by Ken Mosesian
It's 11.30 at night, I'm back in
my hotel in New York City, and happily exhausted. Corey Whelan, AFA Program
Director, and I had the pleasure of presenting information about the biological
clock to a group of about 50 students at Yale University during Sex Week at Yale
(SWAY).
A completely student organized
event, the SWAY http://www.sexweekatyale.com/ website
states: "Sex Week at Yale is a campus-wide
interdisciplinary sex education program designed to pique students’ interest and
spark dialogue through creative, interactive, and innovative programming. SWAY
is at the cutting-edge of college-aged Sex Education. We aim to push students to
think about sex, love, intimacy, and relationships in ways they never have
before with a week full of guest lectures, panel discussions, hands on
workshops, parties, presentations, and student productions." You can follow them on
Twitter @sexweekatyale.
We were both so appreciative to have been invited to speak to people in
their late teens and early twenties about this issue. This is a time when they
are actively considering how family and career can work together. We had an
amazing conversation lasting an hour and a half, and it was great to be in a
room with really bright and inspired young men and women.
All of the questions had merit. Some were deeply complex, like the morality
of so-called "fertility tourism." Others were somewhat humerus, but nonetheless
heartfelt, like asking what we thought about freezing sperm and then getting
vasectomies. For all of them, we could feel that life was like a blank canvas,
and they were writing their own stories on it. And hopefully, we added
information into the mix that will help in the process.
A few important "thank you" shout-outs are in order: to Dr. Harvey Kliman
http://www.med.yale.edu/obgyn/kliman/pages/klimancv.html,
who introduced us to Yale and to George Norberg, one of the student members of
the Board of Directors of SWAY. A big thank you to George for extending the
invitation to us to speak. And to Dr. Harry Fisch http://www.harryfisch.com/, whose work on
the male biological clock was an invaluable resource to me.
There's a lot to worry about these days, if you choose to look at it.
There's also a lot that's right with the world. Yesterday, spending time at
Yale with those students made us feel pretty damn good about the future.
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