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Should professors help their students learn about relationships?

March 5, 2013 by Andrea Mrozek 2 Comments

I think I agree with this assessment–that professors should focus on subject material except where students come looking for mentorship, which, I would hope does happen, but outside the classroom.

The problem with this article: Chief amongst the learning men and women get from casual hookups at a fertile age is pregnancy. And what do we do there? Encourage couples not to learn, but rather, to abort the learning, all because sex seemed like a good idea after a couple of drinks.

Of course, abortion brings with it it’s own hard lessons. However, as any Silent No More woman will tell you, the learning remains buried often for many years (which is why many Silent No More women are already in their 40s, 50s and beyond).

Yes. Our hook-up culture does indeed allow us to learn. But I won’t raise my glass to that, because it’s a painful, tear-filled lesson for so many.

 

 

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  1. Melissa says

    March 5, 2013 at 12:59 pm

    “Let them hook up. It’ll be educational.”

    Well, I don’t know how on earth anyone could propose to *prevent* them from hooking up. We’ve had free choice ever since we came to exist on this planet. But at the same time, I don’t think it is a good idea to endorse hook ups, or even to condone them.

    It seems to be that, if you so much as suggest that a hook up is anything less then a super-dee-duper-awesome-idea, you are automatically dismissed as being a buzzkill, a prude, or (gasp in horror) judgmental. I think it would be a good idea if societies grownups would, you know, be grown up, and not promote perpetually adolescent behaviour. The first comment from the Maclean’s article says it better than I could hope to:

    as a health care professional, I don’t endorse or recommend the message of let these young people learn the tragic consequences of life through experience, instead of learning from other’s mistakes and trusting the information provided by those who have been trained to help them avoid serious health issues, I’ve seen far too many problems associated with this philosophy, preventative measures and promoting that will always have a better health outcome for all involved. Now will this age group continue to take risks and learn by sad experience? Of course they will, the difference is whether I promote that lifestyle, or do my best to provide information and education to help them avoid serious damage to their (and possibly their partner’s) health and quality of life, or do I promote “casual sex” because that’s “educational”

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  2. David says

    March 6, 2013 at 6:18 pm

    When one assumes that ‘choice’ is the ultimate value and assumes that ‘choice’ is doing whatever one wants whenever one wants then it necessarily follows that ‘hookups’ have to be ‘educational’. However, one can never do whatever one wants whenever one wants. If the columnist had thoroughly thought about this ‘choice’ idea its’ irrational nature would have revealed itself and seeing choice as license might have been reassessed. Study about choice can lead to wrestling with the idea of freedom instead of license. Such study might work out to looking at what once was seen as education; the raising up, rearing, developing and maturing through instruction, instead of seeing education as the random crashing about and responses to consequences.

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