He definitely overreacted.

Jonathan was expelled from his college for sleeping with the Deans wife but if he thought that was the end of his punishment he was surely mistaken.

As the Dean who had studied a lot of ancient cultures and their rituals turned him into a young woman who was extremely uncomfortable in clothing especially around men & who got hornier and dummer the more times he got sexually aroused.

Before putting him to work as an artist model at his former all male College which drove him nuts being surrounded by so many willing partners that he did not even fantasize about in case he lost what was left of his mind.