Posted on 11/17/2009 12:03:15 PM PST by decimon
It's no secret to students that coed dorms are more fun than same-sex dorms. But they can also fuel very unhealthy behavior that might otherwise be moderated.
A new study finds university students in coed housing are 2.5 times more likely to binge drink every week. And no surprise, they're also likely to have more sexual partners, the study found. Also, pornography use was higher among students in coed dorms.
Some 90 percent of U.S. college dorms are now coed.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
I think this just reflects who chooses to live in a coed dorm, not a causative relationship.
Duhhhhh.
I’m shocked.
I went to a same-gender dorm, but most now aren’t. Granted, I went to a small Christian college.
I can’t imagine the stuff that went on at the coed dorms considering the stuff that went on at our dorm, including women.
Hmm... maybe I shouldn’t have been so adamant about renting a house.
And another installment in today’s media offerings from the startling scientific discoveries genre:
Video report from Dr. Sanjay Gupta headlined “FOOD BLAMED FOR TEEN OBESITY”
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/health/2009/11/17/am.gupta.teen.obesity.cnn
there are tons of things that could influence these findings. did they control for anything or just give out a bunch of surveys?
i think we can throw this study out.
Now that is shocking.
Why else would these dorms be co-ed?
my work computer let’s me get to yahoo stories. smarta$$! heh...
The Army’s switch to coed “dorms”
(rather than all-male or all-female barracks)
has fueled the same “toxic” and highly “combustible” situation, in which countless male and female soldiers end up severely “poisoned” or “burned.”
The Army implemented this ridiulous policy at the same time universities that had switched to coed dorms were reporting skyrocketing rates of substance abuse, sexual assault and rape.
Surprise, surprise: the same damn thing happened in the Army after they followed suit.
either way, this is terrible for women..( and ultimately horrible for men)..
women NEVER do well by lowering their standards and having sex with multiple partners....
it can affect their health, their wealth, their education, their socialization....
but most of all, it affects their self esteem...
no dating...just shacking up...
now someone tell me again how horrible our society treats boys and men....they have got everything they always wanted...a ready supply of weak willed women who to be in the "in" crowd have sex with anybody who asks....
and these very same young men taking advantage of this will probably be the same ones who piss and moan about their future wives, the same group of women who they slept with, drank with, smoked with, drugged up with...
they'll pine about how they wanted a "nice" girl and a "good" girl....
if boys and men want the "nice" girls and the "good" girls they better start behaving like "nice" boys and "good" boys themselves...
We have co ed barracks and will have co ed submarines.
Feel safer now?
I’ll volunteer to do additional research.
So did the government give out a grant for these “researchers” to watch Animal House?
WHERE DO I SIGN UP???
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