Sunday, April 6, 2014
Sexed-Up Extracurriculars
If you’ve seen the occasional stories on “sex weeks” at Yale and Harvard, you might be surprised to know that many colleges and universities officially devote more than seven days to the subject. “In reality, I suspect many parents have little sense of the extent to which their son’s or daughter’s university promotes this sexual ideology—it’s not the kind of information included in university admissions packets or fact sheets,” Mary Rice Hasson wrote in an article which appeared in the winter edition of The Family in America, published by the Howard Center for Family, Religion and Society.
Hasson has done extensive research on just how far this trend extends. For example, the University of Oregon has developed an app that promises “the possibility for pleasure, intimacy, joy, and self-discovery, either with another person or by yourself.”
“Far from being a rogue adventure—perhaps the work of an isolated computer geek with a sex-obsessed mind—the app was a deliberate undertaking by the University of Oregon, involving the sponsorship of 11 campus departments, offices, or programs,” Hasson reported. “In addition, the University spent $24,000 for Christian-bashing sex columnist Dan Savage to launch the product formally with a speech to students.” (more...)
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