Word: sexualizing
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...alarming increase in the number of chlamydia cases treated at University Health Services (UHS) in the first three months of 1998. This prevalence rate exceeded the figure provided for the greater Boston area by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. With over 60 percent of students on campus reporting sexual activity (Aids Education & Outreach survey, Fall 1998), the response to this report was surprisingly muffled...
However, on the one year anniversary of the UHS report, the TV newsmagazine 20/20 contacted officials at UHS to solicit interviews for a report they were planning on airing, one which would uncover a supposed epidemic of sexually transmitted infection (STIs) at Harvard. The reality is that Harvard lies somewhere in the middle of this spectrum of alarm--on one hand, last spring's UHS report should awaken Harvard students to the fact that they are not immune to sexually transmitted infections; on the other, the prevalence of STIs on the Harvard campus should not elicit irrational alarm. Rather...
...fact that students are not talking about STIs is not surprising. Many students on campus are not sexually active. Sexually active students often feel uncomfortable discussing these sensitive and private issues, even with their doctors. Infections occur as a result of this silence. At the other extreme, some student perceive themselves to be invulnerable to infection, whether it be because they believe that their sexual activity is limited to members of an insolated community or because they don't think that infection can happen to them. The myth that Harvard students are not at risk for contracting STIs must...
Whether it was sexual taboos in Lolita or individual and societal violence in A Clockwork Orange, Kubrick used his films to examine the unspoken problems in our modern world, to step back and look honestly at the issues no one wanted to confront in the open. We'll look for the same fierce realism in Eyes Wide Shut, his last movie, due in July and starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman (see clip below). In a way, Kubrick was the most moral of filmmakers because he was not afraid to be called immoral, not afraid to tred where audiences didn...
Boone encouraged students to come out eventually, however, and to be open about their sexual orientation. Boone said he believes the closeted nature of homosexuality may heighten homophobia...