University drama students were stunned when their lecturer played them an X-rated video of performance theatre - showing her vagina.
Lauren Barri-Holstein screened a clip of her production Splat!, which features graphic female nudity.
As part of the introductory presentation to her Theatre and its Others module at Queen Mary University of London, the actress and PhD student showed first-year students the explicit material.
The graphic clip was described by Ms Barri-Holstein as "feminist performance art concerned with the female body".
The intimate performance shows her inserting a knife handle into her vagina and throwing red tomatoes at the blade, giving birth to a small, plastic Bambi figurine, and inflating a condom.
Ms Barri-Holstein, creator of theatre company The Famous, said the work - which also shows scenes in which she urinated on stage and dangled naked from a harness - is relevant to her teaching module.
Telegraph
Lauren Barri-Holstein screened a clip of her production Splat!, which features graphic female nudity.
As part of the introductory presentation to her Theatre and its Others module at Queen Mary University of London, the actress and PhD student showed first-year students the explicit material.
The graphic clip was described by Ms Barri-Holstein as "feminist performance art concerned with the female body".
The intimate performance shows her inserting a knife handle into her vagina and throwing red tomatoes at the blade, giving birth to a small, plastic Bambi figurine, and inflating a condom.
Ms Barri-Holstein, creator of theatre company The Famous, said the work - which also shows scenes in which she urinated on stage and dangled naked from a harness - is relevant to her teaching module.
Telegraph
