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Virginity Pledges Don't Stop Teen Sex
But Those Who Make Pledges Are Less Likely To Use Condoms Or Other Birth Control When They Do Have Sex
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But the results, published in the journal Pediatrics, suggest that these virginity pledgers are less likely to protect themselves against pregnancy or disease when they do have sex.
Researchers say the findings suggest that virginity pledges may not significantly affect teenagers' sexual behavior. Instead, they may decrease the likelihood of teenagers taking precautions, such as using a condom or using birth control when they do have sex.
Researchers say the federal government spends about $200 million annually on abstinence promotion programs, which include virginity pledges. Two previous studies have suggested that virginity pledges can delay sex, but researchers say those studies did not account for pre-existing differences between pledgers and non-pledgers.
In this study, researchers compared the sexual behavior of 289 teenagers who reported taking a virginity pledge in a 1996 national survey to 645 non-pledgers who were matched on more than 100 factors, such as religious beliefs and attitudes toward sex and birth control.
The results showed that five years after taking the virginity pledge:
The biggest difference between the two groups came in the area of condom and birth control use. The study showed that fewer pledgers used birth control or condoms in the past year or any form of birth control the last time they had sex.
Researcher Janet Elise Rosenbaum, Ph.D., of Harvard University, says the findings suggest that health care providers should provide birth control information to all teenagers, especially virginity pledgers.
By Jennifer Warner
Reviewed by Louise Chang
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See all 63 CommentsPosted by libssuck3 at 03:38 AM : Jan 01, 2009
Has there EVER been a fascist on PLANET EARTH who doesn''t want to blame the OBVIOUS FAILURE of yet another of their STUPID and SIMPLE MINDED ideas on AMERICAN''S? THESE freaks come up with this PLEDGE, THEY say it will prevent Teenage Pregnancy then when it becomes so plain, SO OBVIOUS that a first grader can see it''s a failure, they don''t say, "Okay, let''s try something else". NOOOOO!! It didn''t work because of??? AMERICAN''S!! ROFLMAO These people are DANGEROUS to themselves and the rest of us!! Honest people, there are ROCKS smarter than this poor loser!!
Posted by fsw3 at 09:55 AM : Jan 01, 2009
Well you have to understand the simple mind of these poor uneducated people. In their small minds, if you can focus on the messenger then the message doesn''t matter. Course they haven''t the ability or education to debate the issue and throwing mud is all they know. Sad bunch and a load we must all carry I''m afraid!!
Don''t you wish those who follow Pat Robertson would get an education? Learn to read and understand the Language?
Yes *** is beautiful and I feel that me must say that instead of that it is yuck.. but we must also teach the dangers of open *** emotionally and physically. People who have many partners especially women as they mostly give all, are more likely to commit suicide, and have emotional problems.. then there is the children that often come from these encounters who have to grow up without a dad..
Posted by libssuck3 at 03:36 AM : Jan 01, 2009----------------------------]
There they go again, those dang liberals, looking for evidence and facts !!
And if Ms. America reported actual news instead of "Fox news" or had any liberal thoughts of her own, surely that would make her ugly in personal appearance as well.
Jan 01, 2009
The spiritual tenets of sacred sexuality fits the needs of all people. By acknowledging the heights we can reach preceding and during intercourse, we can also teach how important it is to choose wisely. We can choose physical satiation alone, or we can choose to include spiritual and emotional empowerment using our reproductive organs as the vehicle.
Of course, this will never be taught in a society that believes "God" invented something so dirty we must feel disgusted and degraded every time the thought arises. They will never acknowledge anything that smacks of the powers of the Goddess. Our sexuality is the basis for all creation stories, including the one in Genesis, which has been mangled beyond recognition by the ***-phobic patriarchs.
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Sugar Shaker
Se-x outside a marriage, can be a death trap..
For sexually active girls age fourteen to seventeen, the rates of depression are more than three times higher than for those who have not been sexually active.
Sexually active boys "are more than twice as likely to be depressed as are those who are not sexually active." And both boys and girls who have been sexually active are more likely to commit suicide.
In the U.S., 1 in 4 sexually active teens become infected with an STD every year. Some common STDs are chlamydia, gonorrhea, genital warts (also known as HPV - human papillomavirus), and herpes. (Facts in Brief: Teen *** and Pregnancy, The Alan Guttmacher Institute, New York, 1996).
Nineteen (19) million new STD infections occur each year, almost half of them among young people ages 15 to 24.
One in two sexually active youth will contract an STD by age 25.
Half of all new HIV infections occur among adolescents.
In 2004, an estimated 7,761 young people were living with AIDS, a 42% increase since 2000, when 5,457 young people were living with AIDS.
And now in 2008 the problem is a lot worse.
Well I intended to keep away from such diseases and did, no *** out side a married partner works.. and yep it was hard but worth it..
In one exercise, students are encouraged to pursue various alternatives to sexual intercourse. So far, so good. But the recommended activities? Body massage, bathing together, "sensuous feeding," joint masturbation, and-get this-watching "erotic movies". Of course, when ***** teenagers with unbridled hormones engage in these not-quite PG-13 actions, they''ll be satisfied and exclaim, "Wow-thank goodness I have no need to have *** now!"
Perhaps the most disturbing element of both these programs is the target demographic: 9 to 15 year-olds. Rather than condemning these courses as purveyors of promiscuity to young children, the CDC lauds them as model examples for others to emulate, and expects these kids with unbridled hormones will do nothing.
conversely,
Promoting abstinence works both in the classroom and through a public relations campaign. Abstinence by Choice, which operates in 20 schools in and around Little Rock, Arkansas, has had a measurable impact on the lives of the 4,000 7th-9th graders it reaches each year. Sexual activity rates among boys plunged 30 percent, and the rate for girls fell plummeted 40 percent.
One is abstinence plus which is dangerous where the "abstinence-plus" programs are essentially condom education with a quasi-abstinence component.
"These programs have virtually no abstinence in them at all,"
The Physicians Consortium, a group of more than 2,000 physicians nationwide, has issued a report exposing just how offensive "abstinence-plus" programs really are.
From wht I have read the programs have gone beyond just promoting condoms. They promote all kinds of deviant sexu-ality bondage and all types of bizarre ***-ual behavior that we think that most people, even as adults, would find offensive. Yet, these are programs directed towards children, and we as parents have allowed it, wew sat quite while they destroyed our children..
I think it is about time that parents looked up what abstinence plus really is teaching their children.
The programs and Web sites contain some shocking things, such as:
advising students to take a trip to the grocery store to search for sexual lubricants; and
having students practice putting condoms on, utilizing cucumbers and anatomically correct plastic models.
According to the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS), the overall proportion of both sexually experienced teens (54.1% - 46.8%) and currently sexually active teens (37.5% - 33.9%) decreased from 1991 through 2005.
or this one
The pregnancy rate declined for all women under 30 years of age, but the sharpest drop was among teenagers, with the teen pregnancy rate falling by 15 percent from its record high in 1991. Among the factors driving this downturn in teen pregnancies... [is] the leveling off of teen sexual activity.
Chicken soup won''t cure a cold either, so we need to ridicule Campbell''s until they cave in and get it off the shelves.
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