Women “Unprotected” on College Campuses

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Unprotected: A Campus Psychiatrist Reveals How Political Correctness in her Profession Endangers Every Student
by Miriam Grossman MD

Miriam Grossman, a courageous psychiatrist at the University of California at Los Angeles Student Psychological Services, is sounding an alarm bell 40 years too late, a bell that conservatives have been urging America to heed. But late is better than never. In her 2007 book Unprotected, she chronicles the myriad ways in which “radical politics pervades my profession, and common sense has vanished.”

Grossman originally published this book as Anonymous MD, fearing for her UCLA job and for her private practice. But soon she realized that she would be a much more effective spokesperson for her cause if she revealed her real identity, which she did on the Dr. Laura Schlessinger radio show.

That she was afraid in the first place shows the tyrannical nature of the academic left in America today… intolerant, all-controlling, harassing and intimidating people who disagree with its point of view.

Grossman explains how college campuses today are encouraging sexual promiscuity among students, a behavior that spreads disease and causes emotional turmoil. And despite their focus on “safe sex”, Grossman says that many students still contract sexually-transmitted diseases (STDs) and then seek out counseling as if they do not know what has happened.

In fact what Grossman is describing is completely expected. Because today’s ‘hook-up’ culture of campus sexuality, propagated by the 1960s leftists who run our universities, is intended to do one thing: To disorient people at an early age, and to sway them away from ideas like conservative values and moral boundaries. And it succeeds. Because sexual contact at a young age without a deeper knowledge of its real ramifications frequently leads people to depression, loneliness, confusion and often, childlessness.

And this is all done in the name of momentary pleasure which the left persistently promotes in its disdain for the meaningful aspect of life – hard work, family, piety, morality, sacrifice and a feeling of inclusion in a wider community — in favor of instant gratification, the touchstone of worldwide socialism.

Grossman talks about one young woman who had a casual sexual encounter with a guy whom she was really attracted to. A few weeks later, he stopped calling her. Devastated, the woman began drinking heavily. She realized that she had been betrayed, which is a common outcome of the ‘hook-up’ culture that liberals dismiss.

Grossman reports that at least 40% of sexually active undergrads nationwide have had such negative experiences. Having grown up with TV shows like ‘Friends’ and ‘Sex and the City’, in which promiscuity is portrayed as merely amusing or titillating, Grossman reports that many girls are led to believe that they can partake of casual sex because the TV characters never are shown paying the price of their behavior. After all, it is only Hollywood.

And while colleges have declared war on fast food, alcohol and Big Tobacco, Grossman notes that they are encouraging the more dangerous and infinitely more  emotionally devastating effects of the campus sexual culture, leaving students “unprotected”.

Grossman even is so generous as to claim that her health-service provider peers “are well intentioned and care deeply about their patients”. But that is false and Grossman is naive. These providers have a very intentional and politically biased view of what it means to “care”. What they really believe is that “caring” is accommodating any worldly desire that fits their political template.

But Grossman saw the negative effects, which should be evident to any rational observer. Said Grossman: “Why is it fine for me to care about my patents’ lungs and their arteries, but not their reproductive future, and their hearts and minds?”

The answer is quite simple: Because she had become part of the left-wing intellectual culture that is trying to degrade hearts and minds, and to convert young people to narcissist socialism.

“It’s not smart to ‘hook up’, especially for women,” Grossman warns.

What Grossman finds alarming is how positively oriented so many students are to getting good grades, eating well and working out, yet they neglect the serious side effects of sexual promiscuity including confusion about the nature of love, romance and true meaning in relationships. Depression is a common side effect, particularly among girls, she notes.

“The message must get out; casual sex is a health hazard for young women,” Grossman states.

Citing the Columbia University Health Services website, Grossman was shocked that it covers the “health risks of bestiality” (sex with animals), how to clean up blood stains on a sexual tool used in sadomasochism, and how to get started with phone sex (sexually-charged conversation on the telephone).

No mention is made on the website of childbearing, or of the association between casual sex, sexually-transmitted diseases, abortion and depression. Visit the Columbia website at www.goaskalice.com to see this vicious stuff.

Grossman also notes that college health services are forbidden to report homosexuals’ HIV cases to public health officials for fear of stigma. The reason is that ‘nonjudgmental’ leftist ideology drives these services, so no single group like homosexuals can be singled out for notice. The result is more disease and death.

At UCLA, Grossman says that students frequently are urged to discuss early psycho-traumas in life, while incidents like abortion are treated like everyday events.

Her peers persistently advocate birth control, and focus on preventing sexually-transmitted diseases (STDs), while the outcome of the practices they advocate frequently are abortion and the spread of STDs.

Grossman notes with great concern that the whole idea of childbearing is not only not discussed, but it is actively discouraged as part of the anti-family agenda of abortion/feminism/promiscuity.

Notices about sexual hooking-up seminars are routinely posted on college campuses. Events like Sex Week at Northwestern University speak about a wide array of topics, but in the end, little mention is made of herpes, human papilloma virus, gonorrhea and almost 700,000 abortions performed annually on girls under 25. The focus is on encouraging “safe sex”.

And in advocating “safe sex”, students are encouraged to discuss sexual histories with any potential partners. But often the diseases are not evident and can be passed on easily. Condoms are advocated but often fail or do not protect against STDs.

Ironically – or rather typically – the leftist/feminist campus juggernaut refuses to recognize that the victims of casual sex are overwhelmingly female.  What is noteworthy is that modern-day feminism first advocates this wild sexual abandon, and then goes to the other extreme where one cross-eyed glance at a female co-worker is grounds for a sexual harassment charge. This is part of the manic-depressive swing of socialist thinking.

Grossman saves her particular concern for the issue that she thinks is the most overwhelming negative social outcome of the hook-up culture and that is infertility. As feminists encourage careers and casual “safe” sex where pregnancy is the enemy, women often neglect the whole idea of childbearing until it is too late.

They become victims of one of the great myths of our time, says Grossman, and that is the false timeline of fertility that leads many women to put off childbearing until their late 30s or later. They are lulled by the stories of the Romanian woman giving birth at 62 or the movie star conceiving after 50. But Grossman warns that these are the exceptions, and that older women usually are able to give birth only after risky and expensive fertility treatments.

In the campus hook-up culture, Grossman sees the seeds of one of the most serious social crises in America, and that is the crisis of millions of barren women who find themselves aging and alone in the world without husband or children. She describes the sad case of one client who became more and more emotionally distraught as she discovered the true nature of her state.

Happily, with the demise of the 1960s culture, Grossman cites an encouraging 2007 survey in the Chronicle of Higher Education in which 75% of students said that their highest priority is “raising a family”. This is good.

When asked what she thought the effect of the book would be on her job, Grossman said in 2007, “It’s too early to say, we’ll have to wait and see.”

Imagine that? Threatened by the left… So what else is new.

Grossman said she “would like to see war declared” on the campus hook-up culture akin to the war being waged on cigarettes, alcohol, obesity and fast food. But she sees the universities resisting change.

Socialism is irrevocably dedicated to the pleasure culture which, in the end, is not a pleasure culture at all. Like the alcoholic who may have a wonderful time partying through college, he or she may finally realize that it was not fun at all. Liberals do not want to deal with the outcome of their pleasure obsession, however. They are more interested in undermining students’ respect for the traditional family and its conservative values. And that is the greatest tragedy of all.

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