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.
Here’s a point everyone seems to miss yet it’s brutally obvious once told;
When we are in our mothers womb we have no urge to nourish, we are being nourished without the urge and we have not reached that stage of development.
A pre-adolescent teen has no physical urge for sex however once reaching that age the urge is just about impossible to defy.
However knowledge (as usual) is inoculation, when we educate our young they are far better off then when we suppress the urge they have, the need, the requirement that they become adults.
Knowledge helps the turn from childhood to adulthood emotionally before their bodies force them into adulthood physically
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I assume that Bush will not be mentioning this study when he points to his success in giving money but not condoms to Africa:)
Aids rates in Africa preBush and STD rates including AIDS in the red states pre Bush should be examined, however I don’t trust statistics from Bush’s government.
Any attempt at correction of these numbers will likely mean an increase which the GOP will blame on Obama.
The stats are correct, if partly a function of self-selection, because few besides fundies deem it necessary for little girls to pledge to their fathers that they will remain celibate until marriage. (A pledge that introduces its own Freudian slurps into an already churned mixture of hormones and social pressures/relationships).
The Alan Guttmacher’s stats are pretty consistent: the greater the age appropriate sexuality education, the later the start of sexual activity and the safer it is. Period. Fundies are a pretty self-destructive lot in many ways.
This isn’t really news. Other studies have elicited the same results. This has not stopped conservative Christians from pushing abstinence only programs or Bush et al. from insisting on these counter-productive riders being put on otherwise effective programs.
Related unsurprising statistics — people marry younger, divorce rates are higher, and educational levels and per capita incomes are lower in states where “family values” and “abstinence-only” policies are more popular. Year after year, young people in “Taxachusetts,” the birthplace of American gay marriage, come out at or near the top in all of the marital and economic stability factors.
The Constant Weader at RealityChex.com