Study: Teenage 'virginity pledges' are ineffective

[dbackjon]

Youths who promise abstinence are also less likely to use protection

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.

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.

"Taking a pledge doesn't seem to make any difference at all in any sexual behavior," said Janet E. Rosenbaum of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, whose report appears in the January issue of the journal Pediatrics. "But it does seem to make a difference in condom use and other forms of birth control that is quite striking."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28415602

[dbackjon]

Another failure of the Bush Administration and Evangelical/Catholics....

[dbackjon]

The findings are reigniting the debate about the effectiveness of abstinence-focused sexual education just as Congress and the new Obama administration are about to reconsider the more than $176 million in annual funding for such programs.

[AZGrizFan]

You know, if they'd just let us stick it in their pooper, they'd still be virgins.

[dbackjon]

You know, if they'd just let us stick it in their pooper, they'd still be virgins.

I have never gotten anyone pregnant that way!!!

[AZGrizFan]

You know, if they'd just let us stick it in their pooper, they'd still be virgins.

I have never gotten anyone pregnant that way!!!

Yeah, but I don't want a hairy, greasy asshole, I want one of those cute, puckery ones that if I want to, I can pick her up and carry her like a six pack.

[grizzaholic]

I have never gotten anyone pregnant that way!!!

Yeah, but I don't want a hairy, greasy asshole, I want one of those cute, puckery ones that if I want to, I can pick her up and carry her like a six pack.

This also works.

http://www.holytaco.com/not-virgin-just ... cial-hymen

[Ibanez]

Noone ever got pregnant from swallowing.