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     This article is not trying to provide 
     
     ready-made reasons for the novice to 
     
     start taking this additional estrogen. It 
     
     wants you to be aware of the complexity 
     
     of sexual involvement. i’lnevitably, at 
     
     university, you will be faced with “prob- 
     
     lems” or situations demanding your 
     
     decision on the matter of having. sexual 
     
     intercourse. At that time, thinking, under 
     
     pressure from the willing partner, be- 
     
     comes confused. Understand yourself; 
     
     This is your life. You must examine 
     
     your sexual dimension, make a decision, 
     
     and be prepared to face the consequences. 
     
     Be reasonable, not frustrated. Taking the 
     
     pill does not mean you will be an easy 
     
     lay, Whatever follows for you sexually 
     
     is up to you. 
     
    

    
     Some of you might fear trouble from 
     
     Your parents about your new prescrip— 
     
     tion. If you are under 19 years of age, 
     
     tell them it is to regulate you.-Amazing, 
     
     as it may seem, they will believe you 
     
     because they want to. Moreover," they 
     
     will be greatly relieved. 
     
    

    
     Another very important consideration 
     
     you must include is the danger of "getting 
     
     venereal disease. Did you realize it was 
     
     spreading on college campuses com- 
     
     Dletely out of control last year? Even 
     
     Time magazine said so. Undoubtedly, 
     
     this “free love” will have our best minds 
     
     effected by “gonorrhea” and"‘syphilis,” 
     
     1f they have not already been affected by 
     
     sOmething else." Very seriously though, 
     
    
   
   
    
     Y0u_ may not realize you have it because' 
     
    
   
   
    
     .the guy will be too ashamed, careless or 
     
     mconsiderate to mention it to you 
     
    
   
   
    
     the. college girl a 
     
    
   
   
    
     afterwards. He might think it was “some 
     
     other chic ”. His carelessness or yours 
     
     could leave someone (probably female) 
     
     sterilized in their later years. Females 
     
     who contact it will notice a gradually 
     
     \ heavier discharge, which may not present 
     
     any pain. Tliusyou could be a carrier 
     
     and not realize it until it is too late. 
     
     When you do suspect or realize that 
     
     you have it, see a doctor, be prepared to 
     
     “spread the ole legs for some cream” 
     
     and take your penicillin prescription 
     
     daily. It will go away. Student Health 
     
    
   
   
    
     would like the names of any persons? 
     
    
   
   
    
     you have been in contact with. If pos- 
     
     sible, you should comply here. It is 
     
     strictly confidential and a good way of 
     
     controlling this disease. You wonder: 
     
     how can you tell if he has VD? Ask him 
     
     beforehand and hope he is right. If you 
     
     are suspicious of his answer, stop or use 
     
     a rubber. 
     
    

    
     Be sure. , 
     
    

    
     With all these considerations, you may 
     
     wish there was no such thing as sex. 
     
     Actually, some doctors admit that every 
     
     time a woman has sexual intercourse, 
     
     she almost “takes her life in her hands.” 
     
     This risk includes her method of contra- 
     
     ception, abortion, or in child-birth. 
     
    
   
   
    
     However remote these endangering pos- r 
     
    
   
   
    
     sibilities may seem, they ought to be 
     
     clearly understood by all those who 
     
     indulge. So what makes it all worth- 
     
     while? 
     
    

    
     Why good, clean sex, of course. 
     
    

    
     The biggest problem with this is that 
     
     nobody really seems to know what 
     
     “good, clean” sex is. Poor woman, she 
     
     has been so misunderstood, mistreated 
     
     and misdirected in history by the male 
     
     psychologists, medical authorities, soci- 
     
     ety’s restriCtions, the nuclear family, 
     
     democracy and on and on. We must 
     
     realize that she is not faultless in causing 
     
     -and perpetuating this pattern and is 
     
     probably more to blame than anything 
     
     else. First, Freud and his women patients 
     
    
   
   
    
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     describe the female orgasm as one occur- 
     
     ring in the vagina. There are several 
     
     conclusions to be drawn from this. An 
     
     important one enforces the belief that 
     
     women have no great sexual desire alone 
     
     and must be pursued and encoixraged 
     
     by men for sexual stimulation (i.e. we 
     
     must be entered to have sexual release). 
     
    
   
   
    
     The discovery of the clitoris and 
     
     female masturbation came along to dis- 
     
     rupt these'beliefs. Quite probable, mas- 
     
     turbation and clitoral orgasms were 
     
     known before Masters and Johnson; but 
     
     it seems no woman would come out and 
     
     announce it. (Why should she? It would 
     
     be like trying to tell people that fart 
     
    
   
   
    
     intensity was significant in personal de- 
     
    
   
   
    
     velopment.) Clitoral orgasms are not 
     
     only working but overworking. Most 
     
     women can have four or five orgasms 
     
     while her partner is resting after his 
     
     first or second. Therefore clitoral 
     
     orgasms are not the supreme fulfilment 
     
     of female sexuality. Most women do not 
     
     know what that would be. Obviously, 
     
     there is only one way to find out and 
     
     that is not to passively be made “love 
     
     to.” 
     
    

    
     Much of your socializing this year 
     
     will probably be to ease or obliterate 
     
     your boredom. There are many things 
     
     to do on your own which will provide 
     
     more stimulus than forcing yourself to 
     
     date a male, just for the date. Boredom 
     
     can result in talking with someone and 
     
     saying nothing; yet, saying everything 
     
     you have to say but feeling nothing. 
     
     Regard your school year as if it was a 
     
     precious piece of grassy, dew covered 
     
     earth. You must accept it, but you can 
     
     do whatever you want to with it. You 
     
     can nurture it with knowledge, cover it 
     
     with manure, or dig it up for examina- 
     
     tion. Please, do not just stand there on 
     
     your land and watch nature die. 
     
    

    
     There is so much you can do for 
     
     yourself. For all of us. 
     
    
   
   
    
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