A book review [registration required] in today's Wall Street Journal discusses Unprotected, a book about university students' health care.
While doctors at the university health care systems freely offer advice about general life issues, one category of problems is treated differently than the rest: sexual issues. If your lifestyle is too sedentary, your physician will have something to say; if your sexual activities put you at risk, either psychological or physical, the doctors are silent.
I diagnose the problem as disaggregation, but with lack of care to make certain that proper interfaces continue. In other words, while the universities may choose to treat some forms of risky behavior as different from other risky behaviors, this doesn't mean simply cutting the behavior loose from medical supervision entirely. If you take something apart to make it work better, you must make certain that the parts still work together afterwards.
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