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eeeeeek i am scared of the summer.
On a totally different note, I think everyone should read this article:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/06/AR2006050601206.html
If you can't click the link, go to www.washingtonpost.com and search for "performance anxiety," it's the first thing that comes up.
Men especially, but women, too. We should all realize that college men aren't sex machines. I think the message that the article's really sending is pretty clear: don't have random sex, but the author never really goes there. Nevertheless, it's pretty obvious.
And the NY Times has a great article today about opposition to chemical contraception (i.e., the pill). I'm a big fan of the birth control pill, but I did enjoy reading the different perspectives the article presents.
Especially:
That may be a distinctly minority position, but some who work in the public health field acknowledge that the social conservatives have a point. "I think the left missed something in the last couple of decades," says Sarah Brown, president of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, which positions itself as a moderate voice in the heated world of reproductive politics. "With the advent of oral contraception, I think there was this great sense that we had a solution to the problem of unintended pregnancy. But that is a medical model. I think the thing that was missed was that sex and pregnancy and relationships aren't just a health issue. They are really about family and gender and religion and values. And what the right did was move in and say we're not just talking about body parts."
Anyway, it's really interesting for both sides of the issue.
On a totally different note, I think everyone should read this article:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/06/AR2006050601206.html
If you can't click the link, go to www.washingtonpost.com and search for "performance anxiety," it's the first thing that comes up.
Men especially, but women, too. We should all realize that college men aren't sex machines. I think the message that the article's really sending is pretty clear: don't have random sex, but the author never really goes there. Nevertheless, it's pretty obvious.
And the NY Times has a great article today about opposition to chemical contraception (i.e., the pill). I'm a big fan of the birth control pill, but I did enjoy reading the different perspectives the article presents.
Especially:
That may be a distinctly minority position, but some who work in the public health field acknowledge that the social conservatives have a point. "I think the left missed something in the last couple of decades," says Sarah Brown, president of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, which positions itself as a moderate voice in the heated world of reproductive politics. "With the advent of oral contraception, I think there was this great sense that we had a solution to the problem of unintended pregnancy. But that is a medical model. I think the thing that was missed was that sex and pregnancy and relationships aren't just a health issue. They are really about family and gender and religion and values. And what the right did was move in and say we're not just talking about body parts."
Anyway, it's really interesting for both sides of the issue.