ShareLena Chen, Harvard senior and staunch opponent to many of True Love Revolution’s platform statements, nevertheless did us the kind favor of live blogging throughout our recent regional conference, “Rethinking Sex: Building Healthy Relationships in a Hook Up World.”  While she departs from us on many key principles, her account of the conference sessions and [...]

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Viewing sex as a means to an end, the end being commitment, will not work. Girls, as well as guys, are searching for something, a particular feeling of security and affection, along with the knowledge that the person you are with loves you for yourself. Sex is not going to get you there, because when you think about it, even if it’s with someone you might deeply care about, you have no assurance that they will stick around. It’s increasingly disappointing with casual intimate encounters, for you are at your most intimate with someone else, and perhaps, when you might least expect it, you will hear the words “I’ll call you.” In addition, as Eden puts it, by giving yourself so entirely, “you’re saying with your body something that isn’t true.”

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By giving into this culture that pushes instant gratification at all costs and downplays feelings and emotions, you’re not rebelling, standing out, empowering yourself, or making a difference. Instead, you’re doing the complete opposite: you’re pushing yourself into a corner, reprogramming yourself to repel love (yes, love, that nearly foreign word that seems to have joined the dinosaurs in the land of extinction), attempting to hardwire your emotions to an on and off switch. In the future, when you’re ready to experience a real relationship, it will be a lot harder to turn on. Why sacrifice who you are, what you feel, and what you want?

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When we embrace the sexualized college student role, we surrender our identities: The vibrant, beautiful, curious, winsome, self-controlled men and women that we are. Will we be slaves to sexuality, or seek out something more?

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Reacting to the common perception that all college students are engaging in casual sexual activities and enjoying it, this Headline Bistro article offers a different perspective on the sentiments of young men and women toward the hook-up culture and its consequences.

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