Dayspring Brock is our newest TOBET blogger! Today she blogs about a hot topic on college campuses and in the public square, the idea of consent in sexual ethics. Most sex education programs approach sexual ethics like this: the goal is to reduce risky behavior and encourage young people to make autonomous, free choices. It…
At TOBET, one of the most frequent and desperate pleas for help that we hear concerns pornography. It’s snagging our young men, beginning around age 8 (and even some girls and women are being pulled in). If your son or grandson has a smartphone or tablet (without filtering software), be assured, he is seeing these…
“Like many young women, I wanted more than anything to attract men. I tried to fill the space inside of me with flirtations and flings and, truth be told, <sex>. I felt sure that if I persuaded a man to love me, I would feel complete, worthy. Of course, like many young women do, I…
Ideologues in our culture drive public discussion like they own the car. So just on principle, I refuse to write about the current turmoil-du-jour, The Bathroom Wars. Instead I choose the topic of modesty. modesty, adj. That looks like two different kinds of modesty: ego modesty and body modesty. Let’s begin with ego modesty, the…
Note: This post originally attributed the opening quote to the interviewer, Elaina Koros, rather than the author, Jonathan Eig. My apologies. The attribution has been corrected. “People have been trying to control birth since the dawn of sex. As long as we’ve been trying to make babies, we’ve been trying not to make babies.” —Jonathan Eig on…
The latest papal commotion about contraception surely has some people asking: “What’s the big deal?” They join the chorus that began when companies like Hobby Lobby went to court over being forced to cover contraception under Obamacare. Why in the world are people making such a fuss over contraception? Radio personality Garrison Keillor used to…
