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Love Blog posts insightful comments on the latest international news that render us taken-aback in the domain of the love facet of life. Love-Blog: Free-Love News Professor fights for free love in classes - Faculty member at UCLA argues that rules against faculty-student romance violate freedom: October 28, 2007 by Larry Gordon LOS ANGELES -- In the volatile mix of academia and sex, UCLA psychology professor Paul R. Abramson says he is trying to light a torch for liberty. Abramson is sharply criticizing his employer and colleges nationwide that have adopted restrictions -- and, in a few cases, outright bans -- on romances between faculty and students. Of course, sexual harassment should not be allowed and no one should supervise or give grades to a romantic partner, says Abramson, who has taught at UCLA for 31 years. But those concerns should not restrict the right of consenting adults to have a nonexploitative relationship, he argues in a new book. The rights to romance and to choose whom to love are as basic as the freedoms of speech and religion, Abramson writes in "Sexual Rights in America" co-authored with Steven D. Pinkerton and Mark Huppin (ISBN), and in "Romance in the Ivory Tower: The Rights and Liberty of Conscience" (MIT Press). A university that suppresses such a choice "tramples the very nature of freedom itself," he declares. Love Blog Comment: Why is humanity scared of the free love in the places of learning and working? Isn't it so because the way we learn and the way we work in our society, are basically designed in a loveless manner? Rather anti-love! When we say free love, we literally mean it to be free; even to the extent of daring go outside the bounds of any socially acceptable relationship permitting the same in its limited boundary that limits our passion too! Society fears that love with our colleagues at the workplaces, and in between the students and the faculty in colleges and universities will disrupt its coercive tradition and jam its wheels. But then what about our freedom and what about our passion? Why do they suppose that if we go free, we'll go irresponsible? In fact, it's freedom only that makes one responsible in the real sense of the term. Kudos to you Abramson, and keep it up! I invite you to subscribe to my E-zine titled Life Coach, free of charge. This E-zine publishes insightful comments on the latest international news that render us taken-aback in the domains of various facets of life. A not-to-be-missed opportunity! Subscribe to it here: I also invite you to subscribe to my Life Blog - no need to provide your e-mail address here. This RSS feed keeps you informed about new developments taking place on this site. It also harbors 25 journal bloglets posting insightful comments on the latest international news that render us taken-aback in the domains of various facets of life. In order to subscribe to the blog, right-click on the orange RSS button (see buttons up to the left) and then paste the URL into your RSS reader. Or click on add to My Yahoo! button or My MSN or Add To Google button if you keep a personalized home page there. If you are not sure what RSS or blogging is all about, click on What's an RSS Feed? here:
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