Politics
Thursday April 23, 2009
Catholic St. Mary's College "Sex & Candy" Talk Calls Premarital Sex " a Learning and Growing Process"
TODAY'S HEADLINES
E-MAIL
PRINT
By Kathleen Gilbert
SOUTH BEND, Indiana, April 22, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - An event dubbed "Sex & Candy" Monday invited young women at the Catholic St. Mary's College to discuss premarital sex, which was discussed as a "learning and growing process," reported the Notre Dame Observer Tuesday.
The dorm-wide panel discussion at Holy Cross Hall invited women to eat chocolate candy and chocolate-covered strawberries as they were encouraged to receive STD screening and build relationships with their sexual partners.
The talk was hosted by Health Center staffer Cindy Horton-Cavanaugh and Women's Health director Cathe DeCleene.
"Being sexually active is a learning and growing process," Horton-Cavanaugh told the Observer. "A good age to have sex is when you are emotionally ready."
The Tribune also reports the panel encouraged women to be "empowered" in their sex lives, and to consider forming a friendship with someone before beginning a sexual relationship.
Though the talk attempted to dispel myths about sex perpetuated by explicit television shows, the talk ended with a showing of the CW television show "Gossip Girls." The show boasts in an advertisement that the Parents Television Council considers the series "mind-blowingly inappropriate" for sexual content.
Both the Health Center and St. Mary's College president, Dr. Carol Mooney, did not respond to LifeSiteNews.com's requests for comment.
To express concerns:
Carol Ann Mooney, J.D.
Office of the President
St. Mary's College
Notre Dame, IN 46556
phone: 574-284-4602
email:
Back to TopLatest Headlines
- Appeal Filed to Give D.C. Voters Right to Vote on Gay “Marriage” Law
- San Francisco Chronicle: “Open Secret” That Prop. 8 Judge is “Gay”
- Cardinal George Denounces "New Ways Ministry" as Pseudo-Catholic Organization
- Vatican: Population Growth is a Means of Overcoming Poverty, Not a Cause of It
- “Bogus Compassion” is Killing Children and Corrupting Society: Belgian Philosopher
- Indian Court Rules Born and Unborn Are Equal
- United Nations Urges Nicaragua to Legalize Abortion
- Vatican Consultant Responds to 'Completely Ignorant' IPPF Accusation
- Irony: 19-Child Duggar Family Renting Former Home of Local Planned Parenthood Leader
- Document Reveals Inconsistencies in ND's Jenkins Claims on ND88
- New Country Music Star Born as Pro-Life Ballad Climbs the Charts
- Commentary on February 8 News
- Police Refuse to Release Federal "Threat Assessment" on Wis. Pro-Lifers
- Canadian Human Rights Commission Appeals Ruling against Hate Messages Statute
- Homosexual Activist Keith Norton Dies at 69
- Letters to the Editor
Most Read this Week
- Veterans, Former Army Legal Chief Defend “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
- Planned Parenthood President Lands Spot on Ford Foundation Board
- Rabbis Warn against 'Disaster' of Open Homosexuality in the Military
- Football Pros Give Support to Tim Tebow Super Bowl Ad
- Clash of the Abortion Titans: Planned Parenthood Launches 'Pro-Choice' Football Ad
- Canadian Station Pulls Pro-Life Ad – Too “Graphic”
- Hijacking the Brain — How Pornography Works
- Group Exposes Media "Fraud" at March for Life
- U.S. Sisters in Crisis after Embracing “Secular Culture”: Vatican Cardinal
- NYT: Rampant Polygamy in Gay 'Marriage' May Benefit Institution
MORE NEWS: 
LifeSiteNews.com Home Page Last 10 Days Archives Special Reports
Copyright © LifeSiteNews.com. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivatives License. You may republish this article or portions of it without request provided the content is not altered and it is clearly attributed to "LifeSiteNews.com". Any website publishing of complete or large portions of original LifeSiteNews articles MUST additionally include a live link to www.LifeSiteNews.com. The link is not required for excerpts. Republishing of articles on LifeSiteNews.com from other sources as noted is subject to the conditions of those sources.