I usually only inflict my opinion on my children. However, over the past several weeks, the controversy surrounding the Sex & the U. column has caused me to want to share with other people’s children, too. Aren’t you lucky?
The first column I read, I found shocking — after all, I’m old, and where I come from, ladies and gentlemen don’t talk like that. After a discussion with my daughter, I decided that, like most of you young people’s parents, I had done my job, and she’s not a dummy. She can make her own decisions, and she wasn’t going to run out the door swinging.
What does concern me, though, is this: Things in print often carry more weight than they should and are accepted without question.
The idea that sex is just recreation or exercise is very dangerous. Thinking that way cheapens something very special. Sex can be a unique sharing between two people. It involves trust and intimacy not found in anything else.
Treating sex like recreation makes it no more important than going to a movie. Believe me, it is much more important and rewarding when viewed as the precious gift it is.
I still find the columns distasteful and vulgar, and I still think ladies and gentlemen don’t talk or act like that. But I also understand the giggle factor in them. I just don’t think they outline the best way to find happiness and contentment.
I hope future columns might discuss issues that concern more of the student body — like what’s everyone wearing to the sock hop?
— Lee Adams
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