The makers of Trojan brand condoms recently released their 2007 Sexual Health Report Card based on sexual health awareness programs, condom & contraception availability, web-based sexual health information.
You want the good news? The condom guys said that Catholic Universities actually did quite poorly. Thank God for small miracles. Just when you thought Catholic colleges were going to hell in a hand basket they go and mess up on a test given by condom manufacturers. Maybe they’re still Catholic, after all. Just a little anyway.
Out of 139 schools, Catholic colleges were maligned for not demonstrating “well- evolved” sexual health programs and were the least sexually healthy schools, according to the condom manufacturers.
103 Providence College
109 University of Notre Dame
115 Georgetown University
120 Boston College
122 DePaul University
133 University of Central Florida
135 Villanova University
I was pretty stunned to see that Georgetown was not receiving a medal from the condom manufacturers. Good for them to do so poorly. I think this just means they didn’t actually hand condoms out with the freshman’s acceptance letter. But hey, we’ll take improvement where we can get it.
November 29, 2007 at 3:48 pm
Does “sexually healthy” mean having an active sex life (sexually integrated)? Does it mean multiple partners (embracing diversity)? Does it mean a high abortion rate (open mindedness)?
Pray tell what is the definition of sexual health?
I have no doubt Trojan would maintain that chastity is a type of sexual disease or sexual deviancy and is therefore “unhealthy”.
Imagine how “low” these schools would be on Trojan’s list if they had maintained their truly catholic identities from the 60s until the present?
November 29, 2007 at 8:15 pm
Nice to see Notre Dame finally ranking higher than Georgetown…oh wait, it’s not a good thing.
Snark aside, Georgetown doesn’t allow the sale or distribution of condoms on campus or university-owned property. There’s an unofficial student group called “H*yas for Choice” (the university also won’t allow them to use “Hoyas”) that distributes them on rare occasions in the “free speech zone” of Red Square but that’s about it.
November 30, 2007 at 3:05 pm
What’s the pregnancy rate at these schools?
December 3, 2007 at 6:49 pm
I fail to see why ignorance would be praised here… as a health issue, even students in monogamous relationships would profit from information. Though the idea that Georgetown has a “Red Square” is funny – I thought that all information flowed from 1600.