True love revolution

I just found a great new web site started by some Harvard University students. It’s called True Love Revolution and it’s all about why it’s important for college students—even college students at Ivy League schools—to wait for marriage to have sex.

The group hosts speakers on campus such as Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D., who tackle the topic “Smart Sex: Finding Life-long Love in a Hook-up World,” then rolls the messages to podcasts and downloadable audio so they can be listened to anytime. There are similar groups on other campuses such as Princeton, MIT, and Arizona State University.

The New York Times ran an article on the movement on college campuses. It’s called Students of Virginity by Randall Patterson (March 30, 2008). Check it out!

Thanks to Jackson Moore for his tip on this story.

Condom goal falls far short

First, let me apologize for a lapse in posting the past few weeks. I have started a new job with the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina as the new Creative Team Leader. I’m still taking graduate level classes in Communication at NC State University so life has been full. I’m sure you know what that’s like.

Anyway, a quote in a recent article by the Family Research Council entitled, Condom Culture’s Trojan Horse, jolted me back into the blogging mode. The statement? “About one in every five teens using condoms becomes pregnant within one year, according to the National Survey of Family Growth.” That means, even on the occasion that condom education induces teens to use condoms, they still, on average, get pregnant 20% of the time within one year. That’s rather amusing considering the constant attacks by condom promoters which suggest that abstinence education is not effective.

Read the entire story, which exposes the falacies in a recent full-page ad that Trojan condom company ran in major newspapers recently.