<p>Notre Dame is usually condemned for frowning on any sexual activity at all, let alone the non-consensual kind. Now what are they supposed to do if they really don’t have evidence? Our social climate makes these cases even more difficult to judge. My son told me that at his college the women were unbelievably promiscuous. Perhaps the majority of men have always been lust-crazed jerks, but there were enough monogamous women around to make most of them clean up their act. Civilization is built on exclusivity, and when the male/female version of it degenerates there isn’t a whole lot of hope for other institutions. It isn’t surprising to see young men treating life as an endless party when it’s just so easy to, when so many women seem to think it’s a party too.</p>
<p>It’s ironic that feminism has ultimately encouraged women to be more like men in this regard; a seventeen-year-old boy couldn’t have worked out the philosophy any better in the spirit of purely selfish wish-fulfillment. I am by no means claiming that the young woman in question didn’t have a case, nor am I assuming that she isn’t virtuous; I’m simply observing that so many other young women and men have cheapened sexual relationship that the innocent can also suffer for it.</p>