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Love Sick...Continued from page 1

Michael Craven

Author, Speaker, Founding Director of the Center for Christ & Culture

More recently, the American Psychological Association (APA) reported that counselors on the nation's college campuses were seeing significant increases in severe psychological problems. "Counselors reported seeing double the number of depression cases and triple the number of suicidal students."

This is the most sexually liberated generation in American history and yet they are suffering psychologically unlike any other. For decades the academic and public consensus has been pushing the liberal sexual agenda and they have wreaked and continue to wreak havoc on countless Americans and society in general.

Recently, one academician has mustered the courage to challenge this agenda. Dr. Miriam Grossman, a psychiatrist working at UCLA has written the book, Unprotected: A Campus Psychiatrist Reveals How Political Correctness in Her Profession Endangers Every Student. Initially written anonymously due to fear of professional reprisal, Dr. Grossman has since gone public. In a recent interview on NPR, Dr. Grossman was asked, "How are America's college students 'unprotected'?" Her response says it all: "I believe the false security engendered by the notion of 'safer sex,' in an environment that promotes multiple casual encounters, endangers students."

Dr. Grossman went to describe the current conditions:

Students are immersed in a campus culture in which sexual behavior is commonly detached from emotional commitment. Parents need to familiarize themselves with the terms 'friends with benefits' and 'hooking-up.' If your daughter has a friend with benefits, she is in a relationship that occasionally includes sex, but is without any expectation of commitment or exclusivity. If your son 'hooks up,' he has sexual encounters in which there is no expectation of seeing one another again.

As Dr. Grossman points out these behaviors are now the norm on most college campuses. "Depending on the study, 40-80 percent of students 'hook-up,' and by graduation, the average number of these nearly anonymous encounters is ten. Yet we wonder why so many young people suffer from depression, anxiety, eating disorders, and self-abuse."

Interesting to me is the point Dr. Grossman makes in pointing out that "a young woman is not warned that she is hard-wired to attach through sexual behavior and that no condom will protect her from the heartache and confusion that may result."

When asked, "Are you more worried about the guys or the gals on campus?" Dr. Grossman's response is spot on:

Certain trends on campus are in my opinion detrimental to everyone, male and female. Political correctness marginalizes and silences those who think differently. The exaggerated place of sexuality is grotesque and destructive. That said; I more often see young women for whom the campus environment is toxic. I believe that for many of these women, the lack of stability and clarity in their intimate lives causes profound emotional damage.

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