Sunday, March 20, 2005
Where's the money going?
Good thing this research is well-funded:
Teens who pledge to remain virgins until marriage are more likely to take chances with other kinds of sex that increase the risk of sexually transmitted diseases, a study of 12,000 adolescents suggests.
Wow, really?
Among virgins, boys who have pledged abstinence were four times more likely to have had anal sex, according to the study.
Uh... pardon me for being a killjoy, but I don't think guys who have anal sex are virgins.
Overall, pledgers were six times more likely to have oral sex than teens who have remained abstinent but not as part of a pledge.
Folks who remain abstinent without actually trying to remain abstinent have less oral sex? You don't say...
An in-school questionnaire was given to a nationally representative sample of students in grades 7-12 and followed up with a series of in-home interviews roughly one, two, and six years later.
"Mrs. Johnson, do you mind if we talk to your daughter about what kind of sex she's had?"
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