Read the whole article at the Washington Post
“Teenagers who pledge to remain virgins until marriage are just as likely to have premarital sex as those who do not promise abstinence and are significantly less likely to use condoms and other forms of birth control when they do, according to a study released today.”
Ok, that is not expected. Pledges seem to be forced on people.
“The new analysis of data from a large federal survey found that more than half of youths became sexually active before marriage regardless of whether they had taken a “virginity pledge,” but that the percentage who took precautions against pregnancy or sexually transmitted diseases was 10 points lower for pledgers than for non-pledgers.”
What?!? Those bastards, not only are they not saving themselves, now they aren’t protecting themselves. Well, my solution is to respect these young people.
Holy crap people here are the facts kids:
-Sex can create pregnancy
-Protect yourself in all situations. STIs (std for the 21st century) are dangerous and can last your entire life. Ask youself, “Do you want the crotch itches or not?”
FYI:
“Rosenbaum focused on about 3,400 students who had not had sex or taken a virginity pledge in 1995. She compared 289 students who were 17 years old on average in 1996, when they took a virginity pledge, with 645 who did not take a pledge but were otherwise similar. She based that judgment on about 100 variables, including their attitudes and their parents’ attitudes about sex and their perception of their friends’ attitudes about sex and birth control.”
“There’s been a lot of work that has found that teenagers who take part in abstinence-only education have more negative views about condoms,” she said. “They tend not to give accurate information about condoms and birth control.”
But Huber disputed that charge.
“Abstinence education programs provide accurate information on the level of protection offered through the typical use of condoms and contraception,” she said. “Students understand that while condoms may reduce the risk of infection and/or pregnancy, they do not remove the risk.”
Religious issues aside. Marriage is for people that love each other and that want to be officially binded in assets and responsibility. I, personally think that this abstinence-only education is pushed by delusional religious zealots that care nothing for the safety of their children and only for their imaginary standing in their imaginary heaven rankings. Wake up Sheeple.
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