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Miriam Grossman, M.D., child and adolescent psychiatrist www.miriamgrossmanmd.com There’s nothing gray about Fifty Shades of Grey. It’s all black. I help people who are broken inside. I ask questions, and listen carefully to the answers. One thing I've learned is that young people are utterly confused about love—finding it and keeping it. They make poor choices, and end up in lots of pain. I don’t want you to suffer like the people I see in my office, so I'm warning you about a new movie called Fifty Shades of Grey. Even if you don't see the film, its toxic message is seeping into [...]

By Julianne Ross January 29, 2015 Courtesy of MLC.com Susan Sontag famously wrote, "Nothing is mysterious, no human relation, except love." She had a point. Philosophers have argued over the meaning of love for millennia, but a glance at literary history gives us the beginnings of a definition: Love can be a connection to something greater than ourselves, or the thing that shows us who we really are. It is the oldest feeling in the world, yet somehow always feels new. It is patient and kind, yet requires relentless dedicationand hard work. It is at once our most comforting support and the thing that makes us lose our balance. At the very least, [...]

By Jan Hoffman, June 23, 2014 Courtesy of NY Times At 13, they were viewed by classmates with envy, admiration and not a little awe. The girls wore makeup, had boyfriends and went to parties held by older students. The boys boasted about sneaking beers on a Saturday night and swiping condoms from the local convenience store. They were cool. They were good-looking. They were so not you. Whatever happened to them? “The fast-track kids didn’t turn out O.K.,” said Joseph P. Allen, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia. He is the lead author of a new study, published this [...]

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 [...]