Posted on February 8th, 2012 by Love and Fidelity Network
ShareToday, the Love and Fidelity Network is pleased to introduce an intercollegiate advertising campaign with the prominent tagline “My sexual choices now are making a difference.” This campaign–presented by 19 colleges and universities (including five Ivy Leagues) through 9,000 posters–sends the message that college students’ current sexual choices can increase their confidence in achieving other [...]
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Posted on May 10th, 2011 by Love and Fidelity Network
ShareIn this article featured in the USA Today news, Naomi Riley discussed the Yale incident involving students who filed a Title IX complaint against the university for failing to address incidents of sexual harassment and violations. Naomi reflects, however, on the much higher prevalence of casual sexual liaisons amongst college students, which is largely fueled [...]
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Posted on April 19th, 2011 by Love and Fidelity Network
ShareWhen fraternity pledges marched through Yale’s campus earlier this academic year chanting “No means yes!”, their parade elicited mixed reactions. Such raunchy demonstrations have come to be almost expected by the student body, causing many to be desensitized and to write off such events as dumb jokes that don’t actually represent male opinion, but that [...]
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Posted on April 14th, 2011 by Love and Fidelity Network
Shareeduhookups.com is the perfect manifestation of the individualism in which I have been trained in the last twenty-one years. This website, which makes available to students a “no strings attached” sexual encounter, enables the persons in my university cohort to pursue personal sexual intrigues so long as the intrigue is mutually desired by another. The [...]
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Posted on April 7th, 2011 by Love and Fidelity Network
After all, the sweetness about romance is knowing someone who will always enjoy the way you look (even without makeup or a huge volume of alcohol), who will be there whenever you need him or her, who would sit side-by-side with you on the Main Green on a sunny Saturday afternoon to watch the autumn leaves fall. An addiction to the “fast food” style of romance simply deprives one of so many beautiful things in life.
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Posted on November 25th, 2010 by Ashley Crouch
Share This recent article “Thank you. No, Thank you” stated that those who …frequently feel grateful have more energy, more optimism, more social connections and more happiness than those who do not… On this Thanksgiving Day, we’d like to take a moment to consider what brings us a sense of gratitude. We find the reasons [...]
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Posted on October 13th, 2010 by Ashley Crouch
In linking issues of same sex marriage, about which there can be reasonable disagreement, to issues of bullying and hate crimes (that we all agree are wrong), we’re failing to recognize Clementi’s death for the tragedy that it was.
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Posted on September 10th, 2010 by Ashley Crouch
Share Just in time for the weekend! We’ve all heard of Rick Steve’s Travel Guide on a Shoe-string budget. Now, college senior at Notre Dame pens the new edition: Dating on a Shoe-String Budget. In response to our previous post “How to Bring Dating Back; a Suggestion“, Tess lists some practical, lighthearted, and creative ideas [...]
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Posted on July 30th, 2010 by Ashley Crouch
What will it take to bring dating back on any given campus? A group of guys brave enough to ask, witty enough to plan, and sincere enough to be trusted—a group of gentlemen, each willing to approach a woman as something at least a little mysterious, as something worthy of his efforts—and a group of women noble enough to be inspiring, trusting enough to take the guys at their word, and humble enough to give them a chance—that is, a group of ladies. The rest will take care of itself. People in college want to date; they just need to see it happen first.
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Posted on July 21st, 2010 by Ashley Crouch
At one level, GoodCrush is a culmination of the hookup culture: it caters to and encourages our cowardice, along with the unromantic attitudes that accompany it. And although GoodCrush requires a modicum of initiative, the decision to crush someone is risk-free, and in this way shows the influences of our hookup mentality. After all, in a “no-strings-attached” hookup, with no premise of sincere affection, a student can sidle closer to the object of his affection without risking real rejection. GoodCrush is the same, and has many of the same negative implications for our generation. Unwilling to take on risks, we have failed to grow up in a normal fashion;
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