Shut Up About Harvard

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Harvard Book Store welcomes sociology professor LISA WADE and JACLYN FRIEDMAN—author of Yes Means Yes and What You Really Really Want—for a discussion of Wade’s latest book, American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus.. This event was rescheduled from February 9, About American Hookup. The hookup is now part of college life.

It seemed to Fredell that almost no one had sex in Colorado Springs. And then Fredell arrived at Harvard. Then she began to read in The Harvard Crimson, the student newspaper, about a new student group on campus — a band of celibates, men and women, calling themselves True Love Revolution. They were pushing, for reasons entirely secular, the cause of premarital sexual abstinence, and Fredell, by this time, was utterly committed to abstinence.

She could hardly bear to see it ridiculed in The Crimson. She began to feel a need to stand up for her beliefs, and what she believed in more than anything at Harvard was the value of not having premarital sex. She would join True Love Revolution. Only 21 years old, she had spoken with a number of reporters and been on CNN.