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...article published in the Atlantic Monthly last February, Dr. Carl Binger attributed the college girl's desire for an affair to a need for security engendered by social and academic pressure. Dr. Binger explains that the college girl is plagued by depression resulting from fears of inadequacy. She comes to fear comment or criticism and seeks security in the esteem of a young man whom she admires, and whose approbation hopefully will offset her self-doubt and feelings of insufficiency...
...importance of sexual inter-course in an affair is clear to Dr. Binger--in many cases it serves to relieve almost unbearable pressure. But that affair may at once have the healthy effect of relaxation and the disconcerting effect of distraction, is evident in Sallie Bingham's description of Hal's thoughts while studying with Eleanor in "Winter Term...
Going steady also leads a statistically indeterminable number of girls to bed, generally with fears and trepidations rationalized by "he insists and I love him." Most girls' mothers suspect this situation and stay calm. "It is fathers," says Psychiatrist Carl Binger, "who need to be protected against the facts of life." If the upshot is a marriage while a girl is still in school, she often counts her education a success. "I NEVER, NEVER expected to leave without being married," writes a still unmarried Wellesley girl. Girls who get to be seniors without a man sometimes panic and hastily...
...Binger observes that women seek husbands avidly in college, and that this aim is so important that girls conceal it not only from others but from themselves. And he proceeds to assess the effects of young men's failure to provide the security and approbation the girls need...
...Binger is not concerned with these pressures, primarily, it seems, because he sees crises in terms of interpersonal relations rather than institutional conflicts. And even though he never says very much about the effect education should have on its victims, he shows an acute sense of the defects of any solution a girl may find. For half a page he explores the hazards of steady relationships, then he says...