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Date: Friday, December 15, 2006 9:58 am
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> LEISURE & ARTS
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> 'Unprotected'
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> Sexual freedom is damaging to students. But health officials must not
> judge.
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> BY DANIELLE CRITTENDEN
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> "My patients were hurting, they looked to me and what could I do?" So
> confesses an anonymous campus physician in the beginning of her
> startling memoir. Over the course of 200 pages, she tells story after
> story about suffering young women. If these women were ailing from
> eating disorders, or substance abuse, or almost any other medical or
> psychological problem, their university health departments would
> spring to their aid. "Cardiologists hound patients about fatty diets
> and insufficient exercise. Pediatricians encourage healthy snacks,
> helmets and discussion of drugs and alcohol. Everyone condemns
> smoking and tanning beds."
> Unfortunately, the young women described in "Unprotected" have fallen
> victim to one of the few personal troubles that our caring professions
> refuse to treat or even acknowledge: They have been made miserable by
> their "sexual choices." And on that subject, few modern doctors dare
> express a word of judgment.
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> Thus the danger of sexually transmitted diseases is too often
> overlooked in the lifestyle choices of the young women at the unnamed
> college where the author works. But the dangers go far beyond the
> biological. A girl named Heather, for instance, has succumbed to an
> intense bout of depression. The doctor presses her to think of
> possible causes. She can't think of anything. Then she says: "Well,
> I can think of one thing: since Thanksgiving, I've had a 'friend with
> benefits.' And actually I'm kind of confused about that." Heather
> continues: "I want to spend more time with him, and do stuff like go
> shopping or see a movie. That would make it a friendship for me. But
> he says no, because if we do those things, then in his opinion we'd
> have a relationship--and that's more than he wants. And I'm confused,
> because it seems like I don't get the 'friend' part, but he still gets
> the 'benefits.'" It finally dawns on her: "I'm really unhappy about
> that. It's hard to be with him
> and then go home and be alone."
> Heather is not an unrepresentative case. The author meets patients
> who cannot sleep, who mutilate themselves, who exhibit every symptom
> of psychic distress. Often they don't even know why they feel the way
> they do. As these girls see it, they are acting like sensible,
> responsible adults: They practice "safe sex" and limit their partners
> to a mere two or three per year.
> They are following the best advice that modern psychology can offer.
> They are enjoying their sexual freedom, experimenting, discovering
> themselves. They can't understand what might be wrong. And yet
> something is wrong. As the author observes, surveys have found that
> "sexually active teenage girls were more than three times as likely to
> be depressed, and nearly three times as likely to have had a suicide
> attempt, than girls who were not sexually active."
> And should all this joyous experimentation end in externally
> verifiable effects--should girls find themselves afflicted with a
> disease or an unwanted pregnancy--then (and only then) do their campus
> "women's health" departments go to work for them. They will book the
> abortion, hand out a condom or prescribe a course of antibiotic
> treatment. And then they will pat their young patients on the
> shoulder and send them back into the world, without an admonishing
> word about the conduct that got them into trouble in the first place.
> "Look at how different health decisions are valued," the author
> advises. "When Stacey avoids fatty foods she is being health
> conscious. . . . When she stays away from alcohol, she is being
> responsible and resisting her impulses. For all these she is endorsed
> for keeping long-term goals in mind instead of giving in to peer
> pressure and immediate gratification. But if she makes a conscious
> decision to delay sexual activity, she's simply 'not sexually
> active'--given no praise or endorsement."
> If anything, the more "transgressive" the behavior, the greater the
> reluctance to judge. On a University of Michigan Web site, "'external
> water sports' is described as a type of 'safer sex.'" (The phrase has
> nothing to do with a swimming pool.) At Virginia Commonwealth
> University, "cross-dressing is called a 'recreational activity.' " The
> sexual advice blog "Go Ask Alice," sponsored by Columbia University,
> provides helpful hints to students on ménages à trois ("Nothing wrong
> with giving it a try, so long as you're all practicing safer sex"),
> swing-club etiquette and phone sex ("Getting Started").
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> When the author treats Brian, a young homosexual man who is engaged
> in "high-risk behavior with multiple people," she discovers that, by
> policy, she cannot insist that he be tested for HIV. And if he were
> to submit to voluntary testing, and the tests were to prove positive,
> she would not be allowed to report this information to the local
> department of health--although of course she would be required to do
> so if he had contracted any other communicable disease. Isn't
> promoting health, even saving lives, "worth the risk of feeling
> judged?" Apparently not. And yet, not all judgments are to be avoided.
> The author of this vivid and urgent book has published it anonymously
> precisely because she fears that if her employers and colleagues heard
> her unwelcome views, they would judge her negatively--and punish her,
> personally and professionally. The anonymity, however understandable,
> is a shame: Her cause could use a visible and vocal crusader.
> Ms. Crittenden is the author of "What our Mothers Didn't Tell Us:
> Why Happiness Eludes The Modern Woman." "Unprotected" is available for
> sale at the OpinionJournal bookstore here.
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