The Catholic University of America has, of course, a
vested interest in making sure its students keep it in their pants -
after all, the Catholic Church is staunchly against premarital sex of
any kind. Of course, kids at university are usually pretty into
premarital sex, which puts this religious institution in a bit of a
bind. But now the president has an idea: He plans to convert all of the
university's dorms into single-sex housing.
CUA president John Garvey opined in a Wall Street Journal column last week, "Here is one simple step colleges can take to reduce both binge drinking and hooking up: Go back to single-sex residences."
"I know it's countercultural," he admits. But he cites several studies that have found students in single-sex dormitories are less likely to have sexual partners and binge drink on a regular basis. (Of course, it's possible that the kind of people who would choose single-sex dorms - or schools that have them - are already less likely to engage in those activities.)
What do you think? Would a single-sex dorm have made you chaste in college? Would you prefer your kids attended a school that kept them segregated from the opposite sex?
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