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Three: one too many

I love Facebook; there is no end to its uses I had never thought a scamer would use a petition for a threesome as a ruse to promote an online music service, but clearly I lack vision. I did say before that I support all forms of consensual sex that doesn't involve animals and I will hold to that.


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Still Waiting?

In today's mainstream society, especially with college students, the controversy surrounding premarital sex appears to has all but fizzled.


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Three's company!

A guy purportedly by the name of Brody Ruckus just had his 15 minutes of fame. About two weeks ago, he started a Facebook group called "If this group reaches 100,000 members, my girlfriend will have a threesome." As of Sept.


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Happy Pappy!

I keep hearing about the new HPV vaccine, but it isn't going to do me any good: I just found out that my last Pap Smear was abnormal, so I'm not eligible to be vaccinated.


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Dating is dead

Okay maybe that opening a little too Nietzche but let me explain: I'm not sure when it happened, but at some point, hookups killed dating.


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I know what women want

According to SicillianCulture.com the phrase, "Non essiri duci sinno tu mancianu, non essiri amaru sinno ti futanu," roughly translated means: "do not be sweet lest you be eaten, do not be sour lest you be shunned." In other words, all things in moderation. Most personality traits exist on some sort of a continuum, like confidence.


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Orally speaking

Trench mouth is an infection of the gums caused by excess bacteria. It got its name because it was common in soldiers living in the trenches of World War I.


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I am better than you

Since you read last week's column, you now know how to pick up women. Good for you. But how do you handle the morning after?


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A shot may keepthe cancer away...

Americans are now more aware than ever of the risks of cancer. More and more people go to great lengths to avoid the sun, artificial sweeteners and smoke; now it seems that cancer can even be prevented through a vaccine. Gardasil, from Merck & Co., is a vaccine that prevents infection from four of 30 strains of the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) that are transmitted sexually.


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Sex in Toyland

Sex is fascinating. At its most basic, it involves sexual parts coming into contact with other sexual parts.


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Six calcium per day keep the doctor away

The world is full of ideas and advice about health and sex. Family and friends, magazines and television ... they all seem to weigh in on the best way to care for our bodies. Cases in point: At age 15 my mother tried to convince me that if I ate six calcium chews a day I will be immune not only to osteoporosis, but also myasthenia gravis, cancer and the plague ("But honey, they're for women by women"). Commercials tell us that treating your herpes with Acyclovir will not only reduce your number of flare-ups, but will also render you beautiful, in love and in close proximity to the beach. Glamour magazine has also weighed in our sexual health, promising us the latest classified information on the female orgasm every other month for the past decade. We all have a weird relative who, like the character in "My Big Fat Greek Wedding," touts Windex as the most appropriate antiseptic for all bodily infections.


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Make up break up ­-- everything's a shake up

Welcome (back) to college. This is a sex column. I write about sex and sex-related issues. Now that we've covered the basics, let's get cracking. The great thing about classes starting on a Wednesday is by now most people hoping to scratch the party itch have scratched, chaffed, healed and scratched again.


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Moving to a different beat

Second-year College student Jessie Shields said she doesn't like to run regularly. Instead, she said she swims, plays tennis, takes a volleyball class, goes rock-climbing, hiking, mountain biking and follows Jane Fonda workouts by on cassette tapes. "Running is hard and boring, especially in the winter, so I do lots of other things for fun and because it's good socially, too," Shields said. Shields is one of many University students who choose to stay in shape by participating in a variety of activities that are not all traditional ways of working out. At the University ranked "Hottest for Fitness" in Newsweek's 2005 Kaplan College Guide, some students choose to exercise in a variety of different ways that don't simply revolve around the treadmill and weights. "We try to offer a comprehensive program that offers different opportunities to lots of people," said Mark Fletcher, associate athletics director for U.Va.


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Anti-antibiotics?

Yesterday, I realized that we have less than two weeks left in the semester. While Springfest, class registration and the increase in the warm weather should have tipped me off to the fast approach of finals I remained happily in the dark until I woke up with a sore throat and a headache to match.


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It's been a real pleasure

Do you remember losing your virgin-ity?The soft sound of waves lap-ping the shore, the taste of wine, scent of a vanilla candle and a near award winning choreography of sexual ecstasy? Ah ha.Not so much. For most of us, memories from the first time involve awkward attempts to recreate some Barbara Streisand Hollywood romance.But, oh, how is it that the most valiant attempts are often the most brutal.Trying to be too sexy, for instance, can quickly turn into a gruesome duel between you and your fearless underwear, that now have you harnessed in a half-nelson chicken-wing. Who is to blame for this unrealistic impression that sex (particularly losing your virginity) must somehow glisten with perfection?Hollywood?Religion?Our parents? Who cares, really.The point is that we can think for ourselves and consciously decide that sex is a skill, an expression and a recreation. First of all, the notion that "the first time" should be "the most important" is absolutely absurd.Is the first time you ride a bike "the most important?"Not at all... and in fact, you can and should expect the very worst.The same goes for sex -- the value of the experience is circumstantial and is best when you know what you're doing. As I was walking home from a 2 a.m.


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