Interesting article in the New York Times Magazine from this past Sunday about student organizations at Harvard and Princeton that promote celibacy amongst students. A couple of things that I found particularly interesting:

1. You've got to love a campus situation that allows students the freedom (and the forum via student newspapers and debates) to express their opinions. For many college students, the "hook-up" culture is a way of life. It is accepted on most campuses and amongst a majority of college students. And yet here, at what many people decry as the bastions of liberalism, here are people expressing conservative Christian ideals, openly, and finding supporters among the student body.

2. I love that the woman in the article who is the "face" of Harvard's celibacy culture views maintaining ones virginity not as a necessity for being found attractive by a man, but as a sign of strength for women. Women can choose to be celibate before marriage. To follow the Bible's guidance on staying pure before marriage is a choice that some women in the 21st century make because it is what the believe is right not because they are afraid of what people might think if they had premarital sex, but in spite of what many of their classmates think. Because they think it is the right thing to do.

It's an interesting article from March 30th Sunday NYT Magazine and it just goes to show that at a time when many people, conservatibes and liberals alike are embarrassed and nauseated by so much focus on sex and celebrity and superficiality in society, people are thinking about the choices that we make as unmarried people and that maybe the path of premarital sex is not necessarily the correct one.