Best line: “Thanks to a society that no longer believes in healthy boundaries nor explains why they are important, students on college campuses are learning to be experts in infidelity; they are studying how to lie and cheat with their bodies and affections.”
by Viviana M Garcia
Students on college campuses are learning to lie with their bodies and affections, but some are working hard for change. Read more…
Carol Iannone speculates on the connection between the truly gross college movies, and the rise of co-ed dorms:
In the earlier film, (Revenge of the Nerds) when the sexes were still separate, there was perhaps a tinge of sweetness around the idea of the nerds’ longing to have their place on campus, and to have some access to girls who don’t notice them. The girls were objects to be spied on to be sure, but there is a hint of adoration in the spying. In the later films, the girls have become simple whores, ever ready to offer themselves for anything, as if trained in a French brothel. Read more…
We are very excited about our 2nd annual It Takes a Family Conference, for college students August 12-15 here in Southern Caliornia. We have lined up a distinguished and diverse faculty for this long week-end leadership training experience. Dr. Linda Malone-Colon will be covering the social science aspects of marriage. She is chairwoman of the Psychology Department at Hampton University in Virginia. (That is the school that Booker T. Washington graduated from.) She heads the National Center on African American Marriages and Parenting at Hampton. We are very excited to have Dr. Malone-Colon with us this summer!
Students, don’t forget to get your application in! The deadline is Friday, May 21!
CNN has run a story on the movement among college students to shun the hook-up culture prevalent on campuses and encourage dating and abstinence. Read more…
Watch the creation of this amazing student initiative! Over 700 students where involved in making this happen. The Ruth Institute was thrilled to be apart of campus activism.
In the last week or so, Stuart Schneiderman has had a number of very good articles about hooking up. I keep kicking myself for not blogging on them. But his latest article is here.
Take a scene from Sunday morning campus life. A coed has embarked on a walk of shame. As she walks across the campus, dressed as she was for last night’s party, she knows that everyone knows what she was doing the night before.
Does she feel shame because she has done something wrong or because society has a negative attitude toward the free expression of female sexuality? Does she feel shame because she gave it away for free, thus, devalued her sexuality, or because society suffers from a Puritanical intolerance of women’s sexual pleasure?
From there, Schneiderman expertly spins out the issue in various angles. A must read.
Sean Hannity reports that #100 on his list of wasted stimulus money” $219,000 on an academic study of female hook-up patterns at Syracuse University. Note that the professor/principle investigator explains that hooking up is a public health problem, or at the very least, correlated with public health problems. Why, then, do we not discourage hooking up, the way we discourage smoking and driving without seat belts? Instead of spending “stimulus money” to study a preventable public health problem, why not do something to actually prevent the preventable public health problem?
Remember yesterday’s post about Sex Week at Yale? Why aren’t the administrators at Yale taxed for their share of the public health costs they are creating? (This calls to mind a bigger problem: no one makes any money from people living chaste monogamous life-styles, whereas somebody makes money from each and every problem that flows from non-monogamous sex….)
My colleague Jamie Gruber found this and posted it over at the Ruth Youth blog.
The winning essays from the Stand for the Family Symposium are already posted! Great job to Jamie and Betsy for getting those 18 essays up so quickly! There were three categories, with separate judging and prizes: Undergraduate essays, Graduate student essays, and Law student essays. They are all posted at the Marriage Library. Students, you can show your parents and friends your essay!
ME Vote No Left Turns: We cannot make equality include things not encompassed within the natural meaning of equality.
http://bit.ly/3nbDeF8 months ago
ME is close to the margin of victory in CA. Prop 8 won with 52%, the % by which Obama was annointed. Prop 8 however, was considered close. 8 months ago
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