[Celtjew Libertarian]

I don't know about UM, but Northwestern gives a "personal survival pack" to each student, either every quarter or every year (not sure which). The "personal survival pack" contains three condoms, some K-Y jelly, and a piece of candy "to represent the fact that some students choose abstinence". (Why don't they include a water pistol and a soap bubble toy, to complete the patronizing insult?)

Dang, the "personal survival" pack when I went to Michigan in the 80s included things like soap, deodorent, and toothpaste. Which, come to think of it, are also useful, if you wanted to get laid.

So, I ended up dating the only leftist who didn't believe in premarital sex. Go fig.

[expatpat]

Hopefully you didn't date her for long.

[RockinRye]

Bagging altogether for a minute the issue of abstinence, these 'survival packs' and sex courses are not education - they're sex instruction.

The real shame is that they aren't teaching college kids how to have psychologically healthy sexual relationships. It's more like encouraging binge drinking for the netherregions. Then if you feel any regret, they tell you to liberate from twentieth-century thought.

And it all fits in with the self-gratifying attitude of modern American elitism. I think the Europeans just don't care anymore about bourgeouis middle-class mores, but in America they've been rationalizing and glorifying this sort of stuff for too long.