A 61-year-old chemical engineering professor has reportedly been suspended from his job for appearing in a series of porn films with women roughly 40 years younger than he is.

The professor and porn thespian is Nicholas Goddard, reports Metro, a tabloid newspaper out of the United Kingdom.

By day, for over two decades, Goddard has belonged to the faculty at the University of Manchester. From his academic perch, he has published myriad scholarly papers.

For 10 years or so, Goddard has also been moonlighting in the porn industry as “Old Nick.” The specialty of the sexagenarian — absolutely no pun intended — is sex romps with young porn starlets.

Goddard’s smut films include “Blonde teen Lexi gets fucked by Old Nick” and “Busty teen Lolly fuck old Nick outdoors.”

The collection of skin flicks, collectively called “Beauty and the Senior,” has been viewed by over a million avid porn consumers on websites such as Pornhub.

An intrepid reporter from the Daily Mail, another British newspaper, has since reported that the Oxford-educated porn professor’s $50,000 Audi was not parked in its normal spot this week.

No official word has come from University of Manchester officials, but the scuttlebutt on campus is that Goddard has been suspended pending a thorough investigation.

Goddard’s double life apparently came crashing down when someone recognized him in one of his “Old Nick” films.

The divorced father of three has defended himself, suggesting that stress from a divorce initially impelled him to take on his second career. He also swore he will no longer be having sex on camera with women young enough to be his grandchildren.

“I don’t get paid much, mainly travel expenses,” Goddard told the Mail.

“Sometimes you do things that you regret later while under stress. But I’ve given it up since January. It’s too much for me now. What I do in my private life is my business not the university’s.”

Goddard also indicated that he believes starring in pornography is no different than watching it.

“There is such hypocrisy with people watching porn then complaining about those who act in it,” he said, according to Metro.

“Why would students and staff be happy to watch it, but unhappy when they see who stars in them?”

Professors in the news over pornography are not uncommon.

Last spring, Drexel University School of Law professor Lisa McElroy sent students a video link of an explicit porn video. “I thought this article on brief writing would be interesting to all of you,” the text of McElroy’s email with the video link read. McElroy later defended herself in The Washington Post’s op-ed section, angrily denouncing journalists who “ran with this story because they knew they would get page views.” (RELATED: Law Professor Emails SHOCKING Porn Video To Entire Class)

At the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, tenure-track English professor has made a splash for writing randy “Prof. Poon-Tang” poetry with titles including “Ménage à Bush twins” and “Did I Shave My Nuts For This?” (RELATED: Meet UNC-Wilmington’s Porn-Loving English Professor)

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