Posted on May 8th, 2012 by Love and Fidelity Network
Share While Sex Week at Yale (SWAY) and its counter-part, True Love Week, received national media attention this past February from the O’Reilly Factor, US News , USA Today , and NBC, another Ivy League multi-day event on sexuality slipped by somewhat under the radar. The IvyQ conference at Brown on February 16-19 attracted about [...]
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Posted on April 27th, 2012 by Shirene Urry
ShareWhen I was in college I became concerned about divorce. Ironically, divorce was foreign to me. It had not occurred in my immediate or extended family. In fact, I grew up in a secure and loving home environment with parents who had been happily married for over 20 years (now 30). I belong to a [...]
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Posted on April 3rd, 2012 by Love and Fidelity Network
ShareWhat we lose when we forget what sex is for. Here are selections from an excellent article by Dr. J Budziszewski, a Natural Law professor at UT-Austin, who just released an excellent book, On the Meaning of Sex. Shelly is getting herself drunk so that she can bring herself to go home with the strange [...]
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Posted on March 8th, 2012 by Love and Fidelity Network
ShareSpecial thanks to Charles Capps for providing us with his award-winning essay on the conjugal theory of sexual morality, as laid out by the New Natural Law Theory. Following up on yesterday’s post, we conclude the essay with part II for you now. Enjoy. IV. The Conjugal Act We will now proceed to develop a [...]
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Posted on March 6th, 2012 by Love and Fidelity Network
ShareI. Introduction1 Since the cultural upheaval of the 1960s, opposing views of sexual morality have created deep rifts in the fabric of Western society. Today, with the remarkable acceleration of the movement to assimilate homosexual partnerships into the definition of civil marriage, these rifts have exploded to the forefront of the public sphere. Now more [...]
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Posted on December 6th, 2011 by Love and Fidelity Network
Despite the issues that these two respondents pose to Shanahan and Morgan’s research, the fact that I can only really conclude that two subjects had hookups evidences the fact that hookups are not nearly as widespread as they are thought to be. Members of the hookup culture are a minority on Duke’s campus, just as they are in my data, representing only 6% of the sample.
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Posted on November 29th, 2011 by Love and Fidelity Network
ShareWe are told that these are the best four years of life. Visibly eager, and almost impossibly energetic, the recent high school graduate fantasizes about the ideas he will learn and the experiences he will live in this new utopia without limits and free from the dreaded specter of authority figures quelling fun and life [...]
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Posted on November 22nd, 2011 by Love and Fidelity Network
In this environment, the man or woman who stands up and declares “I dissent” can be profoundly discomfiting. You are those people. And you are discomfiting precisely because all sides understand that by dissenting you are saying that the prevailing orthodoxy is false, that there is a better path to a happy and fulfilling life. That is a radical stand on most college campuses today. And like all radicals willing to accept the consequences of their principles, you inspire a mix of admiration and fear.
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Posted on November 15th, 2011 by Love and Fidelity Network
ShareA friend of the Network suggested this article from this blog, where a feminist woman writes honestly and candidly about the flaws in the hook-up system, and how it’s harmful for women. The post generated hundreds of comments from readers who congratulated Steph on her honesty, while others dismissed her statements. We quote: Dear Susan, [...]
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Posted on October 27th, 2011 by Love and Fidelity Network
ShareIn 2009, I published an article in my college’s newspaper in which I pointed out that the prevalence of casual, uncommitted sex on our campus fosters the kinds of attitudes that make sexual assault a reality in many students’ lives. I expected my article to be met with hostility, but I received a surprising amount [...]
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