AT Women for Men, Suzanne Venker responds to the Obama administration’s new Council on Women and Girls, which is charged with lowering the incident of sexual assault on college campuses. According to the Obama, one in five college women are “sexually assaulted.” The President, who never misses an opportunity to pander to the feminist vote, is expected to mention this epidemic of college rape in his State of the Union address. College sexual assault is a serious problem, but, as Venker argues, the figures are highly misleading.

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Mary writes:

What a sad state of affairs. This is such a difficult topic. Our young people have been used as lab rats in this grand experiment called the sexual revolution, and this is one of the products of that experiment. This situation, along with epidemic levels of STDs, should give pause to every parent of every college-bound high school student in the country. If parents start refusing to send kids to schools that don’t offer protection in the form of restrictions on behavior, and reward schools that do by sending kids there, the schools would eventually have no choice but to listen.

There are different angles from which this topic can be approached. One angle would be to exploit the problem for political gain, as the Obama administration is clearly doing, for they are in the tricky position of trying to solve a problem the real solution to which can only mean flying in the face of liberalism. So instead they will just keep blaming guys.

Another, better approach would be to take steps to actually start solving the problem. Today. A couple of simple changes could be made on campuses to improve things immediately (and the time is ripe for change):

Serious measures could be taken to curb campus drug use and drinking. It is obvious to any reasonable person that drugs/drinking can do one of two things: lower defenses and make a person more malleable (often the female response), or make the person uncharacteristically aggressive/pugnacious (many males respond this way). Two very drunk people may have very different stories about what happened on a given night, if they can even remember what happened.

Strict penalties for viewing pornography (mostly a problem with men). It is addictive, overstimulating, and promotes unnatural and unrealistic ideas about human sexuality. Also prohibit plays and exhibits of a pornographic nature, or anything at all that encourages experimentation (these types of things are rampant).

Drive home this truth to young women: that even though they can now fight on the front lines with the guys, most men can still easily overpower them. As fun as partying is, they should stay sober. All the time. Getting hammered is just not that important to a girl’s happiness. Don’t accept drinks at parties because of the problem with drinks being spiked with drugs. Bring your own bottle of wine if you must. Sobriety is a woman’s first line of defense on campus.

Also drive home the fact that they should not be alone in dorm/frat house rooms with guys. I know this sounds hopelessly old fashioned but that is where most of these problems occur and where most STDs are passed along (not to mention pregnancies). Also, with the new technology they can be – and are – recorded/filmed/photograohed etc. at any point without being aware of it. I won’t go into details but suffice it to say that there were serious privacy issues on college campuses even before advanced technology.

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