Posted on 12/14/2006 3:16:48 AM PST by Zakeet
"My patients were hurting, they looked to me and what could I do?" So confesses an anonymous campus physician in the beginning of her startling memoir. Over the course of 200 pages, she tells story after story about suffering young women. If these women were ailing from eating disorders, or substance abuse, or almost any other medical or psychological problem, their university health departments would spring to their aid. "Cardiologists hound patients about fatty diets and insufficient exercise. Pediatricians encourage healthy snacks, helmets and discussion of drugs and alcohol. Everyone condemns smoking and tanning beds."
Unfortunately, the young women described in "Unprotected" have fallen victim to one of the few personal troubles that our caring professions refuse to treat or even acknowledge: They have been made miserable by their "sexual choices." And on that subject, few modern doctors dare express a word of judgment.
(Excerpt) Read more at opinionjournal.com ...
This is another beautiful example of the gifts liberals bring us.
Just read WSJ book review. This is an important book .
Health professionsals are not allowed to notify the local healt department, even to help stem the "global epidemic" that is made so much of whenever there are Republicans or Christians to be bashed.
Sex was never meant to be passed around just to get in practice. It is meant to have some emotional attachment with it. Todays women need to learn one of the basice most Moms used to teach. The girl that passes out her favors is always popular, but she isnt the one most guys want to marry.
As for men with AIDS not being reported to the health department. That is a travesty. IMO they should be tattooed on the forehead or wear a flag. Its amazing that they can pass around a fatal disease like typhoid Mary's and nothing can be done about it.
Thanks for helping with my Christmas list.
Bookmarking so I can find it when I am ready to buy.
Meant to post to you, sorry!
No wonder they are so depressed.
I have one word for these women: Stupid
Sex is supposed to the very last and most important element of a relationship- not the equivalent of a handshake right after you are introduced.
Young women might receive respect if they bothered to demand it.
No wonder they are so depressed.
It comes down to one thing liberals and the Enlightened, refues to believe.
If you set no limits, you have no standards.
I have 3 boys, two who are teenagers, 16 and 15. I constantly talk to them about sex and abstinance. I try to go beyond the pregnancy and STD issues and talk to them on the emotional ones as it pertains to them and to the girls. It is so important to try to teach young people to have more respect for themselves and to not buy into the nonsense that sex is so much fun and everyone should do it. It does go both ways though, as strongly as we send the message to girls, we should be sending the same message to boys. This is one instance of "It's a guy thing" that I find totally unacceptable.
Sounds like a good book to give a college bound young lady.
George Orwell was a prophet. How could he so accurately predict double speak, political correctness and the mind and thought control we see today?
Agreed.
I have one word for these women: Stupid.
Be charitable. They are young, they are on their own without parental supervision for the first time, they were raised without faith or any moral system that told them that what they're doing is wrong. On the contrary, as the article points out, everyone around them and the society as a whole tells them strongly that this is okay. Or not just okay--good.
Sex is supposed to the very last and most important element of a relationship- not the equivalent of a handshake right after you are introduced.
How true!
Young women might receive respect if they bothered to demand it.
No, if a young woman demands respect--that is, if she asks a young man to wait to have sex until she has a wedding ring or at least an engagement ring on her finger--she will be alone. We have destroyed the social structure that once made it possible for a girl to say that. Now the vast majority of young men a girl meets will say, "I respect your choice to be celibate until you can find someone to support you and your babies. Good luck. Bye." Many young men are not signing up for that, and certainly not while they're in college. And neither are 20-year-old boys prepared to be celibate for years while they merely hold hands with Dream Girl. So the girl who says "no" is abandoned.
What I'm saying is that many girls get into this "friends with benefits" arrangement out of loneliness.
When Pope Paul VI issued his encyclical Humanae Vitae, (Of Human Life) in 1968, many had hoped that he would legalize the already widespread practice of using "The Pill." When he reaffirmed traditional Catholic opposition, millions of Catholics flouted his position. By 1977, a Gallup Poll found that 73 percent of Catholics said one could be a good Catholic and ignore the Pope. I thought it more honest to be a Protestant.
The population of the world is now 6 billion, but I have changed my mind about birth control. In retrospect, Paul's Humanae Vitae was prophetic in saying that widespread use of contraception would lead to "conjugal infidelity and the general lowering of morality."
Certainly, that's happened. Since the Pill began to be sold in 1960, divorces have tripled, out-of-wedlock births jumped from 224,000 to 1.2 million, abortions doubled, and cohabitation soared 10-fold from 430,000 to 4.2 million.
http://www.culture-of-life.org/?Control=ArticleMaster&aid=1419&c=2&p=2
Exactly right. And it's wrong to say that "liberals" did this, as if conservatives were somehow standing up for family values. On a thread like this, most posters will take a pro-chastity line, but on typical FR threads about sexual behavior, anyone who speaks up for chastity gets ridiculed and accused of being part of the Religious Right Taliban.
Unfortunately, this isn't a new or even recent phenomenon. As a teenager in the 60s, I used to stare in amazement at my male peers who believed that dating was a quid pro quo arrangement - the guy pays for a crappy movie and "dinner" at a fast food joint and the girl pays with her body. I never got it.
Somewhere along the line, we lost sight of the fact that dating is about getting to know someone we feel attracted to; it's not about 1 night stands and easy sex. My dad used to explain it this way: "The boy scouts and the girl guides". IOW, if she is willing, she won't stop his . . er, "scouting".
Kids today are so self-involved, it is no wonder that, as a generation, they are basically lost and failing to launch. They have virtually no principles and no respect for themselves or for others (no, I don't mean YOUR children, I mean the OTHER children!).
Following the example set by the "wonderful" (/sarc) President Clinton who proclaimed that "Oral sex isn't sex", kids have gone out and indulged one another in all kinds of oral sex in the bizarre belief that they aren't having sex and their parents are strictly Victorian. Tell me about oral sex not being sex when YOUR daughter is at the doctor's office being treated for an STD in her throat.
Hollywood, the liberals and the MSM have all raised random, unprotected sex to the level of a big prize to be won as early in life as possible. It's long past time to destroy that impression - we should have done it when I was a teenager in the 60s.
Ah, the '60's -- not all can be blamed simply on the pill itself, though.
Freud claimed to have discovered the source of all neurosis in the repression of the sexual impulse, or libido. In fairness, Freud did not think repression was a bad thing, for without it society would disintegrate. The object of psychoanalysis was not to spread universal joy, but to proceed "from hysterical misery to ordinary unhappiness". He did not count on the adolescent narcissism of the 1960s, when the complacent and affluent youth of the industrial world demanded something better than ordinary unhappiness. Freud provided the ideological foundation for the so-called sexual revolution of the 1960s, and popularized versions of his theory dominated popular culture.
The feminists are telling young women that hopping from bed to bed shows how liberated they are. What they aren't hearing is that limitless self-indulgence will leave them spiritually empty and self-hating. Those who live without moral limits ARE judged; most harshly by themselves, and the self destructive behavior is the imposition of punishment they feel they deserve.
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