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In my sophomore year, Ben and I lived next door to each other. I was inspired by my summer internship to start my own theater group. Almost every night I would sleep over but we wouldn't have sex, just once every few weeks. I was disappointed; it was like getting crumbs off a table. It went on this way the whole sophomore year. In the summer, I went to see Mike and the theater group again and then I got a job. I began to realize that none of these three men I've been involved with, Ron, Ben, and Mike, [...]

A campus psychiatrist reveals how political correctness in her profession endangers every student" "Unprotected" is based on Dr. Grossman's personal experiences counseling college students who have become the cannon fodder of the sexual revolution and political correctness on campus. She makes a powerful case for changing the way colleges, and our whole society, present sexual intimacy and health.   Radical politics pervades my profession, and common sense has vanished. Not long ago, a psychiatrist might call casual sexual activity `mindless' and `empty.' Before political correctness muzzled our nation in the nineties, a campus physician might advise a student that it is [...]

Orlando Sentinel - 7/10/07 - by Scott Travis According to research to be presented the 18th International Nursing Research Congress Focusing on Evidence-Based Practice this week in Vienna, a sample of at-risk teenage girls in Florida reported that movies, TV shows, and song lyrics helped shape their impression that casual sex is commonplace and ordinary. In the study, 20 females ages 14-18 incarcerated at the Okeechobee-based at-risk intervention facility VisionQuest were interviewed by Josie Weiss of Florida Atlantic University-Treasure Coast (FAU-TC). All the teens were sexually experienced; many had had unplanned and unprotected sex. While teachers and parents might promote [...]

By Sharon Jayson USA TODAY June 22, 2006 More couples are getting premarital education, perhaps thinking it may give their new marriages divorce protection. And new research suggests they may well be right. Premarital education "is associated with higher levels of marital satisfaction, lower levels of destructive conflicts and higher levels of interpersonal commitment to spouses," says the study, published this spring in the Journal of Family Psychology. Based on a random phone survey of 3,344 adults in four states, it says couples who received premarital education had a 31% lower chance of divorce. The number of hours spent in [...]

GALLUP NEWS SERVICE, May 30, 2006 PRINCETON, NJ -- When USA Today asked what the subjects of his film "March of the Penguins" have most in common with humans, director Luc Jacquet answered, "They form couples and are faithful. It's the only way they can raise the chick under extreme conditions." Jacquet's rendering of love-struck penguin couples struggling to bring their offspring into the world is touchingly humanlike. But marriage is often viewed as a declining institution in U.S. society. Indeed, Gallup trends show that the percentage of American adults who were married at the time of the survey has fallen [...]

A list-serve posting that generated many interesting responses. January 2004 Hi, This was about the ONLY, and I mean ONLY group on Yahoo that had to do with monogamy. I'm looking for some advice/guidance. Why is it that men cannot be monogamous? This includes yours truly! And, how can one become monogamous? Thanks in advance...Oh and please don't tell me something silly like I need to get faith in the Lord because many folks with faith still cheat. "Looking for direction"   Dear "looking for direction," Excellent question I'm sending it out to see if any on the list-serve have [...]

By Elizabeth Marquardt for The Washington Post Sunday February 3, 2002 She's a young professor teaching at an elite college, married and with a small child. She loves her husband and adores her baby girl. She's a portrait of success. She's also a child of divorce. For some researchers, the story stops there: The young woman's parents separated long ago, but her achievements -- both professionally and personally -- show that she has come through the experience of her family's breakup just fine. I was reminded of this way of thinking when I read a new study, "For Better or [...]

As reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association October 20, 1999- Vol.282, No. 15, 1405-1407. Implant 2.4% Pill 9% Diaphragm & cervical cap 13% Male Condom 15% Withdrawal 26% Spermicides 28% "Failures are highest among cohabiting and other unmarried women, among low income, African-American and Hispanic women, among adolescents and women in their 20s. For example, adolescent women who are not married but cohabiting (living with boyfriend) experience a failure rate of about 47% in the first year of contraceptive use, while the 12 month failure rate among married women 30 and older is only 8%."* Data taken [...]

By HARA ESTROFF MARANO There is a brand new recipe for a healthy life. The basic ingredients are a low-fat diet, regular exercise -- and marriage. Countering conventional wisdom that marriage is bad for women but good for men, a University of Chicago researcher says she has found that marriage brings considerable benefits to both women and men. It lengthens life, substantially boosts physical and emotional health and raises income over that of single or divorced people or those who live together, she says. The researcher, Dr. Linda J. Waite, a professor of sociology, presented her findings in July at [...]