by Bill Bumpas
She’s not the first one to challenge teens to remain pure before marriage. But author Elsa Kok Colopy tells OneNewsNow what she’s talking about in her book is real purity — not just about a bunch of” do’s and don’ts.” 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…
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…
By: Jim Tonkowich
“Treat yourself,” my friend said. “It will be a shot in the arm for your marriage.” He was encouraging me to read Pius XI’s December 1930 encyclical, Casti Connubii (Chaste Marriage). As it turns out, it’s more than a treat. It’s strong medicine for what ails marriage more than eighty years after it was penned. Read more…
BYU had a news release recently that drew an interesting conclusion: Trying out a potential marriage partner like you might try out a car before buying it is NOT a good idea or a prudent decision.
The “prevailing wisdom” in the world today is that it is a bit foolish and impulsive to just marry someone you have never lived with, hoping you will be compatible. Read more…
According to an ABC News/Beliefnet poll conducted within the last year, 83% of Americans identify themselves as Christians. Of course, there is a wide range of practices and specific teachings among the varied and various denominations that comprise Christianity in the U.S. Nonetheless, it’s fair to say that America is a predominantly Christian country. So why isn’t that reflected in the sexual mores and practices of teens and twenty-somethings? Read more…
St. Augustine famously said: “Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.” University of Pittsburgh student Joseph Petrich wanted to advocate for chastity now, only to be told by university officialdom that he and his group had to leave.
Maybe he and his friends needed the help of St. Jude Thaddeus, patron saint of lost causes. As it was, they were rebuffed by a bureaucratic display of illiberal liberalism, the sort that is a stickler for rules but not a stickler for free speech.
Whatever one thinks about the practicality or even desirability of chastity, it is a brave act to stand up for sexual purity in a sex-soaked culture, especially on any college campus, ground zero for raging young hormones ready to hook up. It invites ridicule to swim against that tide. Read more…
Stuart Schneiderman explains why people are best served by being judgmental.
On hooking up:
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…
Can this really be true?
I was inclined not to read a press release about new research on the sexual behaviour of Americans until my eye fell on the word “adolescents” and then “abstaining”, so I skipped to that part. Read more…
There is an interesting alignment of seemingly quite different stars in China: Christian-inspired abstinence education and official population policy.
America’s Focus on the Family has won the ear of the Yunnan provincial ministry of education and is training teachers to educate Chinese teenagers about abstaining from sex before marriage, reports the Washington Post. The Chinese government wants young people to delay marriage and having a child, but delaying sex is another matter, especially as the country becomes more urbanised and susceptible to global trends. Read more…
It’s a great way to keep your head clear. But does anybody care, I wonder?
It is always gratifying when research coincides with common sense and everyday experience, as in the case of a new study showing that a relationship in which sexual intimacy is delayed is more likely to endure. Read more…
by Bill Bumpas and Jody Brown
he full results of a national study that favors abstinence education is being withheld from researchers and the public.
The taxpayer-supported survey from 2008 found that around 70 percent of parents and their teenagers believed that teens should wait until marriage to have sex. Despite release of the study’s summary and its highlight at two major public health conferences last year, the Department of Health and Human Services is withholding the full results according to Valerie Huber, executive director of the National Abstinence Education Foundation. Read more…
I’m pretty sure a couple of movies have been made with topics similar to this. The difference here, of course, is this woman’s plan was not for the sake of comedic effect.
by Carolyn Moynihan
Maybe something is changing for the better out there among Generation Y. A British journalist in her early 30s has written a book about renouncing sex for a year in order to get control of her emotional life. It’s called Chastened. Read more…
Way to go, PM! Way to voice your opinion even when it’s so horribly unpopular. . . and when you’re right.
Carolyn Moynihan
Horrors! The next prime minister of Australia might be a man who advocates virginity for young people.
Here is this week’s shock-horror story from Australia: the country’s next prime minister might be a man who advises his daughters not to throw their virginity away on just anyone. Fair go, that’s what he dared to say during an interview with a women’s magazine. You probably heard the resulting outcry in America, above the President’s State of the Union address, above the iPad hysteria: ‘What a chauvinist! What a pontificator! What a hypocrite!’ — to recite only the more flattering epithets. Read more…
Matthew Hanley, Mercatornet.com
World AIDS Day 2009 reminds us once again of the failure of risk reduction strategies.
December 1, 2009 is World AIDS Day — the first in the era of “hope and change”. So it is a particularly good time to ponder how well “risk reduction” measures for AIDS control — the most emphasised approaches to preventing new HIV cases — produce change and generate hope. Read more…
Marcia Segelstein – Guest Columnist -OneNewsNow
Listen up, parents. The goal of sex education is not to prevent unwanted pregnancies and diseases. The goal is to promote sexual freedom.
That may sound outrageous, but it’s the premise of Dr. Miriam Grossman’s new book, You’re Teaching My Child What?, and it’s backed up by plenty of cold, hard facts. Here’s what she writes in the introduction: “From a review of many of today’s sex ed curricula and websites, it would appear that a ‘sexually healthy’ individual is one who has been ‘desensitized,’ who is without any sense of embarrassment or shame (what some might consider ‘modesty’), whose sexuality is always ‘positive’ and ‘open,’ who respects and accepts ‘diverse’ lifestyles, and who practices ‘safer sex’ with every ‘partner.’ This is not about health, folks. This is about indoctrination.” Read more…
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