We are talking about having sex, not doing other things, such as drinking or using drugs. Military members could still pick up those college girls and guys who have been drinking and/or using drugs.
No, it is not a waste of time at all, nor counterproductive, if the goal is to teach students how to build healthier relationships that still involve sexual activity.
The ill-effects of promiscuity are mainly due to unwanted pregnancy (teaching about safe sex to avoid this), STDs (again, safe sex to avoid this, building a relationship with your partner so that you know them and their history/plans before you have sex with them), and unhealthy relationships that are abusive or simply non-fulfilling. Promiscuity is not unhealthy in itself. Being irresponsible in your sex life is unhealthy.
And if we taught students/teens how to drink in moderation and why they should, rather than either a) avoiding talking about alcohol at all, b) acting like it is completely wrong always, thus making it a temptation for them, or c) sending them mixed messages about alcohol, then we really wouldn't have so many alcohol issues either.
They are already likely doing the fun part. If only a few of them listen to the parts that are going to help them have healthier relationships, that still makes it a net benefit.
This is simply you projecting your nonsensical (and oddly naive) "sex positive" ideology onto the issue again. :roll:
There are a great many "ill-effects" of promiscuity, a lot of them subtle and psychological, rather than overt and psychical. "Hook-up regret" and loss of self-esteem tied to bad sexual experiences, for instance, are quite common, and there is also evidence to suggest that persons with large numbers of sexual partners in their formative years are less capable of maintaining long term relationships and marriages than their more sexually restrained compatriots further into adulthood.
If you're trying to say that any of these negative impacts can be "taught" out of the experience, I'd, quite frankly, say that you're completely missing the point of these behaviors in the first place.
They are not
meant to create "healthy relationships." They never were. In point of fact, "relationships" have little or nothing to do with it. They are meant to satisfy selfish, ego-boosting, animal lust while thumbing one's nose at traditional social mores in the process.
For that exact reason, when they do, occasionally, spawn relationships, they tend to be unstable, fundamentally unhealthy, and short-lived. They are simply built off of all the wrong things.
This brings us right back to my major problem with this whole thing in the first place. First off, it
is a waste of time and money.
(If it even is the instructors' misguided intent to push for such a thing in the first place) College students are no more going to accept a "kinder, gentler" version of promiscuity than they are going to start only having two drinks at Fraternity keggers. That's simply not the way vice works, especially not in an environment which actively promotes excess.
Secondly, the way this entire farce has been framed and marketed
does actively serve to promote exactly the kind of "excess" which makes these behaviors so common in the first place.
At the end of the day, this will accomplish absolutely nothing other than to push the Left's "sexual liberation" agenda, while very likely making the original problem worse. It is basically just a glorified progressive propaganda piece.