Posted on 05/01/2008 7:00:20 AM PDT by forkinsocket
However high-minded their courses may sound – "Mirror of Princes," say, or "The Political Philosophy of Aristotle" – college students today enter a low hook-up culture when they leave the classroom. In case you don't know, a hook-up is a brief sexual encounter between two partners who don't necessarily know each other before and who don't necessarily want to know each other after. And it's free. The sort of transient sex that once was available to men only for money can now be had, without paying, from college women – as long as the man is a fellow student and minimally artful about his approach. If he is thwarted in one overture, he may try another with a reasonable prospect of success.
No doubt lurid anecdote and popular myth cause us to exaggerate the actual frequency of campus hook-ups: Most college students do not share in these delights. But most students also believe that "everyone does it," even if the individual student, for some reason, cannot locate a partner. Thus an active minority sets the tone and makes hooking up a "culture." When there are no sexual boundaries, either official or informal, the standard becomes the extreme, and all students feel the pressure to appear more promiscuous than they are. The traditional double standard of sexual conduct – more restrictive for women than for men – has been replaced by the single standard of the predatory male.
In "Sex and the Soul," Donna Freitas, an assistant professor of religion at Boston University, acutely describes this "liberated" campus culture and wisely analyzes its effects. She is especially concerned to measure conduct and expectation against the inner life of students, including their religious feeling or "spiritual" selves. Over and over again she finds a conflict that does not resolve itself happily.
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Well, not at a Baptist college anyway. It might lead to dancing.
1,500 cases of attempted manslaughter.
1,500 idiots.
Yep. No doubt about it.
Reading “Liberal Fascism” now. Great insights as to what was going on in the 1960’s. I was too young to understand what was going on. The culture of death marches on.
Actually, the left is only about destroying; it is not a culture at all.
It is anti-culture.
Now see? That is why you get them to put on the blindfold before you let them in.
Coffee is for closers only...
They should be impressed and happy: If you wear restraints & a helmet, with a fire suit to drive a race car bed, just think how safe she'll believe you are about other stuff!
The bondage gear they can deal with, but a middle-aged conservative?
You need some Just for Men and a couple of Che Guevara posters.
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