Where's the love?

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I found this article yesterday actually. This sentiment has been predicted for the last 30 years or so and I recall reading articles about it in high school even.

Where Is Love?

Richmond Times-Dispatch

Aug 30, 2006

Ray McAllister's Saturday column opened many eyes. He discussed a mother of a VCU student who, while searching the Internet, found "perhaps 100 pictures of VCU students, mostly of last year's freshman class, in various stages of intoxication and, often, undress."

The photos depicted dirty dancing and young people wearing little but underwear. "Others showed students passed out on the floor, vomit sometimes nearby," wrote McAllister, "drinking students sometimes posing with the body."

The scenes could come from the "Girls Gone Wild" videos advertised on late-night TV. The activity goes several steps beyond "Animal House." This is not the ribaldry described by Fitzgerald, either. The atmosphere suggests cheerlessness. The students appear more robotic than robust. They may be bored; they certainly are boring.

The situation invites the censure age always directs toward youth. Yet the enduring reaction is less of Puritan sensibilities offended and outraged than of sorrow for young lives deprived of joy. Although extreme, Behl's tragedy may have been emblematic. Sexual liberation has become sexual enslavement.

Where is love? These children are missing so much.