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What a week for Harvard sexuality! This seems such an incongruous sentence--sexuality and Harvard in the same breath. But between those brightly colored posters ("Come on now, don't be silly, put a condom on your willy") emblazoned across kiosks and in stairwells and the computerized dating service brought to us by the Undergraduate Council and the Harvard Computer Society, our campus seems rife with overt sexuality--and rearing to go for Valentine's Day. For a college not known for its throbbing sex life, Harvard appears to be doing all right...
However, a closer examination of these two sexual phenomena--data match and Condom Week--reveals a slightly more complex picture. Whereas a cursory analysis of this week's Valentine's-Day-inspired activities would indicate carefree kids gone wild about sex and dating (and maybe if they're lucky, both), the underlying motivation behind Condom Week and Datamatch is significantly more conservative...
...McDonnell Douglas and Rockwell International facilities, and Largent is a staunch defender of the defense budget, even supporting a military exemption from budget cuts. He also sponsored the Parental Rights and Responsibilities Act to give parents control over when and how their children are exposed to sex education and condom distribution in schools...
...their children "shall not be infringed." The amendment, being pushed by the Christian right, is on the November ballot in Colorado, and has been proposed in 28 other states. If it ever becomes law, we will have school by daily plebiscite with creationists and evolutionists, liberals and conservatives, condom givers and abstinence advocates, prayer sayers and secularists playing out their agendas. If parents aren't willing to go in the other direction and collectively trust teachers to teach and discipline, a thousand little Johnnies will bloom and destroy what remains of public education. Say goodbye to Mr. Chips...
...Block the instructional "how to use a condom" page: http://www.safersex.org/condoms/howtouseacondom.html But not the rest of the safer-sex page: http://www.safersex.org...