Letters to the editor

Students should abstain from sex

To the editor:

The May 27 issue of the Santa Clara contained an editorial promoting "protected" sex. It continually amazes me that people who are appropriately concerned about the eating disorder of bulimia can at the same time find casual sexual activity acceptable.

"Kids" is not a "dreadful word," as the author of the above mentioned article suggested. Kids are a natural result of sex, just as the digestion of food and the nourishment of the body are natural results of eating. We are disturbed when students binge and then cut the eating process short by vomiting or using laxatives (bulimia). With only a moment of thought the parallel is clear. Students have lost respect for their bodies and lost contact with the significance, meaning and purpose of sex, endangering their bodies and lives in the process. Throughout the millennia, sex has been the natural glue holding together the family unit. We have degraded, abused, and misused it.

To the supposedly 56 percent of students that "have sex" (hopefully a smaller percentage at this university, as Catholic students live out their faith): Respect your bodies. Abstain for now. You won't regret it.

Rebecca Gorman

Marketing '04