The Ontario College of Teacher’s former discipline chair is facing charges of professional misconduct for authoring a soft porn book containing “sexually explicit content” involving Grade 9 students and negative descriptions of teachers.

Jacques Tremblay’s role at the college and his co-authorship of The Sexteens and the Fake Goddess were exposed in a 2011 Toronto Star investigation.Tremblay resigned his role as discipline chair almost immediately and the college began a probe.

No date has been set for his hearing. Tremblay did not respond to a request for comment.

His book is a lurid tale of striptease, breast fondling, bum grabbing, orgasms, drugs and blackmail that features a deputy headmaster who sweeps a sex assault under the carpet and tells male students at a pep rally that if he were younger he would have sex with all the girls in the audience. Another teacher gives a boy advice on French kissing and as the plot unfolds we learn that the deputy headmaster (Harry Dick) and a third teacher once had a threesome with a female student.

In the notice of hearing in the Tremblay case, college investigators accuse him of “dishonourable” conduct and allege the book includes “sexualized descriptions of students.”

Tremblay “permitted the marketing of the novel to teenagers . . . despite the fact that he knew or ought to have known that material in the novel was inconsistent with the standards, values or goals of the teaching profession and/or the education system,” according to allegations filed by the teacher regulator.

Until his resignation, Tremblay had presided over cases that dealt with teachers alleged to have violated the trust of students and the public through sexual assault, verbal and physically abusive attacks, or incompetent behaviour.

The Star uncovered Tremblay’s book and his role on the committee as part of an investigation into the way discipline was carried out at the college. The Star found the college was increasingly shielding bad teachers by keeping their names secret. The secrecty policy changed following the Star investigation.

Tremblay, who has for years been a teacher in Eastern Ontario, was chair of the discipline committee from 2006 to 2011. The Sexteens was published in 2008.

In 2011, Tremblay told the Star that his work as an author was separate from his “public interest” work at the College. He said The Sexteens book “is meant to empower teenagers, to encourage them to be strong and resist or avoid peer pressure,” and that the book has “been endorsed by parents and educators.”

The book was co-written with two others, one of them Tremblay’s wife. It is still available on Amazon.ca, where a review notes: “This is a great book, but one of the authors was fired. He was the person in charge of disciplinary action against teachers in Toronto Canada. Writing about teenagers having sex with teachers was too much for the public to accept from someone that works in a job related to education.”