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Posted on 12/06/2006 9:58:42 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.
It's politically incorrect to tell the kids that abstinence is 100% effective in preventing STD's and pregnancy.
She's a 'hater'! [/Libspeak]
very simple: professors and administrators either engage, or desire to engage in this sort of behavoir (drugs and sex), especially with students.
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