My question is, why are the male and female symbols touching?

Cross-posted from The Huffington Post:

Celebrating Valentine’s Day at Jerry Falwell’s College

At most American colleges, young lovers are spending Valentine’s Day doling out Whitman’s samplers, stuffed animals, and long-stemmed roses to their crushes and significant others, hoping to get lucky in the process. Not so at Liberty University, the late Reverend Jerry Falwell’s “Bible Boot Camp” for young evangelicals.

As I found out when I spent a semester undercover at Liberty for my book The Unlikely