During the third annual Dr. Tzvi Yehuda Sakes Memorial Lecture on Monday, Miriam Grossman, senior fellow at the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute, warned community members and students at Dartmouth against “experimenting and exploring [their] sexuality.”

In short, Grossman argued that the media downplays the potential negative side effects of casual sex—STDs and pregnancy—in a misguided attempt at empowering women.

“Don’t fall for it,” she told attendees.

Because of the hormone oxytocin, women are more likely to become attached to their sexual partners than men. The result, of course, is oftentimes heartbreak.

Surprisingly, not everyone in attendance agreed.

The Dartmouth reports:

Questions from the audience were mostly factual, focusing on different aspects of HPV and its vaccine, although audience member Sheli Chabon ‘10, a member of Chabad, described Grossman’s examples as “a little extreme” in an interview with The Dartmouth.

“I personally think Dr. Grossman alienated the audience by advocating that the only way for us to stay safe is to be with one person who we are absolutely positive has never been with anyone else,” Chabon said. “This just doesn’t fly on college campuses, however true it may be. But it was definitely interesting how she advocated abstinence using both modern medical knowledge and age-old scare tactics …”

Monogamy may not fly on the typical UF-esque campus, but this is Dartmouth we’re talking about here; it’s not exactly a haven for sexual debauchery.

Still, Grossman’s extremism does harken back to the conservative days of yore, which admittedly not a good thing.