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...think it encourages the safest behavior,” she said before last night’s event. Grizzle and Kinsella both said they did not plan to attend Madison’s talk. Madison said she believes that a person’s choice to abstain is a personal decision. Responding to the pro-abstinence groups’ criticism, she said, “It’s wrong to push your agenda on someone else, whether you’re for abstinence or for having sex.” Blake L. Johnson ’09 said...
...does have a role on campus—in supporting those who do make the personal choice to abstain and enabling them to better withstand peer pressure. The student community should in turn be respectful of such choices. But the advocates of “true love” overstep the mark when they preaches the value of personal decisions to the everyone on campus...
...would disagree. Sex can be a manifestation of love and a critical step to intimacy. It can empower, liberate, and fulfill in a very unique way. But at its core, sex is essentially a personal choice. Whether students regard it as meaningful or insignificant and decide to participate or abstain, either way, problems with self-worth arise when they feel social pressure either...
...force its members into an archetype of what liberation should be, FemSex’s approach overpowers the individual instead of empowering her. Empowerment is about making your own choices, not about adhering to the FemSex agenda. I wonder how a class member who made the liberated choice to abstain from sex would be received in this group...
Under this new legislation, classes led by professors who abstain from the annual CUE Guide will likely present students with an unusual evaluation: Students, presumably, will receive a shortened CUE questionnaire, asking for comments on their TF but specifically omitting questions regarding their professor...