Monday, November 3, 1986
Daily Nebraskan
Page 5
Letters
Doctor advances 'distorted'
theory on sexuality, student says
Dr. Helen Fisher's views on the evolutionary aspects of
human sexuality (Daily Nebraskan, Oct. 31) have some
serious flaws. As a typical social "scientist," she advances
"scientific" theories which Invariably fail to adequately
explain a highly complex subject. It Is a poor reflection on
academia that someone can receive a Distinguished Service
Award for advocating such drivel.
First of all, she says that man is a "sexual animal"
because of bipedal evolution (standing up on two legs).
The charcteristic that makes man unique in nature is the
presence of a rational and highly developed mind. Imagine
sexuality devoid of such concepts as intimacy, communica
tion and metaphysical love (putting someone else's inter
ests ahead of your own). No animals are capable of using (or
abusing) sexuality to the same degree humans are. There
are lots of animals (even four-legged ones) who "flirt" and
engage in sex, but they can never experience love and
intimacy in the same way as humans.
Evolutionary theory cannot by itself account for this
metaphysical difference between man and animal. Humans
are capable of intimacy because the Creator has graciously
endowed them that way how H did it remains a mystery.
And theory that does not allow for this unique human gift is
necessarily myopic and distorted. As Fisher herself said, her
theories are just that theories.
Tim Teebken
senior
arts and sciences
Negative politacal advertisement
serve to enlighten the voters
Like so many other newspapers, the Daily Nebraskan has
added its voice to the outcry over the negative advertising
that allegedly characterizes so many political races both in
and outside of Nebraska. Even assuming that negative
political advertising is the order of the day, I do not under
stand why it causes such an outcry.
Kay Orr has undoubtedly engaged in negative advertising
by running one commercial after another emphasizing that
Helen Boosalis supports legislation that calls for increasing
the state sales tax without guaranteeing any property tax
relief. Mrs. Boosalis has been forced to respond. In other
words, Orr's ads have done what political ads ought to do:
provide the voters with information and engender public
debate on substance rather than image.
We all know that we'll get in the 30-second "positive" ad:
a patriotic jungle and a plea to "vote for me because I'm a
nice person." If nothing else, negative ads ads that
highlight the other candidate's stands at least ensure
that the candidates cannot hide behind glittering generali
ties and that the voters at least get some information with
which to evaluate the rhetoric.
At some point, the candidate on the receiving end may
cry "foul." Before we being feeling sorry for that candidate
and bemoaning how "negative" the campaign has become,
let's remember that crying foul is often another way of
saying, "I've been found out."
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AIDS causes new -sexual attitude
GOODMAN from Page 4
For most Americans, the sexual
revolution was not a vast national orgy
of swingers. There was never wide
spread approval of adultery or promis
cuity. The revolution evolution is a
careful to avoid pregnancy. Sex is okay
IF no one gets hurt.
This morality was riddled with our
own upbringing and uncertainty. It
demanded, among other things, that
better word appeared rather as a our young behave maturely, perhaps
in the context of a caring relationship, education in the schools. It will be
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massive questioning of the double
standard and the sexual constraints we
grew up with.
Through this time of change many
Americans held to the belief that there
was only one moral form of sexual
expression: between husband and wife.
But more, especially in the baby-boom
generation, evolved a more liberal and
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In current life patterns, when there
,is a gap of 1 0 or even 1 5 years between
puberty and marriage, we no longer
expected celibacy or condemned pre
marital sex. There grew up what has
been called conditional approval of
sex. The notion runs something like
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an age at which they are no longer
gaily our children. Sex is okay IF it is
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even more maturely than we. Many of
us found it difficult to communicate
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slow to share experiences and suspi
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tors, told our young.
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Americans, mostly homosexuals and
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no one gets hurt" has been summar
ily removed.
How quickly parents and society can
retreat to a one-word warning: Don't.
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that paves the way for thorough sex
who struggled out of one sexually
repressive era find themselves anx
iously ushering in another. Add one
more sad entry onto the list of AIDS
side effect: We may once again teach
our children to be afraid of sex.
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