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...think of all the terms we have for jerking off that we don’t have for girls. FM: If you had to give a piece of advice to Harvard students about their sex and love lives, what would it be? JF: Obviously, I would encourage them to abstain until marriage. LC: It would probably be to be as confident about their sexuality as they are about their intellect and other things that make them great. Start acknowledging it, and not being ashamed that we have sexual desires, and not treating sex as something we should be ashamed...
...Harvard, not being a beer drinker carries a stigma. If you abstain from alcohol—“even beer?!”—then you’re labeled a wuss. If you drink, but opt for something else, than you run the risk of being considered a liquor snob. And it’s hard not to come out of the closet as a non-beer drinker. The Queen’s Head—Harvard’s gleaming, retro social space du jour—has a beer-centric menu and a calendar...
...activity," said Pat Patterson, the medical director of School-Based Health Centers. And most parents, in fact, WANT kids to get both messages; a 2005 survey from the Pew Forum found that 78% want public schools to teach about birth control, and 76% think schools should teach kids to abstain from sex until marriage. Three quarters of high school kids themselves favor that message...
...Congressional-Executive Commission on China credited Communist Party leaders with increasing legal protections for those who abstain from unauthorized political and religious activities, but noted the safeguards are selectively enforced. "Against persons the Party deems to pose a threat to its supremacy, officials wield the legal system as a harsh and deliberately unpredictable weapon," the panel concluded in its annual report on the state of human rights and rule of law in China...
...only after the increasingly unpopular President Pervez Musharraf granted her amnesty as part of a power-sharing agreement--announced two days before he won the Oct. 6 election--that has infuriated opposition activists. Musharraf's landslide victory was largely due to Bhutto's party members following her directive to abstain from voting. That gave the general, who came to power in 1999 in a bloodless coup and still holds the title of army chief, the legitimacy he craves as head of state. With the Supreme Court scheduled to decide on Oct. 17 whether Musharraf could run for office while serving...