Posted on 12/06/2006 9:58:46 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o
Eat right. Avoid cigarettes. ...college kids hear this wisdom from their university health-services and wellness officials.
However, it is unlikely that these same students will hear this gem: “Casual sexual liaisons on college campuses are hazardous, especially for young women."
[snip] In Unprotected, Dr. Grossman posits that one reason college health services are inundated with depression, eating disorders, and sexually transmitted diseases is that health professions have failed to address the medical and psychological risks of unrestrained sexual behavior. She also presents the effects of sexual license on long-term infertility in women, the effects of abortion on the mental health of women (and men)... topics ...ignored by today’s psychiatric profession.
Another hot-button issue Dr. Grossman ... notes that she cannot respond to her HIV positive patients as aggressively as those with TB. In the case of the latter, physicians are required to report an occurrence to public health officials, and the law mandates treatment. Not so with HIV.
…if standard public health measures had been applied to the control of HIV, perhaps my [HIV] patient might already have [been] tested and on drugs that might add years to his life. Isn’t it worth the risk of feeling judged?
... she wonders why university physicians in this country do not focus on those who are the most at-risk — patients who engage in anal sex, share needles and have partners that may have done those things. ...
Lest Dr. Grossman be dismissed as homophobic or insensitive to stigma, her concern is with behaviors and not orientation. She wants to prolong the life and well-being of her homosexual patients, not condemn them to a shortened life of false security. Homosexual attraction is not the issue here; being ill-informed and behaving foolishly is.
(Excerpt) Read more at gcc.savvior.com ...
Oh goodness no we wouldn't want that. /sarc
I've always thought that if aliens came to earth and observed our culture for a little while, they might well conclude that the institutions known as "colleges/universities" exist primarily to give young adults the opportunity to have lots of sex, with some light book-reading and such on the side.
When I was a boy, colleges were expected to act in loco parentis. That was the assumption until the Great Cultural Revolution, when spineless presidents and deans gave way to the students and basically let them do whatever they wanted.
Now we have faculty who in many cases actively encourage students to do whatever they want.
It's too bad. Sure, in the old days kids got drunk and misbehaved, but they knew in some corner of their minds that they were doing wrong. Now, they are simply told to express themselves and do whatever they like. The more the merrier, until they wake up to hangovers and STDs and burnt out feelings.
I was depressed in college because I wasn't getting ENOUGH sex.
Poor boy. Happier now?
Poor boy. Happier now?
Add cancer to the list of possible consequences. Almost all cervical cancer is related to human papilloma virus (HPV). A 46-year-old male relative was recently diagnosed with an HPV-related tonsillar cancer. He's headed for some very nasty radiotherapy, and -- from what I read -- he has about a 30% chance of dying in the next five years.
"...colleges were expected to act in loco parentis. That was the assumption until the Great Cultural Revolution, when spineless presidents and deans gave way to the students and basically let them do whatever they wanted."
I am a female, and I attended a small, private college. When I started in the fall of 1969, the girls had a 10:00 p.m. curfew on weeknights and 12:00 midnight curfew on the weekends. The dorm doors were locked after curfew. We also had to sign out when we left the dorm and sign back in when we returned. Boys could not go any further then the lobby. By the time I graduated in 1973, the girls' dorms were no longer locked and boys could come and go as they wished. They had not progressed to mixed-sex dorms, but the decade was still young.
Yes, a familiar experience. I knew a number of people in academia at that time. The deans who went with the flow survived, and those who objected were removed from office. University presidents were suffering burnout all over the place, and many could only stand it only for a few years. When things finally started settling down, there was a new pattern in place, with liberal deans and faculty, presidents who didn't dare stand up to the students, the women's movement giving instructions (meaning the lefitst lesbians, basically), and a bias toward continual incremental movement toward the left.
I remember when the dean on my campus wore a leisure suit to work, to assure the more revolutionary students that he was on their side. Later he reverted to suits, but continued down the same path and became president of the university over the heads of more qualified candidates.
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