University of Pittsburgh: Students respond to SEXPO event
The Anscombe Society at the University of Pittsburgh has created quite a stir. In response to the university health center’s week-long event “SEXPO: Featuring Pop the Cherry”, Anscombe students distributed over 400 hand-made white tissue paper carnations with a message reading “Coach, Louis Vuitton, Versace, Love….Which do you prefer, real or counterfeit?” Students also handed out pamphlets extolling the benefits of premarital sexual abstinence and debunking commonly held myths regarding abstinence and those committed to it. Upon being asked to stop distributing these items, the students voiced their disagreement with the request, explaining that they were acting within university code and should be allowed to continue peacefully demonstrating. After issuing a press release about their activities, the students were able to sit down with university administrators and begin constructive dialogue regarding the role and contribution the students in the Anscombe Society can make to the university community, and to university sexual health services in particular. (Read the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article and editorial here.)
I read the pamphlet. The biggest factor (aside from no real statistics being shown) is this little paragraph:
“but for non-married couples, such bonds can cause serious prob-lems. When these relationships come to an end, the partners often feel a pal-pable sense of loss, betrayed trust, and unwelcome memories.”
Cause you know, break ups only hurt if you’ve had sex. No ones ever gotten upset over the non-sex related issues.
Come on. Break ups suck regardless of whether you had sex or not. Trying to paint it as harder is just disingenuous. (If you’ve never had sex, how would you know?)
“(If you’ve never had sex, how would you know?)”
FAB! You crack me up!