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Sunday, November 30, 2008 Reaping The Consequences The latest article posted by the AP (Associated Press) stated that about 26 percent of New York City adults have genital herpes, compared to about 19 percent nationwide. My friend, this is only the tip of the decadent iceberg! The New York Health Department stated that genital herpes can double a person's risk for contracting HIV. The rate of contracting herpes is highest among New Yorkers, women, gay men and black people. My beloved, one-in-four New Yorkers has herpes!!! That's 2,000,000 individuals! This statistic should frighten and alarm any sane individual. How can...

A city Health Department study finds that more than a fourth of adult New Yorkers are infected with the virus that causes genital herpes. The study, released Monday, says about 26 percent of New York City adults have genital herpes, compared to about 19 percent nationwide.

Advocates for same-sex marriage should feel embarrassed by current efforts to recycle the three most discredited ideas of the “Free Love” Revolution of the 1960’s. Most Americans look back at the radical notions of that rebellious and drug-soaked era with skepticism and discomfort, if not outright regret. The sweeping changes in intimate relationships may have provoked excitement some forty years ago, but those alterations produced so many painful costs in terms of shattered families, degraded culture and proliferation of sexually transmitted diseases that even the most enthusiastic revolutionaries have come to reconsider the advisability of encouraging copulation without consequences or...

In the rooms of Manhattan's trendy Soho Grand Hotel guests can enjoy an eclectic selection of underground music, iPod docking stations, flat-screen TVs and even the living company of a complimentary goldfish. But, alas, the word of God is nowhere to be found. Unlike traditional hotels, the 10-year-old boutique has never put Bibles in its guest rooms, because "society evolves," says hotel spokeswoman Lori DeBlois. Providing Bibles would mean the hotel "would have to take care of every guest's belief." What might be surprising to many Americans is that the Bible-free room isn't a development just in hip New York...

The 60s sexual revolution was in full bloom as I headed to college in 1969. Founded on a new definition of happiness ... the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow ... the revolution spawned a new vocabulary. Words birthed in the sexual revolution ... liberation, freedom, self-expression, empowerment ... all of these defined the supposed rewards of releasing strictures and limits of a more "primitive world" imposed on human behavior. We demanded a better happiness. Anything goes. If it feels good, do it. No limits. No fear. A new kind of happiness at the end of the...

Much clucking behind television anchor desks follows the airing of popular internet footage of girl fights. After repeated displays of adolescent girls slapping each other, pulling hair, and ripping off clothes, news anchors wonder out loud about the reasons for their popularity among YouTube and other internet viewers. It’s no big secret: This is a genre of pornography. The occasional tough-girl fight on school grounds that one came across with flinching embarrassment is now captured by a video camera for the titillation of millions of sick viewers. The violence factor and the authenticity of the fight are the draws that...

A married couple who had sex in front of a nine-year-old girl who was forced to watch on a webcam in the United States were both jailed for 10 years. Denise and Ronald Edwards of Cinderford, Gloucestershire, also encouraged a paedophile in New York to abuse the child as they watched online. Videos and CDs carrying images of children being abused were also later found by police at the Edwards’ home, along with a webcam in 2004. Mr Edwards, 54, admitted engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a girl, causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual...

It's hard to believe that, in 2007, you can put 1,000 adults in one room and nobody is divorced. But that was the scene yesterday in the polished magnificence of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Northeast Washington, where more than 500 married couples from throughout Maryland and the District gathered to renew their wedding vows. And these weren't vows they had originally made five or 10 years ago. We're talking Olympic-level marriage achievement here. The ceremony for Catholic couples, hosted by the Archdiocese of Washington, was for couples who had been married 25 years...

Newly bald Britney Spears has checked herself back into rehab after a weekend of excessive partying and unsavoury exhibitionism, just another young woman self-destructing in front of our eyes. There has been no sign of the 25-year-old singer's two young sons amid the crotch-flashing, mascara-smeared, vomit-specked nightclubbing that preceded her impulsive head-shave at a Los Angeles salon - an act psychologists have interpreted as an existential cry for help. But Spears's meltdown is more than just her personal tragedy. Sexualised almost since her days as a Disney child star, she is the canary in the coalmine of troubled young womanhood....

There they go again. The liberal media, it seems, likes nothing better than to play up what they see (or create) as divisions in the evangelical ranks. This Sunday’s New York Times featured a front-page story about Gregory Boyd, an evangelical pastor in Minnesota who is highly critical of the religious right and refuses to talk about abortion or other cultural war issues from his pulpit. The article paints him in heroic terms, willing to stand against the tide. It quotes other Christian leaders who support him, but none of those who might give the other point of view. It...

WASHINGTON, D.C., June 23, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A medical journalist has added her voice to claims that the explosion in HIV/AIDS infection rates is directly linked to reliance on condom use as a virus preventative.Writing for Crisis Magazine, prize-winning investigative journalist Sue Ellin Browder said the growing consensus among public health professionals is that condoms should only be used as a last measure of protection for persons involved in extremely high-risk activity such as sex-trade work.Zenit News Agency reported yesterday on Browder’s conclusions. “So far, there’s no good evidence that condoms will reverse population-wide epidemics like those in sub-Saharan...

THE permissive revolution has almost wiped out differences in sexual habits between men and women, according to a comprehensive study of sex lives over nearly 60 years. The researchers argue that this has come about because women’s sexual attitudes and experience have been transformed, while men’s have hardly changed since the 1940s. They find a near-quadrupling in the proportion of teenage women who are sexually active, while the age at which they lose their virginity has fallen by four years. Guilt about sex has declined sharply, while attitudes to premarital sex have reversed since the 1940s — slightly more men...

Real men -- good men -- take responsibility for the children they father. If they get a woman pregnant, they do the right thing: They stand by her. They support their child. They don't try to weasel out of a situation they co-authored. They shoulder the obligations of fatherhood, even if they hadn't planned on becoming a father. Once upon a time, men confronted with news of an unintended pregnancy knew what was expected of them. More often than not, they married the woman who was carrying their child; for those tempted to behave irresponsibly, society devised the shotgun wedding....

Before launching into his “research” on human sexuality, Dr. Alfred Kinsey was a confirmed atheist, eugenicist and evolutionist who believed that “religious-based,” “ancient taboos” were to blame for America’s supposedly repressive sexual attitudes and resulting social disorder. The unsuspecting victim of Kinsey’s sexual revolution bomb, America respected fatherhood, motherhood and marriage, and protected its children. Kinsey saw any sexual taboo as abnormal repression and set out, by using science, to break down those barriers to sexual “freedom.” He used and abused science much as the South Korean researcher Hwang did by claiming to have achieved human cloning. Ideas and...

Last week I suggested that the sexual revolution was really homosexual in character, and it signaled a severe social and cultural decline. The celebrated "Kinsey Report" (1948) authored by the gay pedophile Dr. Alfred Kinsey, convinced Americans that sexual license is healthy and normal. Hugh Hefner based PLAYBOY on Kinsey's assumptions and convinced men to substitute lust for love. Later, in this column, I will describe the effect this had on my life. As Mathew Arnold pointed out, culture requires the subordination of animal instincts to spiritual ideals. Specifically, culture is founded on restricting sexuality to love which leads to ...

Not long after an affirming treatment by Hollywood, the life of the "father of the sexual revolution," Alfred Kinsey, is about to be feted on Broadway. The musical "Dr. Sex" is scheduled to run Aug. 26 to Oct. 30 at the Peter Norton Space in New York City, according to BroadwayWorld.com Production notes call "Dr. Sex" the "cleanest show about sex in the history of musical comedy." The movie "explores the loving relationship between Dr. Alfred Kinsey, his wife, Clara ... and their handsome boyfriend (and lab assistant), Wally Matthews." Brian Noonan of "The Phantom of the Opera" and "Les...

Gingerly, Kathleen Thoren's family gathered around her in the intensive care unit, unable to speak to their beloved sister, daughter, wife, or even stroke her hands. The slightest stimulation might create a fatal amount of pressure on the 25-year-old woman's swollen brain, warned the doctors. "We were horrified, but we tried to just quietly be with her," said her sister Erika Klein. "In the end, it didn't help." The mother of three died last fall, just after Thanksgiving, after days of agonizing headaches that the coroner's report said were brought on by hormones released into her system by Ortho Evra,...

Golly durn! I read it in the New York Times. It must be true! Here's the story, anyway: Princeton University -- Princeton, jot that down -- has a brand-new 80-member group, the Anscombe Society -- and it's not a Southern Baptist group either -- that promotes discussion of chastity and abstinence from premarital sex. Discussion of if not indeed adherence to. Wow! Princeton! Ivy League! Cutting edge! Abstinence. There's some disconnect there -- a disconnect entirely wondrous and wonderful to behold. We have heard in latter years of religious groups (ex. True Love Waits) collecting pledges of abstention from premarital...

Tony Blair today launched an extraordinary attack on the decline of the traditional family and the rise of "different lifestyles". In a speech which risked a backlash from single parents' groups and Labour MPs, the Prime Minister said the culture of the "Swinging Sixties" was partly to blame for crime and social breakdown. "A society of different lifestyles spawned a group of young people who were brought up without parental discipline, without proper role models and without any sense of responsibility to others," said Mr Blair. "All of this was then multiplied in effect by the economic and social changes...

Antibiotic-resistant strain of syphilis is spreading A fast-spreading mutant strain of syphilis has proved resistant to the antibiotic pills that are offered to some patients as an alternative to painful penicillin shots. Since the late 1990s, doctors and public health clinics have been giving azithromycin to some syphilis patients because the long-acting antibiotic pill was highly effective and easy to use. Four pills taken at once were usually enough to cure syphilis. But now researchers at University of Washington in Seattle have found at least 10 percent of syphilis samples from patients at sexually transmitted disease clinics in four cities...

Has any generation in history ever banged on about itself more and with less merit than the baby boomers? Oh good, another 1960s retrospective. And another. And another. You can't move for celebrations of "the decade that changed the world forever". Tate Britain is honouring the art of the swinging decade in an exhibition starting at the end of the month. BBC Four is a week into its Summer in the Sixties season, while the Sunday Times magazine is devoting acres to the 10 years that shook the planet. Why this surge of interest? Has a milestone passed? Or is...

It is extremely challenging for conservative college students to pop the bubble of political correctness that surrounds them, and when they do speak, you seldom hear about it. But I have good news for you. More and more students are refusing to take assaults on family values sitting down. For example, on April 15, a young group of College Republicans at Shippensburg University, Pennsylvania, organized a day of support for traditional marriage. Looking for reinforcements, the College Republicans invited members of TFP Student Action to join in their efforts. Shippensburg College Republicans had a table inside the CUB Great Hall...

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - The Internet has played a significant role in the latest increase in cases of syphilis among gay men by introducing partners more likely to practice high-risk sex, according to a study released on Wednesday. About 22 percent of homosexual men diagnosed with early stage syphilis reported meeting one or more of their sexual partners through the Internet around the time they were infected, said the study by the Los Angeles Health Department. Researchers at a national conference in Philadelphia on the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases also said they found gays who used the Web to meet...

Today during our church services we held a combined meeting of all of the adult men and women who were not involved teaching our primary aged (2-11) and youth aged (12-18) children. I wanted to report to FR about the meeting and the content and its impact. The meeting had been planned for some time to view the video" "Sex has a price tag" A lot of thought and prayer went into presenting this video and its content. We wanted the adult thoughts on this before we hold a meeting for all of the youth in our congregation. The video...

<p>A campaign to market a new line of condoms to teens has some people wondering if it's conveying a message that condom use — and, in essence, sex — is cool for kids.</p> <p>Jimmie Hatz condoms (search) — "jimmie hat" is a hip-hop slang word for condom — are slated to hit some store shelves Feb. 1 and are aimed at urban teens across the country. The company that produces the condoms says it's promoting safe sex, but critics decry the idea of marketing contraceptives directly to teens in a way that seems "hip."</p>

For the past weeks, the media have been gaga over the 50th anniversary of Playboy magazine and the "Playboy philosophy," whose guru, Hugh Hefner, began to mainstream pornography and de-couple sex from a committed marital relationship. What interested me most about this latest excuse to run pictures of almost naked women on television and of the 77-year-old Hugh Hefner in his silk pajamas, surrounded by surgically enhanced women young enough to be his great-granddaughters, was the usual media complicity in promoting a one-sided and incomplete picture of the "free love" generation (which, as it turned out, was neither free nor...

Just as human nature has inherent purpose, so does human sexuality. There is a natural sexual order, a proper order for love — an ordo amorum, as St. Augustine put it. We are made male and female, and these immutable characteristics define proper sexual behavior. Because this proper sexual behavior quite commonly results in childbearing, these characteristics also define the appropriate relationship for sexual behavior: marriage. In marriage alone do men, women and children find the relationship that balances their sometimes mutual, sometimes competing, needs. "Marriage is our attempt to reconcile and harmonize the erotic, social, sexual and financial needs...

I never liked the title of Rabbi Dresner's book. It was called Can Families Survive in Pagan America? and was published in 1995 by Huntington House out of Lafayettte, Louisiana. I got a copy just as I was starting Culture Wars, a magazine that ran concurrently with Fidelity and eventually superseded it. I liked Dresner's book because it fit in perfectly with the idea of Culture Wars at the time. Both the magazine and the book were meditations on the moral basis for America, which as anyone who is familiar with American history knows, is the only basis for America....

<p>About 15 demonstrators gathered at the end of a cordoned-off block of Stelle Avenue, where a crew is filming part of the movie "Kinsey," starring Liam Neeson as well-known human sex researcher Alfred Kinsey.</p> <p>Protester Mary Forester talks to an unidentified film crew member in Plainfield Wednesday as Bonnie Huebner, right, holds a sign denouncing the movie “Kinsey,” based on well-known human sex researcher Alfred Kinsey.</p>

WILL someone please stop the sexual revolution? I want to get off. It was fun at first. In the 1960s and '70s, my forebears burned their bras and dressed badly. Determined to look like men, they shouted that gender was a filthy figment of our imagination as they pushed down the barricades of female stereotypes. Twenty years later, underwear intact and riding the tailwind of their efforts, women such as me confidently strode into the workplace. Now, like the last, excessive days of Caligula's Rome, things are going awry. The feminist-driven gender quake unearthed a topsy-turvy legacy. He's called Metrosexual...

<p>Since fashions have been going retro -- from hip-huggers and halter tops to the recent '60s nostalgia hit ``Down With Love'' -- perhaps it was inevitable that ``Sex and the Single Girl'' would make a big comeback this summer. Barricade Books has dusted off Helen Gurley Brown's 1962 bestseller, given it a hot-pink cover and marketed it as ``A Cult Classic.''</p>

He is fastidious about his appearance, his home and his possessions. He wants as much sex as possible and chooses sexual partners mostly on the basis of appearance. He is self-absorbed and doesn't want emotional involvement or commitment. He thinks a woman would stifle him and children would be a burden. Does this sound like many gays? It is also the masculine ideal purveyed by Playboy magazine to men since the 1950's. The essence of manhood is to lead and support a family. But in 1972, 3 out of 4 male college students got their ideas about masculinity from Playboy,...

The ruling earlier this week by a Canadian appeals court that legalized same-sex marriages in Canada is only the beginning. In one sense, it's no surprise: Public acceptance of homosexual behavior has been growing. A majority of Canadians favor the court's decision. Well, can't happen here, you say. But indeed, it can if public pressure demands it. And support for homosexual rights is growing in the United States just like Canada. Between 1973 and 1993, the percentage of Americans saying that homosexual relations were "always wrong" ranged between 66 and 70 percent. But by 2000, only 54 percent said that...

Sex and the Party Are the Republicans on the threshold of becoming a true majority party for an extended period of time? That's a hot topic in political circles these days. Much of the discussion was kicked off by the uncharacteristically well-publicized internal poll done by the Democratic National Committee, which the DNC's spin doctors just couldn't make look good for their side, no matter how hard they worked at it. The New York Times' Adam Clymer followed that with an article in which he called the Democrats "an awkward coalition whose clan chiefs have not yet gotten over the...

Vegetarianism, Anti-Capitalism, Pacifism, Anti-death-penalty-ism, Nudism, the Sexual Revolution and Liberalism: The Common Link The anti-capitalism/world bank protests of recent years, and the current protests against the looming war with Saddam's Iraq, along with various other '60s era sentiments controlling many in our generation all over the world, have brought up the question: What do these freaks all have in common? A straight-forward answer is this: All reject the classic theological principal, held by traditional Christians of various denominations the world over, of original sin. America's founding fathers, while not all churchmen--or committed Christians (though with a lot fewer (if any...

BC launches initiative The Church in the 21st Century By Mark Cichra Kenneth Woodward, right, consults with Father Leahy during Wednesday´s opening program Conte Forum became the site of a national news event last Wednesday as over 4000 people from the media, the university community, and the public converged to attend a lecture and panel discussion titled "From Crisis to Renewal: The Task Ahead." The event marked the beginning of BC's new Church in the 21st Century initiative. This project, announced in May, will last two years and will include lectures, forums, classes, and other events held for the purpose...

Whenever cloning is in the news, it is usually mentioned that there are "ethical concerns" surrounding the cloning of human beings. Less often, maybe never, the writer tells us what these concerns are. Why would cloning a person be considered "unethical?" Who does it hurt? Sometimes someone will ask whether a cloned human being would have a soul? But that's not a very helpful question to raise. Why wouldn't he have a soul? And if he didn't, who would know? In fact, there are more substantive issues raised by cloning, issues that affect society and everyone in it on a...

THE "sexual revolution" of the 1960s took place because of a shortage of men rather than the implementation of liberal social policies, according to a book by a leading American conservative. James Q Wilson, a former Harvard professor, claims that the "Swinging Sixties" did not represent a radical break with the past but can be explained by the ratio of men to women. "Whatever the Sixties did, it is hard to find much evidence that they created the divorce revolution," he says in The Marriage Problem. Wilson, who visited Britain last year for a seminar on the family at the...