This past summer, I spent a fantastic weekend as one of about 40 international students who attended the Ruth Institute’s “It Takes a Family” 2011 conference (ITAF). While there, I met two students from the University of Pittsburgh, Joseph Petrich and Alex Souchuns. Both are involved in the Anscombe Society on campus, with Joseph the current president. The Anscombe Society is connected with the Love & Fidelity Network and seeks to educate and raise awareness on issues of life, fidelity, love, and sex within marriage. These groups are beginning to crop up on campuses across the country, and while they may go by any number of names, their purpose is the same. In a culture that seeks to remove all boundaries on sex and encourages college students to simply practice ‘safe’ sex, these students call their peers to something better, something higher, something that is the best for not only their body, but also their heart. Read more…
This used to be called prostitution–now it’s just debt reduction:
…There is a plethora of on-line dating sites, calling themselves arrangement sites, where young women looking to pay down college debt are matched to older, wealthy donors. What is not advertised, but is clearly understood by reading young women’s confessionals in a recent Huffington Post piece about “sugar daddies” and the financially beleaguered “sugar baby” girls, is that these arrangements are for paid sex, and the industry is booming. Read more…
Okay, I need to understand this ‘victory,’” Jeannie started in. The governor of our state had just signed legislation stripping abortion giant Planned Parenthood of about $4 million in annual taxpayer funding. “First, you do not want to teach sex-ed and provide condoms in schools. Second, you do not want to fund an organization that provides contraception to prevent pregnancy. And you do not want abortion as an option. Do you really think that more teens will practice abstinence because of this?” Read more…
Cardinal Hall at Catholic University of America, Brookland neighborhood, Washington. Another school year is in full swing. Frat houses around the country are once again swollen with partygoers and intoxicated youth. Sunday mornings once again mark the regret of thousands of young women who hooked-up the night prior and either cannot remember what they did, or do remember and are trying to forget. Read more…
Advice to incoming freshmen — from someone with experience. Oct. 23 issue feature.
by ASHLEY CROUCH
The parting words of a friend still rang in my ears, “You have your whole life ahead of you. The world at your feet.” I mustered up all the wisdom I possessed from my 18 years, gathered my bags and set off hundreds of miles to a foreign and exciting new destination: college. Read more…
A group of individuals have come together on campus with the intent of reminding Eastern of what they said is a forgotten value: marriage between a man and a woman.
The group, Love and Truth, was approved by Student Life two weeks ago and immediately began advertising and recruiting around campus several planned events this year. Read more…
Last week I mentioned that the number of centenarians is predicted to increase to over one million in five different countries by 2100. I thought that this was, in part at least, a testimony to better medical practices and aged care in many parts of the world. Read more…
Across the nation, and especially in communities that attract a lot of older Americans, the free-love generation is continuing to enjoy an active — if not always healthy — sex life. Read more…
A new book shows that premarital sex has almost nothing to do with marriage – at least, not a happy one.
It’s complicated.
More than a Facebook relationship status, “it’s complicated” sums up the ambiguity, fluidity, and contradictions experienced by “emerging adults” in America–at least when it comes to sex and relationships. What’s simple are the numbers: 84 per cent of unmarried, heterosexual, emerging adults (ages 18-23) in America have had sex—a number that cuts a wide swath across religious denominations, political leanings, family backgrounds, education levels, and geographic regions. Read more…
The essential purpose and reason behind both the social and sacramental institution of marriage is threatened by cohabitation, contraception, artificial reproductive technology, divorce and same sex unions, said the speakers at the Love and Life in the Divine Plan Marriage and Family Conference held at Aquinas College Feb. 25-26.
“Contraception has made our culture believe that babies are a burden rather a blessing, that every baby that’s born is a threat to the well-being of the world and to our share of the piece of the pie,” said Dr. Janet Smith, an instructor at Sacred Heart Seminary in Detroit, a widely-published expert on the Catholic teachings on sexuality and bioethics, and one of the conference speakers. Read more…
Interesting survey. (Readers caution: different categories of “activity” are discussed–be advised.)
ATLANTA – Fewer teens and young adults are having sex, a government survey shows, and theories abound for why they’re doing it less. Experts say this generation may be more cautious than their predecessors, more aware of sexually spread diseases. Or perhaps emphasis on abstinence in the past decade has had some influence.
Or maybe they’re just too busy.
“It’s not even on my radar,” said 17-year-old Abbey King of Hinsdale, Ill., a competitive swimmer who starts her day at 5 a.m. and falls into bed at 10:30 p.m. after swimming, school, weight lifting, running, more swimming, homework and a volunteer gig working with service dogs for the disabled. Read more…
“Girl power” might have brought women and girls victories in academics and sports but, as a recent book out of the University of Texas reports, an unintended consequence of women’s success has given men a leg up in the game of love.
Based on research published in their new book,“Premarital Sex in America: How Young Americans Meet, Mate and Think About Marrying,” Mark Regnerus and Jeremy Uecker, sociologists from the University of Texas at Austin, have found that with women becoming more educated and professionally successful than ever, it has become extremely difficult for them to find a committed man. Read more…
People in non-romantic sexual relationships today are likely to have multiple partners, researchers have found, and that behavior could promote the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, they note.
“The United States has seen a major shift toward non-romantic sexual partnerships — people becoming sexually involved when they are just casually dating or not dating at all,” study author Anthony Paik, a sociologist at the University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said in a university news release. Read more…
It’s not a new theory: As women progress in educational and professional opportunities, their odds of finding a committed man appear to go down. Women in their 40s and 50s have long heard this, but new research finds it’s true for women just entering adulthood as well.
That’s one of the findings in the new book “Premarital Sex in America: How Young Americans Meet, Mate and Think About Marrying,” by researchers Mark Regnerus and Jeremy Uecker at the University of Texas at Austin.
They looked at the results from a number of national studies including the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health and the National Study of Youth and Religion, in addition to interviews with young people ages 18 to 23. Read more…
When I heard the trailer for this movie on pandora, my first thought was, “What a piece of trash.” My second thought was, “. . . . No, my first thought was correct.”
Here’s the premise: two friends decide to sleep together. Not because they like each other in that way, mind you, but because they want sex and are willing to provide that service for each other “no strings attached.”
The article is about a guy who’s fathered up to 15 kids by the age of 25. There are potentially ten women involved.
I am completely mystified as to why these women are willing to bear his children. He’s not handsome, he’s not rich, he’s not employed… what is the attraction for SO many woman toward one seemingly undesirable man?
I’m wondering what you all think. What is nature’s purpose for sex? I think nature intended sex for procreation. I base this on the physiology of the act.
When man has an orgasm, he ejaculates a fluid known as semen. Within the semen are sperm, which are reproductive cells. The sperm are ½ of the component necessary to create human life within the female body. Read more…
“Rights Drunk!!” I’ve encountered such people. Not just consumers, but people so obsessed with having others satisfy their supposed “rights” that they would destroy all manner of societal institutions at untold cost.
Dr. J. has previously compared our modern hookup culture to “consumer sex.” Considering our modern obsession with “consumer rights” we can see how dangerous this idea can be.
Her post yesterday addressed the problem of judging the character of men who maintain friendships with cads, with men who use women for mere sexual pleasure.
No one approves of anyone using anyone else for anything, no less free sexual favors.
And yet, the hookup culture exists, to the point where it appears to have supplanted the dating culture, and the reason is that women allow it to exist. Read more…
The other topic is the (linked but distinct) practice of “hooking up,” which is arguably much more harmful than commonly recognized–disproportionately harming young women; encouraging male irresponsibility, selfishness, and lack of empathy or love; degrading human sexuality into a less than fully human activity that engages the whole person; and undermining marriage and family by detaching love and commitment from sex; and so forth. Read more…
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This past summer, I spent a fantastic weekend as one of about 40 international students who attended the Ruth Institute’s “It Takes a Family” 2011 conference (ITAF). While there, I met two students from the University of Pittsburgh, Joseph Petrich and Alex Souchuns. Both are involved in the Anscombe Society on campus, with Joseph the current president. The Anscombe Society is connected with the Love & Fidelity Network and seeks to 
educate and raise awareness on issues of life, fidelity, love, and sex within marriage. These groups are beginning to crop up on campuses across the country, and while they may go by any number of names, their purpose is the same. In a culture that seeks to remove all boundaries on sex and encourages college students to simply practice ‘safe’ sex, these students call their peers to something better, something higher, something that is the best for not only their body, but also their heart. Read more…
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