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Fear of herpes obviously prods the trend along but explains the new caution only in part. In 1980, when herpes was just beginning to impinge on the nation's consciousness, a Cosmopolitan survey found that "so many readers wrote negatively about the sexual revolution, expressing longings for vanished intimacy and the now elusive joys of romance and commitment, that we began to sense that there might be a sexual counterrevolution under way in America." Cosmopolitan Editor Helen Gurley Brown, never one to miss a sexual trend, says, "Sex with commitment is absolutely delicious. Sex with your date for the evening...
Another important but unwelcome accelerator of the conservative trend is herpes. Since the late '70s, when it was often misdiagnosed as psoriasis, genital herpes has emerged as a major sexually transmitted ailment. Some 10 million to 20 million Americans have genital herpes, and an estimated 200,000 to 500,000 new cases appear each year. The one-night stand is now so risky that a couple interested in casual sex must get to know each other well enough to pop the herpes question?and believe the answer. Many sexologists think herpes is the chief reason for the new conservatism. Others...
...some freshmen boys arrive here asking, 'Where's the party? Where's the orgy?,' students today are more monogamous. There's not a lot of promiscuity. This is substantiated by the fact that we see very little gonorrhea and no syphilis." At Mount Holyoke, Senior Jennifer Shaw observes: "The trend for women is not to sleep with men they meet at parties." The one-night stand is as potentially entangling for men as in prerevolutionary days. "The women who have one-night stands are really looking for further commitment," she says. Nancy Boltz, a nurse at the University of Southern...
...think it’s going to be a heck of a challenge for us,” Amaker said. “A lot of teams in our league so far have fared better at home, and I hope that we can continue that trend.” The Crimson would likely benefit from fewer turnovers and improved work on the offensive glass, two key components of its game that hurt the team this past weekend. Amaker said he believes that these aspects of Harvard’s game “are the two things that we focus...
...sports-medicine professionals, that's a worrying trend. Hard-core training can do kids more harm than good--particularly if they're under 12. As more children are pushed beyond their physical limits, sports injuries once reserved largely for the pros are turning up in the playground...