Donna Freitas, author of Sex and the Soul: Juggling Sexuality, Spirituality, Romance and Religion on America’s College Campuses, has been invited by the UT Issues Committee to speak about sexuality on college campuses.

This book should jump-start a national conversation on how the sexual revolution has trapped students as much as it has freed them. Stephen Prothero, author Freitas will be focusing her lecture around her book and about college sexuality and spirituality on the UT campus.

“This book should jump-start a national conversation on how the sexual revolution has trapped students as much as it has freed them,” Stephen Prothero, author of Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know-and Doesn’t, said.

Freitas has traveled to college campuses across the country in search of students and their private answers of their sexual and spiritual relationships. She has written several fiction and nonfiction novels as well as articles for The Washington Post and  Newsweek, and has appeared on National Public Radio.

Freitas is an assistant professor of religion at Boston University. In an interview with Christianity Today, Freitas said in one of her classes the students “were all shocked to realize that they were all unhappy; they were acting a certain way because they felt like that’s what they were supposed to do.”

“I was interested in that dissonance between what they thought everyone wanted to do versus what they really wanted for themselves,” she said. 

Freitas will speak Wednesday at 7:30 in the University Center Auditorium.