Also by Miriam Grossman:
S&M, Ivy League Style
FrontPageMagazine.com, December 14, 2007
The scene was Princeton University's annual health fair. One table with sexual health information offered prizes for the winner of a raffle. To participate, a student must pick a question from a fishbowl, and answer it correctly.
One young man decided to take a chance. He handed the question to a woman behind the table and waited. "What's BDSM?" she asked. "B.D.S.M?" He shook his head. This hadn't been in his SAT review course. He was stumped. "Bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, sadism and masochism," she explained with a smile. More…
Chlamydia: Not in Vogue
CNS News.com, September 12, 2007
Hoping to be a parent or grandparent some day? Then you'll want to eliminate plastic wrap, canned fruit, and CDs from your life...According to the August issue of Vogue. More…
Media Mum on Oral Sex and Throat Cancer Risk Among Kids
CNS News.com, August 8, 2007
When it comes to prevention of a life-threatening illness, you remove the kid gloves and tell it like it is. Then why, I wonder, do we hear nothing of another widespread behavior associated with malignant tumors of the mouth and throat? More…
How Social Ideology Infects Campus Health Care 
Clare Booth Luce Policy Institute Policy Express No. 7-2 , March 2007
College campuses have long been centers of the country’s culture wars, and most expect competing ideologies and agendas to be openly debated in classrooms and throughout campus life. Few expect, however, to find agendas in the offices of their campus doctor or therapist. Yet a culture war of sorts exists here as well, with alarming psychological and biological consequences, particularly for young women. Download PDF file.
What Sex Week Forgot
Chicago Sun-Times, May 13, 2007
Kudos to Northwestern for recognizing the need to provide accurate information to students so they can safely navigate their sexual encounters. If only the "misconceptions" targeted by Sex Week—or the "taboo" and "hush-hush" topics discussed in lectures and workshops—had included the most critical issues facing this population. More…
Misery U: Hook-Up Culture Leaves Casualties
The Arizona Republic, May 4, 2007
Is there anyone left who still needs evidence that the world is upside down? If so, I've got it. Some of our most prestigious universities and health organizations that consider themselves guardians of our children's health and well-being are giving thumbs up to the very behaviors that place our kids at risk for disease. More…
Interviews with Miriam Grossman
Is Sex Making Students Sick? Interview (and review of Unprotected) in the Spring/Summer 2007 issue of the Institute of Marriange and Family Canada's IMFC Review. Full issue available online.
Interview with Warren Throckmorton, National Review Online, December 6, 2006
A superb storyteller, [Grossman] describes patients who do all the right things: They eat well, exercise, and structure their lives around getting a good education. What they don’t do well is manage healthy intimate lives. More…
Articles about Unprotected:
Campus Psychiatry Comes Clean
Robert VerBruggen, The American Spectator, December 6, 2006
Worst of all, the mental health profession is silent. There are no brochures, no policy statements from prominent organizations on the topic. The establishment is too focused on the dogmas that men and women are the same and sex with protection is harmless. More…
Sex and Consequences
Janice Shaw Crouse, Townhall.com/Concerned Women for America, January 10, 2007
Casual sex has consequences, and the steady flow of students crowding campus health centers is a clear indication that somebody needs to be telling young women the truth. Dr. Miriam Grossman has begun the enlightenment. More…