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In the Wall Street Journal today, Boston University professor Donna Freitas reveals the surprising attitudes of many college students toward sex, romance, and dating. For one thing, many describe their own experience with the “hookup” culture using words like “dirty” and “empty.” For another, many yearn for old-fashioned ways of dating that include flowers and perhaps a chaste kiss goodnight:
After conducting a national college survey of over 2,500 students, I found that among those who reported “hooking up” — a range of sexually intimate acts, from kissing to intercourse, that occur outside a committed relationship — at Catholic and nonreligious private and public colleges and universities, 41% are profoundly upset about their behavior…
When last semester I taught Wendy Shalit’s “A Return to Modesty,” in a class at Boston University…I assumed that my mostly left-leaning students would reject her arguments about the terrible effects that the hook-up culture has on young women and the positive effects of traditional religion and morality on young women’s well-being. Instead, my students ate up her critique and were fascinated by her descriptions of modesty as a virtue, especially within the context of faith.
Freitas had more encouraging news about students’ receptivity to traditional views on sex and dating — but also sobering news for parents on the powerful “pimps and ho’s” ethos that dominates many college campuses today. What can be done to turn that tide? How will you counsel your kids?
HT: Harris
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Wow - back in my day, girls were willing to have sex just to get romance. Things are looking up - now they want to withhold sex to get romance. Maybe they are seeing the folly of their parents’ free love sexual revolution generation. Sounds like they’re seeing that free love ain’t all it’s cracked up to be.
Maybe that’s why Jane Austin books and movies are so popular.
I would add such movies as 40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Juno, and maybe even Superbad.
This kind of change is good for America.
This sounds promising, so perhaps the tide is already turning. I was unaware of Wendy Shalit’s book, but hopefully enough kids will find it.
STD’s shorten the life span
NJL,
I’m just starting Shalit’s second book, Girls Gone Mild. It’s too early to know if I’ll recommend it highly, but her first was an important book. (I broke my usual “rule” about not reading a book written by someone under thirty, after repeatedly hearing how profound the book was, and how necessary that someone from her generation was saying that stuff, and was very glad I did.)
Hi all,
This is encouraging. And, inevitable, I might add.
You really can’t go outside of God’s design and not have chaos.
It pains me to imagine how many lonely, spineless kids have debased themselves for acceptance. I hurt because of the “cheap, empty, used,” feeling they are left with when they follow the current sexual ethics (or lack thereof).
Glad you posted this.
PS.
BU is my alma-mater!
It is an encouraging sign - but academia will try to head off any movement in that direction (at least until the Boomer profs have filtered through academia and their influence has waned).