Whether on clinical or moral grounds, it seems clear that promiscuity has its price. The more we pass ourselves around, the larger the likelihood of our picking something up. It is only a matter of time before it becomes widespread among heterosexuals.ĪIDS should remind us that ours is a hostile world. Even now it is claiming innocent victims: newborn babies and recipients of blood transfusions. The Wall Street Journal (hardly in a class with the National Enquirer) recently wrote,ĪIDS plague proportions. That same national poll indicated nearly 60 percent of high school students in “mainstream” America had lost their virginity, and 80 percent of college students had. In America 3,000 adolescents become pregnant each day. But a few of you are not doing so well, and much of the world around us is not doing well at all. Like Jacob of old, I would prefer for the sake of the innocent not to need to discuss such topics. I acknowledge your devotion to the gospel and applaud it.
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There isn’t as worthy and faithful a group of university students anywhere else on the face of the earth. I am thrilled that most of you are doing wonderfully well in the matter of personal purity. All of the prophets, past and present, have spoken on it, and President Benson himself addressed this very subject in his annual message to this student body last fall. You may feel this is a topic you hear addressed too frequently at this time in your life, but given the world in which we live, you may not be hearing it enough. So I ask for your faith and your prayers and your respect.
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Indeed, it is against such casualness and carelessness that I wish to speak. It would be better not to address the topic at all than to damage it with casualness or carelessness. If I am not careful and you are not supportive, this subject can slide quickly from the sacred into the merely sensational, and I would be devastated if that happened. My topic is that of human intimacy, a topic as sacred as any I know and more sacred than anything I have ever addressed from this podium. I always need the help and sustaining Spirit of the Lord to succeed at such times, but I especially feel the need for that spiritual help today. It is with an eye to that future-your future-and an awareness of this immense sense of responsibility I feel for you, that I approach this annual midyear devotional message. Someone said once that the future is waiting to be seized, and if we do not grasp it firmly, then other hands, more determined and bloody than our own, will wrench it from us and follow a different course.
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It won’t “just happen” to your advantage. The future of this world’s history will be quite fully in your hands very soon-at least your portion of it will be-and an education at an institution sponsored and guided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the greatest academic advantage I can imagine in preparation for such a serious and significant responsibility.īut that future, at least any qualitative aspect of it, must be vigorously fought for. Everything I know to do at BYU is being done with an eye toward who and what you are, and who and what you can become. I care very much about you now and forever.
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Indeed, your growth and happiness and development in the life you are now living and in the life you will be living in the days and decades ahead are the central and most compelling motivation in my daily professional life. I grow a little older, the world and its litany of problems get a little more complex, and your hopes and dreams become evermore important to me the longer I am at BYU. I think it gets more difficult as the years go by. This responsibility to speak to you never gets any easier for me.