I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but there seems to be a nearly tangible divide between certain groups of college students. There’s the involved and the uninvolved, the passionate and the ones who are just trying to appease their parents, the drinkers and the non-drinkers, and the sexually active and those who are waiting until marriage.

While I respect a person’s right to choose when they are going to have sex, I’ve realized something lately: it’s a really bad idea to wait until marriage. The thought itself is lovely – being penetrated for the first time on your wedding night, surrounded by candles, with the man who is wearing a ring on his left finger that matches yours –  but logically speaking, it’s not quite that simple, and definitely not that practical. It’s also incredibly naive.

First off, something a lot of people are too afraid (or too “nice”) to admit – sex is a huge part of a relationship. I’m not trying to patronize virgins, but maybe when you haven’t had sex yet, you don’t realize how true that is. Being intimate and sharing those vulnerable naked moments are important for getting to know someone as a whole. Who someone is as a person and who they are sexually can sometimes be completely different. Would you really want to marry someone who has an entire part of their being that remains a mystery to you? Read More »

You’re thinking this weekend you will most likely score big. You’ve been playing footsie with your desired hookup during class and you’ve been invincible pong partners now for a good month. Of course you want to do it smart, so you head over to the student union, grab some free condoms and store them in your desk drawer in case the opportunity to use them arises. And if indeed it does (yay for you), you’ll be completely safe. No worries, right?

Well if you’re a student at Cambridge University that would be a big, fat bun in the oven no.

Recently students were issued a warning after a junior found tiny pinpricks in condoms supplied by the student union. Yes, tiny pinpricks that are more than big enough to allow a couple hundred sperm to go shimmying up your vaginal canal and send you on a 9-month track to motherhood. The exact thing you were trying to avoid in stocking up on those little rubbers in the first place.

So the logical question is, how did this happen?
Already, some are blaming the university’s religious groups for sabotaging the condoms. And that ish is just crazy. Read More »