While Al Vernacchio is one of the creepiest characters to have surfaced during the course of this investigation, we may be making a mistake about what "pizza" means to him. Here is what he has to say himself:
"Q: How did you think up the pizza model? What inspired you?
A: The idea for making up a new model started when I began to realize how damaging the baseball model was. Thinking up a new model took several years. Each time I taught a human sexuality class, I would try to think of a different way to explain sexual activity that got away from the baseball model. I don’t remember the exact year that I thought of the pizza model, but it was when I was teaching high school at St. Joe’s Prep (somewhere between 1986 and 1993). In 2000 I was asked to write an article for a human sexuality college text book called Readings in Contemporary Sexuality. This was where the pizza model was first published, although I’d been teaching it in classes for several years before that. Since then it’s also been published as a lesson plan by the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS) and a version of it is is also on the Scarleteen website…but still no Oprah!"
When Mr. Vernacchio devised his "pizza" model, "Cheese Pizza" had most likely not been thought up yet.
Notwithstanding, it could be argued that Mr. Vernacchio is breaking the law by encouraging minors to watch pornography, which is a crime, and that his "sexual education" practices are corrupting the hearts and minds of impressionable youth, though he is far from the only person doing this.
There are some interesting pictures of him on the internet:
"Q: With your friends, is it unhealthy/inappropriate to say that a teacher is attractive?
A: Are you kidding?? Many of us would feel great knowing you think we’re attractive :-)"
http://archive.is/tSqfY#selection-1365.0-1369.87
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While Al Vernacchio is one of the creepiest characters to have surfaced during the course of this investigation, we may be making a mistake about what "pizza" means to him. Here is what he has to say himself:
From Mr. V's blog (http://archive.is/Vummb#selection-225.0-233.338):
"Q: How did you think up the pizza model? What inspired you? A: The idea for making up a new model started when I began to realize how damaging the baseball model was. Thinking up a new model took several years. Each time I taught a human sexuality class, I would try to think of a different way to explain sexual activity that got away from the baseball model. I don’t remember the exact year that I thought of the pizza model, but it was when I was teaching high school at St. Joe’s Prep (somewhere between 1986 and 1993). In 2000 I was asked to write an article for a human sexuality college text book called Readings in Contemporary Sexuality. This was where the pizza model was first published, although I’d been teaching it in classes for several years before that. Since then it’s also been published as a lesson plan by the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS) and a version of it is is also on the Scarleteen website…but still no Oprah!"
When Mr. Vernacchio devised his "pizza" model, "Cheese Pizza" had most likely not been thought up yet.
Notwithstanding, it could be argued that Mr. Vernacchio is breaking the law by encouraging minors to watch pornography, which is a crime, and that his "sexual education" practices are corrupting the hearts and minds of impressionable youth, though he is far from the only person doing this.
There are some interesting pictures of him on the internet:
http://archive.is/ftaP5 http://archive.is/UZfgk http://archive.is/p32dK
There is also some interesting information on his blog, http://blogs.friendscentral.org/9smc/images/ :
"Q: With your friends, is it unhealthy/inappropriate to say that a teacher is attractive? A: Are you kidding?? Many of us would feel great knowing you think we’re attractive :-)" http://archive.is/tSqfY#selection-1365.0-1369.87
http://archive.is/JfnO7#selection-1377.0-1377.97
Some of things on his Twitter feed (https://twitter.com/AlVsexed) are also interesting:
https://twitter.com/SpreadLikeWylde/status/784772593639313409