Assistant Professor Donna Freitas, Boston University:

"Freitas helps readers understand the culture that has emerged on catholic campuses ...

By:

"Describing campus parties with themes like pimps and ho's, CEOs and office ho's, and golf pros and tennis ho's..."



A snippet from Anne Hendershott and Nicholas Dunn's exposé Hooking Up in publisher Fr. Joseph Fessio S.J.'s magazine Catholic World News -- CWR -- June 2010.

"A study finds that young women attending Catholic colleges and universities are almost four times more likely to have engaged in casual sexual encounters during college than their counterparts at secular colleges and universities

"But the question remains:

"Why are female students on Catholic campuses four times more likely to engage in casual sex than female students on secular campuses?

"A book titled Sex and the Soul: Juggling Sexuality, Spirituality, Romance, and Religion on America's College Campuses by Donna Freitas, assistant professor of religion at Boston University, reveals disturbing data about the coarsened culture on many campuses -- including Catholic campuses

"Describing campus parties with themes like pimps and ho's, CEOs and office ho's and golf pros and tennis ho's, Freitas helps readers understand the culture that has emerged on Catholic campuses over the past few decades. . .

"In 2005, DePaul University, the nation's largest Catholic university, became the first Catholic campus to offer a minor in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, transgendered, Queer (LGBTQ) Studies..."