What happened to drowning worms?
Health and sex education for young people in the 1950s ended with high school--and about all I can remember is a matronly woman dropping a worm in a bottle of Coca Cola so we could see that it would die. Or did she force it to smoke a cigarette? We certainly didn't have any required sex or health courses in college.In today's WSJ Christian C. Sahner, who must have had the dream job of the summer as an intern of sorts at the paper before he is launched as a Rhodes Scholar, writes about sex ed at Princeton:
"At Princeton, the freshman class must attend "Sex on a Saturday Night" (SoSN) during its first week. It's a university-organized, student-performed play designed to warn about sexual assault and alcohol abuse. Many schools have similar programs. Its noble intentions are overshadowed, however, by a deleterious message: College is time to get busy (and not just in the library)!"
The play includes 10 characters, telling raunchy, crude jokes with one hokey abstainer who uses a copy of Playboy. The message isn't neutral at all, Sahner reports. It presents "consent" as the only moral principle in "hooking up," whether gay or straight, male or female. All other considerations like pregnancy, STDs, or depression stemming from treating sexual relationships like a college sport, are all irrelevant.
It would be nice, given the statistics on moral students from in tact families that he suggests, if the students just laughed this off the way we did the worms in the bottle. But why is Princeton force feeding such a degrading view of sex with this compulsory, repulsive requirement?
Parents: you're paying the bills. Is this what you want for an education?
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Personally, I have very little respect for the much balleyhooed Ivy League schools. They are so over-the-top with crazy liberal nonsense like that that I am amazed that any graduates are sane.
Out of all the schools my fellow engineers went to, literally all over the country, I only know ONE that went to an Ivy League School and has enough sense to tie his own shoes. He went to Duke.
Actually it's not the abstainer's Playboy, it's his roommate's, and he's very embarrassed about it. Also, there's a second girl who chooses not to have sex during the play, making it 2/7 of the heterosexual population that abstains, in accordance with Sahner's "35% of students have not had sex at age 18" (Though the characters in the play are actually more like 19-21). So even Rhodes scholars choose not to their research.
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