Nothing new under the sun...
Posted on 03/21/2006 12:44:48 PM PST by JSedreporter
The pornography that once characterized Times Square in Manhattan and 14th Street, NW, in Washington, D. C. has virtually disappeared from those neighborhoods and moved to college campuses, sometimes literally.
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I spent one Semester at Indiana University and four years at Purdue. I.U. was was a party College.
I think I got my fair share of sex at both places, but "fair share" at Purdue was a Hell of alot less than at I.U.
On the upside, I actually remember the sex at Purdue.
So, you're saying you hung around with the uncool kids?
I don't deny that drinking, drugs and sex were going on in college in any decade anyone might care to mention.
It's the "just as they are today" comment that I think it in error. It's a matter of degree. From what I've seen, the behavior has not (certainly) originated as a "new thing" on college campuses, but has really escalated to a previously unseen degree. But that's just my 30 years of experience talking.
Nothing new under the sun...
I don't believe there is a satisfactory answer to your question. If I say yes, you will assume we were uncool because we were Christians. If I say no, you will assume we were doing bad stuff. So I'll take the fifth!:)
Don't remember the Gays being so prevalent, but a big 10-4 on everything else back in 1969-72.
In my junior college days (as in pre-University, not a college named after me), some of the coolest kids were the children of area pastors. It seems once you got these people out from under the strictures laid on them by their parents they went nuts.
Oh, and by the way, taking the fifth was common then too. 'Course, it usually was fifth of rum or tequila...
Gives new meaning to "bump."
Actually, now that you mention it, we did get caught going to Underground Atlanta and drinking (I was 21 but some were younger). The college wasn't too happy with that little adventure!
For an anti-porn rant, this one is pretty limp.
So that's what they're calling it these days?!?
I, too, will confess to sex in college.
I am happy to report it only started on my honeymoon, and was totally restricted to one woman....
I look at it this way. Most kids are going to have to experiment when they get away from mommy and daddy. Most of us did it to one extent or another. My daughter's going through this right now (she's 20). I've let her know I'm not happy with what she's doing, but she is an adult and she lives on her own, so technically, it's none of my business.
Change that number to 40, and then you're wrong!
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Yea, there was no sex drugs and rocknroll on college campuses during the late 60's. /sarc
This is not about being right or wrong or coming up with a date when everything went to hell. A poster mentioned that colleges were "becoming" an embarrassment, and my point was simply that there has been little if any change in the behavior of college students for at least an entire generation. They are not "becoming" anything. They are what they are and have been now for at least that generation.
JMO.
LOL - and I used to believe parenting got easier as the kids got older. Boy, was I wrong! (22 yr old and 19 yr old twins)
"On the upside, I actually remember the sex at Purdue."
LOL
Although the more I think about it I am not sure that would always be a good thing.
Your assumption, in (to) many cases, is correct.
In some cases, it barely beat, ah, the alternative-wink-wink.
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