<p>Hmm, I never really made the connection, but I married into a Catholic family and they are really big drinkers. </p>
<p>The phrase “hooking up” describes a pretty broad range of behavior, especially for kids. I know we parents tend to think it means intercourse, but that’s not what it generally means when kids use the phrase. I wonder if the researchers took that into account.</p>
<p>The Irish Roman Catholics in the Boston area have the reputation of being heavy drinkers and it was something that I saw at BC way back when.</p>
<p>Up in Mass where my college is the Catholic girls wouldn’t go to the health center to get birth control like others because they said then sex would be premeditated. Not sure what mentality is these days as this was back in the 70’s.</p>
<p>dke - plenty of Catholic women use “birth control”. Sometimes for a medical reason and sometimes for birth control.</p>
<p>While there are some denominations that forbid alcohol - Southern Baptist is one, as well as LDS; there is nothing in Catholic Doctrine that forbid alcohol comsumption.
I think Catholics drink about as much as Episcopalians.</p>
<p>I am going out on a limb here - I have no idea who Robin Hanson is or the motives for this “study”. I never heard of the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion and don’t know the motives here but I <em>suspect</em> this is a thinly veiled attempt by some Fundamental Protestants to discredit Catholics and Catholicism. You know who they are the one’s who loudly proclaim to be Christain when you tell them you are Roman Catholic. </p>
<p>There are plenty of Catholic colleges and Universities - the majority do not have special “rules” that prevent unaccompanies male/female relationships.<br>
Why? They are adults and treat them as adults - even with <em>temptations</em> to sin.
Some will and some won’t. </p>
<p>atomom is correct that there is a large contingent of “Catholics” who call themselves Catholics but do not actively practice their faith. My kids call them “Christeaster’s” and they are very easy to pick on on Christmas Eve and Easter sunday. Being “raised” Catholic does not an adult Catholic make.</p>
<p>I have one daughter who attended and graduated from a Catholic University. The student body largely identified themselves as Catholic - 80%. Over 90% lived on campus. Most kids came from upper middle class Catholic families and attended Catholic schools K-12.
There was a large contingent on campus of those who partied, drank and “hooked up”. Some practiced their faith and some did not. However, there was also a large contingent of students who were quite religious in their whole daily life.</p>
<p>Finally - I am not seeing a big deal here - many religions know and accept that young adulthood is a time for exploring and growing up. Many kids fall away from their faith for a while then come back to it (or another) later on. The Amish call it rumspringa and allow their young adults to go out and experience life before coming back and making the commitment to be Amish.</p>
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I am also offended. As a comment to the blog post stated, other religions could have also been put under the microscope. It’s fun to diss the Catholics, though. And a lot more PC than to post studies showing that URMs have lower stats at highly selective colleges. Or how about posting stats and studies about “hookups” among young blacks at colleges? Oh, wait, that is not PC!</p>
<p>We really can’t discuss the study in an informed way without access to it.</p>
<p>No, it’s a real study done by real survey methods of women nationwide. Robin Hanson is an economics professor who merely quoted from the study on his blog. I noted his name because the actual study is gated behind a subscription wall and I was thus quoting the part he listed because everyone can read that. The journal is real and has no connection to Evangelicals.</p>
<p>The link in the OP’s first post worked fine for me, and I could read the article and the table of contents. Definitely not an evangelical journal nor one with an anti-Catholic slant. Muslims, Christians, Native Americans, even witchcraft! They’re all there.</p>
<p>We really can’t discuss the study in an informed way without access to it.</p>
<p>Catholic sex is the least of our problems: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-confidential-cafe/779860-do-you-think-incest-wrong.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-confidential-cafe/779860-do-you-think-incest-wrong.html</a></p>
<p>Well, this problem has done the most damage to the CC in Boston than anything else that I can think of.</p>