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Take the recently formed and oft-cited Harvard student group, True Love Revolution. The group seeks to promote premarital abstinence among Harvard students and to provide a support network for its members. Never mind True Love Revolution’s cause—if someone wishes to save coitus for...
In promoting the values of abstinence, True Love Revolution has abandoned old norms. It purports to be nonsectarian, and on its website, a major justification the group provides for waiting on sex is that abstinence reduces one’s chance of pregnancy or sexually transmitted disease. Additionally, the group?...
Whether or not that unsubstantiated assertion is true is immaterial. The significance of True Love Revolution’s justification lies in the fact that the group never mentions morality as a reason to wait, save a few oblique references to some members possibly choosing abstinence for religious reasons. At...
For example, do people honestly think that Harvard is unique in the fact that an abstinence movement exists on its campus? If so, it’s a naive thought: Despite what its name might suggest, “True Love”—or in reality, the...
“I’m waiting to do some big hall with kids screaming,” Patti said in that same 1976 interview. “To me, that’s the ultimate in rock and roll.” She could have been a new...