The following comes from an October 19 LifeSiteNews article by Father Mark Hodges:

UCLA paid porn stars $2,250 for giving students an “inside look” at the porn industry.

A spring “workshop” brought James Deen and Tasha Reign along with gay porn performer Colby Keller as a “Porn Panel” for students, with the purpose to “get an inside look into the adult film industry from the stars themselves.”

The UCLA student government organized the panel, paying for it with student fees – and taxpayer dollars.

UCLA officials are defending the panel. Campus Event Commissioner Greg Kalfayan and Student Wellness Commissioner Savannah Baldich co-hosted it, justifying the “Porn Panel” as having “academic value,” according to student newspaper The College Fix.

The two commissioners said that student “wellness” includes such topics as having sex on camera for money: “This event is not only appropriate, it is our … responsibility to put on educational and entertaining events that reach students from diverse backgrounds on topics that affect their health.”

The event, held in the largest lecture hall on campus, was sold out.