Kinsey Confidential
QUESTION: Hi, this may be a terribly awkward e-mail to read but here goes.
QUESTION: Hi, this may be a terribly awkward e-mail to read but here goes.
QUESTION: I recently lost my virginity to my boyfriend.
QUESTION: I am a guy who has never learned how to initiate sex in a new relationship. Consequently, most of the relationships in which I have been involved in the past few years have fizzled out into "just friends" friendships, which leave me cold, uninterested, and, above all, inexperienced and dissatisfied. What can I do to learn initiation of sex in new relationships in such a way that both I and my new partner are fine with the escalation?
QUESTION: My boyfriend and I have been dating for a while and have had sex, but lately he seems to be avoiding it.
When T.K. Walters walks across the stage and accepts his IU diploma, he will fulfill a lifelong promise to his mother that he would someday receive his bachelor's degree. What his mother might not have expected, however, is that her son would never have to set foot on the campus from which he would graduate.
A significant number of Americans believe in the power of psychiatric medications but far fewer would take them to help deal with their problems, according to a recent report released by IU's Consortium for Mental Health Services Research.
Students cast their votes Wednesday in the Residence Hall Association elections, marking the end to a week of being inundated by Griffin and Spark advertisements. Students were voting to appoint RHA executives for the 2006-2007 school years, as well as deciding on a referendum to approve a revision to the RHA constitution.
A recent bill the Indiana House of Representatives passed will permit Indiana driver's licenses and identification cards to include serious medical alert information. Senate Bill 0208, co-sponsored by Rep. Peggy Welch, D-Bloomington, aims to aid medical personnel in patient care when responding to emergency situations.
WASHINGTON -- The White House has spent more than three weeks trying to calm bipartisan outrage in the House and Senate over a Dubai-owned company's efforts to operate some U.S. port terminals.
The No. 33-ranked IU club baseball team opened its inaugural season with a hit, winning two out of their first three games in their series against Ball State.
Senior Cyndi Valentin on possible tournament berth: "I have no idea what the committee thinks. There are a lot of great teams out there so I don't really know."
Inside Assembly Hall on Tuesday night, the announcer of the intramural basketball finals attempted to recreate the atmosphere of an IU men's basketball game.
Everyone seems to be in a tizzy because "Crash" won best picture over "Brokeback Mountain" at the recent Academy Awards.
David Irving recently pleaded guilty to denying the Holocaust and was sentenced to three years in an Austrian prison. As the brownshirt historian serves time for expressing his opinions, it seems apt to note other entrenched forces fighting against First Amendment values. We are reminded of the great educator, Allan Bloom, who nearly 20 years ago published his seminal book, "The Closing of the American Mind." In it, Bloom criticized the narrow frame of debate abounding on America's campuses that excluded many opinions, whatever color shirt you happen to wear.
A new study by W. Bradford Wilcox and Steven L. Nock seems to suggest that women who agree with and enact traditional gender roles are happier than "progress-minded women."
Holy turn offs: God hates shrimp. God hates figs. God hates fags. God hates Christians and God hates America. Whoa, chill out God.
To call the wording of Indiana's 21st Century Scholars program "unfortunate" is probably little solace to "E.C.," a senior at a high school in Elkhart County in northern Indiana. Nevertheless, the program created and launched in 1990 by Sen. Evan Bayh, a Democrat who was governor at the time, is an amazing opportunity for some, but a tragic exercise in discrimination for others.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Three college students were arrested Wednesday for a string of nine rural Alabama church arsons last month that allegedly were set first as "a joke" and later as a diversion, federal agents said.
VIENNA, Austria -- Iran threatened the United States with "harm and pain" Wednesday for its role in hauling Tehran before the U.N. Security Council over its nuclear program and for plans to push fellow council members to impose tough measures against the Islamic republic.
Sachem Award -- Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels presents Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, president emeritus of the University of Notre Dame, with the 2006 Sachem Award, Tuesday, in Indianapolis. Daniels named Hesburgh, 88, as the recipient of the award, named for the Algonquin term applied to village leaders that implies wisdom, age and grace.