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College Girls: Unpaid Whores
cornellreview ^ | 3/4/2002 | Joseph J. Sabia

Posted on 03/19/2002 7:13:02 AM PST by TLBSHOW

College Girls: Unpaid Whores

If you were to visit a women’s studies department at an elite university, you would encounter a wide variety of courses on the sexual liberation of women. The main thrust of these courses is that for too long, various social institutions have prevented women from exploring their sexual desires. Now, thanks to the heroism of such women as Gloria Steinem, Margaret Sanger, and Bella Abzug, women have been partially freed from the oppressive forces of male patriarchy. In other words, young women are encouraged to be whores.

The chant of Gen. Y college babes might as well be “We’re here, we’re whores, get used to it!” No, most girls are not actually uttering those words, but the slutty sentiments are implicit in the standard female college behavior – wearing tight shirts and pants, getting publicly drunk, hanging on every guy around, and engaging in random sex.

The concept of “behaving like a lady” is an anachronism. If a college girl acts like a lady, she is considered boring, prudish, and old-fashioned. Why is this happening? Five important explanations come to mind.

(1) Feminist thought has taught young women that equality is achieved by acting like promiscuous sluts.

In Who Stole Feminism? Christina Hoff Summers writes extensively about how the women’s rights movement was hijacked by gender feminists, who supplanted equity feminists. While equity feminists were concerned with such mainstream issues as equal pay for equal work, gender feminists were obsessed with proving that (a) there are no biological differences between men and women and (b) men are evil. When the gender feminists seized control of the movement, they encouraged women to behave just as immorally as many men. This was seen as a step toward gender equity.

But why is it liberating for a college-age woman to jump into bed with a man that is not her husband? Why is it freeing to become intoxicated and to hook-up with anonymous frat guys? Why is it an expression of equal rights to give into men’s animalistic instincts?

Presumably, women could exercise their true power to tame men by using celibacy (and other ladylike behavior) to induce men into monogamous stable relationships and eventually into marriage. Along the way to healthy relationships, women could also gain some self-respect.

(2) Young women have turned away from God.

As women have strayed from the church, they have replaced what is holy with what is temporally pleasing. For Catholics, the model woman is Mary, the virgin Mother of God. She is beloved by the faithful for her unflappable devotion to and trust in God, her nurturing of the Son of Man, and her deep love for all humanity.

Today’s college girl looks to Ally McBeal, the trollops of Sex in the City, and the floozies on Friends to set their moral compasses.

The sad truth is that college girls are so desperate to find love that they are willing to degrade themselves to get it. But true love can only be understood in the context of the Word of God. Any other notion of “love” is secular and, by definition, limited and finite.

(3) The costs of sex have rapidly declined.

The explosion in availability of the birth control pill fueled the so-called sexual revolution of the ‘60s, the consequences of which we still see today. With the ability to partially regulate the probability of pregnancy, women can choose to have sex more liberally. Expanded abortion-on-demand services have also permitted young women to engage in more sex because of the greater ease with which a major consequence of sex can be disposed. Abortion providers have recognized the prevalence of sex by college girls in their choice to locate close to our nation’s colleges and universities.

Perhaps just as important as the reduction in the economic costs of sex is the decline in the psychic costs of sex – specifically, the social stigma associated with nonmarital sex. In an earlier era, young women who chose to engage in sex were socially ostracized and their behavior denounced. Today, if a young woman engages in a one-night-stand (“random hook-up”) she is a liberated studette.

(4) Marriage has been devalued by young women and replaced not only by cohabitation but also by new, bizarre social arrangements such as “friends with benefits.”

Young women have traditionally looked to men for marriage and family formation. This is no longer true. College girls look at men not as marriage material, but as sex partners and roommates. Many college women live and sleep with their boyfriends. This is the norm.

Additionally, other sex-based relationships have become commonplace. In recent years, a new and disturbing arrangement known as “friends with benefits” has emerged. In this arrangement, men are not even forced to perform the normal duties of boyfriends, i.e. flowers, Valentine’s Day cards, rides to the abortion clinic, etc. Instead, girls consider these guys “just friends” whom they happen to screw every now and again. No strings, no attachments, no dinners. Just sex when they feel like it.

This type of arrangement is the next logical step in the direction that young women have drifted in the last few decades. These women have become unpaid whores. At least prostitutes made a buck off of their trade. These women just give it away.

The truth is that women actually lose power by becoming tramps. When they give away one of their main sources of bargaining power in a relationship – sex – men gain total power by achieving everything they want…free sex with no obligation.

(5) “You know exactly who’s to blame…the mother and the father.” – The Oompa Loompas in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

College girls are clearly responsible for their own behavior, but their parents have shaped their values. The verdict is in -- their parents have failed. Too many parents, particularly mothers, have eschewed their moral obligations to raise their daughters to be respectable ladies.

Instead, many moms want to be their daughters’ friends, talking late at night about boyfriends, parties, who’s hot, etc. Young women do not need more friends, they need mothers who will provide moral guidance. Unfortunately, these self-absorbed moms cannot deal with the fact that they are old and will never again see their early 20s. Thus, they attempt to live their sorority days all over again through their slutty daughters.

“Now Sabia,” you say, “you’ve been very hard on young women. But don’t young men deserve some blame? Aren’t you just a bitter, cranky, rapidly-aging misogynist?”

The answer to both questions is ‘yes.’

Young men are awful and they have gotten worse over the years. And let me be clear – young men are responsible for their own behavior.

But women have historically been the civilizing forces for men. That is biological. Moreover, several verses in the Scriptures refer to the important role that women have in the moral uplift of men.

It should surprise no one that sexual activity has historically been more frequent among gay men than among heterosexuals. This is because there is no civilizing female force in the gay community. Whenever men want to have sex, they just go ahead and do it. Neither of the partners has much of an incentive to refrain from sex since monogamous relationships and traditional familes are generally not the final goals of these partnerships. Recently, the behavior of young heterosexuals has begun to resemble that of gay men because young women are imitating men in their sexual promiscuity.

The result of young women’s abdication of responsibility has been significant moral decay on America’s college campuses. Can the moral high ground ever be reclaimed? Perhaps…one church pew at a time.


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To: Jeff Gordon
and death is what she can get from being a slutty whore
481 posted on 03/20/2002 12:59:25 AM PST by TLBSHOW
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To: Marysecretary;DallasDeb
No, but he stood by and let her and then blamed her (It's this woman you sent me, Lord!). It was his responsibility as her husband to protect her. He was pretty weak! And too many men today abandon their Godly responsibilities, just like ole Adam did.

What is that from the Gloria Steinem version of the Bible ????? Sheesh.

482 posted on 03/20/2002 3:21:15 AM PST by hobbes1
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To: codebreaker
YES!!!! YES!!!!!...David Spade was Right! (283) lol
483 posted on 03/20/2002 3:23:26 AM PST by hobbes1
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To: Clemenza
I think it is a class struggle thing and "women", or rather feminists, are working hard to have the upper hand in pigness. In fact I would consider these sailor women to be worse than the worst of sailor out there. At least sailors don't kill babies that I know of.
484 posted on 03/20/2002 3:24:33 AM PST by lavaroise
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To: sonserae
Calling Me a Unik will not help your case.
Now who's the stupid one?

Are you really that sarcasm/humor challenged? Poor Girl.

485 posted on 03/20/2002 3:27:17 AM PST by hobbes1
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To: Incorrigible
I KNOW THAT GUY!
486 posted on 03/20/2002 3:30:10 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: wardaddy
I for one don't like the two new forums...I prefer one.

Amen.

Stay horny..stay safe ..and Good Luck....when you grow up and are forced to live outside yourself...things will change...at least I hope they do.

Thanx for the well wishes, but that happened years ago.
I currently live so far outside myself, I am beginning to forget who I was/am..LOL. And yes, Existing for the sake of others is far more sublime than a self centered Bacchanalian existence.

487 posted on 03/20/2002 3:41:59 AM PST by hobbes1
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
Matthew 13:53ff in the Bible indicates Jesus had brothers AND sisters. How is it that Catholicism teaches that Mary had no other children? Just curious.

Because you are an idiot. Jesus was of the house of DAVID. Sisters and for that matter Brothers would be other Members of the House of DAVID, not Direct offspring of Mary and Joseph

488 posted on 03/20/2002 3:53:21 AM PST by hobbes1
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To: Don Myers
Honor is saying what you mean, meaning what you say, keeping your word, etc it has little to do with sex.
489 posted on 03/20/2002 4:40:04 AM PST by weikel
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To: TLBSHOW
Whatever. It take two to tango. You can't have a whore without a customer.
490 posted on 03/20/2002 6:07:16 AM PST by neefer
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To: weikel
"Honor is saying what you mean, meaning what you say, keeping your word, etc it has little to do with sex."

Honor goes way beyond what you say. It also has to do with how you live.

491 posted on 03/20/2002 7:54:44 AM PST by Don Myers
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To: Don Myers
It does but among the girls who were my peers the sluts were the ones who were nicest to me( no im not talking about sleeping with them or anything I mean in general).
492 posted on 03/20/2002 7:56:27 AM PST by weikel
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To: codebreaker
Two of the pink-eye cases, by any chance?
493 posted on 03/20/2002 8:05:21 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: RightThinkinDood
morality never dictates behavior in any meaningful way

Speak for yourself. Morality dictates the behavior of most of the people I know, including those on this forum. What kind of people do you associate with?

494 posted on 03/20/2002 8:08:29 AM PST by Steve0113
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To: codebreaker
The young co-ed looks with trepidation towards tomorrow morning's splitting headache and gossip about who she was with last night...
495 posted on 03/20/2002 8:13:51 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: Kalashnikov_68
I bet those are actually still shots from a Girls Gone Wild video.
496 posted on 03/20/2002 8:33:11 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: hobbes1
My bad...sometimes I simply misunderstand the written word as intended. I should have known that anyone who chooses the great Tommy Hobbes as a moniker would be at a minimum a social conservative like myself.

Warm Regards....

PS...as we speak our beloved forum is morphing before our very eyes into something I have yet to comprehend. I hope the old adage about not fixing unbroke things doesn't come into play here.

497 posted on 03/20/2002 8:35:27 AM PST by wardaddy
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The wildest ones make sure there is no gossip to fear.
498 posted on 03/20/2002 8:40:15 AM PST by codebreaker
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To: weikel
I agree most sluts are nice! Sluts rock..
499 posted on 03/20/2002 8:40:56 AM PST by codebreaker
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To: codebreaker; weikel
There's an authenticity with a "slut" that you just can't get with a "nice" girl. Time after time I've seen "nice" girls covertly get together with well-known players or disrespectful scumbags and then talk trash about the party girls. Or use sex as a negotiating tool with their "nice guy" boyfriends while giving it up for free with the 3rd string football player they're seeing on the side. I have trained myself to spot one of these types a mile away.

And no, it's not all about sex. Some guys just like to hang out with the kind of girls you can just watch the game with or go hiking with without the constant "I'm tired" garbage.

500 posted on 03/20/2002 9:08:01 AM PST by Cu Roi
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