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From: ix200@sdcc6.UUCP (Bruce Jones)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: New attitudes
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Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 22:36:51 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 14 22:36:51 1985
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Summary: 

In article <1893@burdvax.UUCP> kew@burdvax.UUCP (Karen Wieckert) writes:

>On the radio this morning I heard a report on a survey of a small 
>sample of Iowa college students. The survey showed a dramatic 
>decrease in casual sexual relationships for these students, compared 
>to the students of 5 to 10 years ago -- casual sexual encounters/
>relationships being defined as those in which marriage is not the 
>end goal. 

>Being a student of the "good old" sexual revolution days, I find this 
>decrease curious.  Don't get me wrong - the days of "sexual freedom and
>exploration" were not my idea of nirvana.  But it seems to me that 
>the young'ins of today have swung quite far from the attitudes 
>prevalent back then.  How come?  

Being a student holdover from the "'good old' sexual
revolution daze" myself I have noticed the same behavior.  I
see it as part of a larger movement towards conservatism and
a concommitant return to the values of the fifties.  
I originally started college in 1970, after some of the
activism of the sixties had cooled off, yet the sexual
revolution was in full swing.  Returning to school
in 1982 after a ten year hiatus I was shocked to see the 
changes that had taken place.  Today's students are more 
business/career oriented and less interested in the liberal 
arts.  It seems that all the old revolutionaries have slowly 
died off, to be replaced by Preppies bent on med or law school.  
The conservative sexual mores you are seeing are the by-product 
of a more conservative lifestyle and philosophy.

Bruce Jones