UNF Newspaper Shocks

[SarahTay]

I am aware that most students at a university are "young adults", being one of them. There are an equal amount of adults and 17 year-olds, mind you.

You're an aspiring journalist.  I'm going to need to see a source for that statistic.  It strains credibility. 

Jimmy, it was just another sarcastic response to someone not getting my sarcasm in the original post:

[People at university aren't "kids" they are young adults.]

Like I said @ the beginning of the second, I used kids loosely and sarcastically. But beyond that defense, wanted to point out not everyone at a college is a "young adult" - evident by the vast age range in all the classes I've taken. I will not claim it as fact though guess I should've made that clear when I said it. Now that you mention it though, I would like to know the demographics of UNF age-wise. Hmm...

[Jimmy]

Thanks for clarifying.  I'm having a hard time picking up your sarcasm in print here.

[Timkin]

as am I

[BridgeTroll]

I found the cover, as a woman, offensive. Why isn't the guy stripped down? The picture inside on Pg. 5 is also the girl "receiving". Why didn't they switch it up? It says to me that woman are the ones spreading it.

Would you have preferred the male in the chair with the woman kneeling in front of him?  Then she could be "giving".  To me at least... the woman on the cover seems to be in charge... male kneeling before her... she with a handful of his hair... my guess is she is telling him exactly "what to do".  As for the inside pic... it sounds like you would prefer the woman on top... well... I cannot argue with that logic... it is a fave of mine too...

[Timkin]

hehehe  Bridge Troll ... You naughty .... ehhh nevermind

[SarahTay]

Ask yourself this question:

What if instead of a fully clothed male doing the deed for a partially dressed female, it was a fully clothed female doing the dead for a partially clothed male, how would you react? I'm guessing the average female would be WAY, WAY, WAY more offended.

Don't get me wrong, objectification is a real issue that has real consequences on the female population, I just don't see it being a real issue with this particular cover.

Ken, I'm not so much offended that they used a woman as they did, but that in the article they don't clarify that only women can contract HPV - it gives the impression that both males and females can get it. Then they also bring up oral sex between two people of the same gender. But, they use the female as the receiver, and therefore "the carrier", in both the cover and inside image. They should of varied it - one of the guy doing the deed and one of the girl. Or since he introduced into the article the risk of contraction via homosexual activity, using two images of heterosexual activity was the wrong choice. If it was an image of the guy as the receiver for both, I would be just as turned off only because they're saying something by singling in on one gender. And since they do so with woman, why does she have to be half naked while he's fully clothed? The objectification of women gets me here only in that context and in what the topic's @. Are "slutty" women the only ones to blame for the hpv grapevine?

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

but that in the article they don't clarify that only women can contract HPV - it gives the impression that both males and females can get it.

methinks you should do some more readng before you post.....

Much of the information about HPV virus (human papillomavirus) centers on women, since having the virus increases their risk of getting cervical cancer. But HPV virus in men can cause health problems, too. It's important for men to understand how to reduce the risks of HPV infection.

HPV infection can increase a man's risk of getting genital cancers, although these cancers are not common. HPV can also cause genital warts in men, just as in women.

More than half of men who are sexually active in the U.S. will have HPV at some time in their life. Often, a man will clear the virus on his own, with no health problems

http://www.webmd.com/sexual-conditions/hpv-genital-warts/hpv-virus-men

It implies that both can get it because it's true.

[finehoe]

...in the article they don't clarify that only women can contract HPV - it gives the impression that both males and females can get it.

Males most certainly can contract HPV:  http://www.webmd.com/sexual-conditions/hpv-genital-warts/hpv-virus-men

[finehoe]

N-RW, you beat me to it!

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

a rarity, but I had already read up on it after the 'drama' of the cover started circulating.

[SarahTay]

lol. yes well too bad this wasn't a piece on sexual liberation or sex on random school equipment...

[finehoe]

I'm sure you were only being sarcastic when you said that only women can contract HPV, and it just went over our heads.

[Jimmy]

Nice, finehoe.  Exactly.

Yeah, men and women get HPV.  Most people need the vaccine (at least most people who are students at UNF and JU and FSCJ and high schools and, probably, middle schools).

[SarahTay]

No, no, no. I KNOW that both can get it. I said the article doesn't say only women can get it so why do the visuals portray only woman "having it"? Both can get it, we all know that. Just saying they should've switched things up.

but thanks finehoe - good lookin' out for me.

[Timkin]

especially the latter ......