Conservatives love Fox News. And Rupert Murdoch loves conservatives, especially “social values” conservatives, because their loyal viewership makes him lots of money. Rupert Murdoch bought Myspace last year. The children of his Fox News viewers (not to mention children with other political persuasions) use Myspace (66 million registered users at last count). Rupert Murdoch sells “Naughty” adspace on Myspace that exploits those children. Rupert Murdoch is just one of hundreds of business execs who manipulate teens for profit. See for example, Merchants of Cool for a brilliant explanation of how the process works. In the parlance of Murdoch’s marketers (and Viacom and WB and others) , teenage boys are “mooks” and girls are “midriffs.” Still thinking through the whole accountability thing, but there’s gotta be something more than just the shrill fingerpointing of the so-called culture warriors. What do you think? Update: I’m suspicious this is not the answer. HT-  JDR

ATLANTA — Hispanic high school students use drugs and attempt suicide at higher rates than their black and white classmates, according to a new federal survey that shows a continuation of a disturbing trend.

The study is the latest in a series of surveys of U.S. high school students every two years. The new report noted that black and white students are reporting less sexual activity than in years past, but there was no decline among Hispanics.

In addition, Hispanic students were more likely than either blacks or whites to attempt suicide, ride with a driver who had been drinking alcohol, or use cocaine, heroin or ecstasy.

View the article here in the Santa Fe New Mexican

Why Wait? Because your worth it!

Next to freshman biology class, there is nothing more universal on college campuses than the “hookup scene.” It is simply expected that students from state schools to the Ivy League will experiment with premarital sex. In the words of one Harvard student recently quoted in the New York Times: “For me, being a strong woman means not being ashamed that I like to have sex.”

Well, surprisingly there are growing numbers of students who have a much different definition of what it means to be a strong woman (or man). It means not being ashamed to say that they would like to have sex, but choose not to.

A relatively new student group at Harvard called True Love Revolution has urged college freshmen to resist the hookup culture by passing out flyers that read: “Why wait? Because you’re worth it.”

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+More Resources and Articles: On Abstinence ;

Visit the +True Love Revolution homepage.

For more information, see the True Love Revolution page at Harvard College’s website.

Randall Patterson, +“Students of Virginity,” New York Times, 30 March 2008.

Zoe Sandvig, +“Putting ‘Sexy’ Back into Abstinence,” The Point, 2 April 2008.

Janie M. Fredell, “Abstinence: The New Pink?” The Harvard Crimson, 14 March 2007.

Michelle Miller, “College Students Embrace New Sexual Revolution on Campus,” The Leadership Institute, 19 April 2007.

Jesse Harlan Alderman, “Harvard Club Promotes Abstinence,” Breitbart.com, 22 March 2007.

Adrienne Richards, “Harvard’s True Love Revolution Takes Aim at ‘Mindless Sex,’” Wilkes Beacon, 26 march 2007.

Erin Flaherty, “That Chastity is So Hot Right Now,” Shine, 31 March 2008.

Elizabeth Anscombe, “Contraception and Chastity,” Orthodoxy Today, 1977.

BreakPoint Commentary No. 070214, “A Chaste Approach to Sex: Princeton’s Anscombe Society.”

Anna Broadway, +Sexless in the City: A Memoir of Reluctant Chastity (Galilee Trade, 2008).

A virus that causes cervical cancer is by far the most common sexually transmitted infection in teen girls aged 14 to 19, while the highest overall prevalence is among black girls — nearly half the blacks studied had at least one STD. That rate compared with 20 percent among both whites and Mexican-American teens, the study from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found.

View the study here

More on this later…..