I must have missed the promiscuity party when I went to UK back in the '70s.
They said this with a straight face? The parents of this generation were the post-pill, pre-HIV, in most cases pre-Herpes free love pot smoking generation. (By that point, pot had migrated from the leftover hippies into the frat and sorority houses). Any parents who claim to be shocked are deeply in denial about their own generation.
I am never at ease with this type of writing. It is nothing more than a rumor being used to promote this book and make for an exciting lead for the article.
I go to the number 3 (or something like that) partying school in the nation, and I dont see anything nearly as bad as the comments being made in this forum. I think there is deep sense of envy by individuals who somehow feel that life passed them by and they missed a certian excitement that they read about, or a deep case of denial of what they took part in during the 60's and 70s.
After graduation, "Let them eat cake".
I have read the "Charlotte Simmons" book----it is disturbing and, based upon what I know from recent college graduates, very accurate. I graduated in 1968 and, believe me, what is going on on campuses now is far worse than it was then---in terms of promiscuity and binge-drinking. I highly recommend the Charlotte Simmons book. Someone posted that this is a way to promote Tom Wolfe's book. But with Mr. Wolfe's history in writing, his book doesn't really need promotion. He may be the greatest American writer of our time.
How different is that from masturbation?
This certainly isn't anything new...
I had two roommates in college (1987, 1988), and both had girlfriends, and cheated on them as if the world were about to end.
One of them picked up clamydia from one of his "hookups," and managed to give it to his girlfriend at home, and three other girls at school.
Another roommate did his best to try finding virgins, con-them, and deflower them, dumping them after the second or third bedding.
I was a returning student, so I didn't hang out with them (they were both freshmen), and when I found out what they were up to, I put in for a transfer to another room, but I was stuck there for the year... And I simply couldn't afford to move off-campus.
Both of these guys were scumbags.
Mark
Ping to self for later pingout.
I think the only difference between now and when I was in college in the 80s is that there are more tatoos, piercings, and VD now.
One contributor is the whole Girls Gone Wild culture, the Spring Break parties, etc. Not hard to imagine what is going to happen following jello wreslting. It is also amazing how "cool" it is for two girls to makeout in public.
Yeah that will look wonderful on their resume.
BUMP
I went to public school and graduated college in the early '80s, and that was enough for me. It seems that things have only gotten worse. My sister, who lives in an upper-class neighborhood, told me that bus-Lewinskys in jr. high is not uncommon.
We're homeschooling through age 18, and then it's off to one of about 10 orthodox Catholic colleges. I can't in good conscience be a party to anything else.