Dec 30, 2008
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.
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See all 63 CommentsPosted by downtowner97 at 09:20 PM : Dec 30, 2008
Sure there is.
It''s all because those baaaad boys can''t keep that thing of theirs LOCKED UP!
I know, I know, it isn''t just their fault. The girls can''t keep their legs closed either.
Too much information?
Well, if there were some half decent parents out there, teaching their kids right from wrong, there wouldn''t be such a problem. It wouldn''t solve it completely but it certainly would be a start.
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Duh.
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Posted by erasmus606 at 09:38 PM : Dec 30, 2008
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Right from wrong? They only kid in our extended family that ended up pregnant before marriage so far is the ministers daughter.
Posted by kansas1946 at 10:12 PM : Dec 30, 2008
Ministers, cops.....worst parents.
That''s EXACTLY the kind of naive perspective that the abstinence only people suffer from! The desire to procreate is based on a biological imperative. Lectures from parents telling, their kids what''s "right" and what''s "wrong", have very little effect in over-riding the most basic drive of all biological beings.
Whether you like it or not, most human beings (of any age) are going to engage in s3xu@l activity when they get the opportunity. So, wouldn''t it be a good idea to tell the kids what they need to know about preventing unwanted pregnancy and disease? Or, do you think they should all just suffer and die because they chose to do something YOU think is "wrong"?
Having the mindset that says "if they don''t know about it, they wont do it" is unrealistic. Think about how many 7 and 8 month babies were born to newlyweds before it was acceptable to be pregnant before marriage.
Teaching the common sense of protection, both from disease and pregnancy, is mandatory. Not much one can do to stop what comes naturally and is lots of fun.
The downside occurs during spousal selection, when the past presents itself and the one you want finds you repulsive for your past acts. Well, that''s the way it goes.
There is something nice about a person who hasn''t swapped liquids with hundreds of people.
Worst president ever.
Posted by comeon11 at 03:29 AM : Dec 31, 2008
LOL I don''t think ANYONE has to "discredit" Fundies! They do that just fine themselves. If you doubt the absolute FAILURE of the Religious Reich, use your search engine and pull up the HISTORY of the Southern Baptist! Now you want to talk about being on the WRONG side of HISTORY? Supported Jim Crowe, Child Labor and the right of employers to discriminate. They stood against women''s right to vote, Blacks right to vote, the 40 hour work week and Tobacco Warnings. The one thing they were for, when 80% of their ministers were members of the Klan but are against today? Separation of Church and State! Go figure!
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Let''s pull our collective and individual heads out of the sand and admit abstinence promotion programs should be changed to education programs.
Since most teenage boys (maybe most men in general) are just hound-dogs when it comes to se*xx, let''s educate our daughters to protect themselves from STDs and pregnancy. Ignoring this behavior doesn''t mean it doesn''t exist, and acknowledging it doesn''t mean you approve. Just educate your daughters so you won''t have to deal with an unwanted pregnancy.
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Posted by comeon11
What we need to do is identify the problem,
How''s this:
Consensual *** is not Bad, Unwanted Pregnancy is Bad.
Now was that so difficult?...
Feminist educators/teachers have been repeating this kind of air-head blurb since 1970. That''s why the present situation exists - in schools AND in the media.
Also, how do you so carelessly dismiss the sensitivity and ambivalence men and boys may have about sexx? Talk about dumb stereotyping.
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The present situation exists because parents abdicated their responsibility of raising their children. Now the teenagers run the family and parents cave in to demands for expensive electronic toys and designer clothes. There are no expectations and no consequence.
Educate your daughters. That is the only way to prevent STDs and unwanted pregnancies. If you want to spend your retirement raising your grandkids, then disregard this suggestion.
Posted by comeon11 at 06:00 AM : Dec 31, 2008
I grew up in the 50''s and you can''t get more FASCIST than they were then. I mean NOTHING even remotely close to sexual contact was allowed to be seen on TV, the movies or anything else! Did it help? NO! You can''t control Nature and you can''t tell a Teenager NOT to do something or NOT to look at something. That is the BEST way to make sure they DO look or watch! It''s called HUMAN Nature and we should turn over the Education of you youth to PROFESSIONAL''S who aren''t hamstrung by old tired and FAILED Religious Beliefs!!
Posted by comeon11 at 05:39 AM : Dec 31, 2008
Well POINT out something I said that was WRONG! You and LOSERS like you keep trying to stop folks from pointing to the MOUNTAIN of failure the Religious Reich has served upon us. It''s not going to work. When you''ve NEVER been right in the past why should ANYONE listen to you NOW?? Sieg Heil and Amen
None of that is news. Chicken soup doesn''t prevent a cold, but that certainly doesn''t make it a bad thing.
What the h e l l happened to you? Did it fall off? It''s been many years since I''ve been a teen and still, every time I see, smell or hear a woman the first thing that popps into my head is s e x.
None of that is news. Chicken soup doesn''''t prevent a cold, but that certainly doesn''''t make it a bad thing.
Posted by kesac4650
What makes it a bad thing is those, including the current president, who want abstinance to be the only thing taught to teens and forego any other type of education towards disease prevention and birth control.
Posted by tmittelstaed
It still pops but I am better at controlling the external indications.
Posted by you_fools
Hmmm, I seem to remember George Bush pledging to be a uniter not a divider before he drove a big@$$ wedge into the heart of the country. And didn''t his Dad say he wasn''t going to raise taxes ever? Don''t be a hypocrite.
What does work to help young people make the choices that are best for them is parental support and mentoring. If the federal government would remove itself from our public schools, and stop legislating and ruling against local school control on curriculum and disciplinary issues, states could reduce class sizes, because their would be fewer classes to teach and no need for alternative schools. Reduced class sizes and inflexible course selections would mean more opportunities for students to stay in school and graduate. Small class sizes are one proven way of giving students a better shot at achieving success, because of greater opportunities for individual attention and mentoring, yet every time the federal government steps in with new requirements, class sizes increase.
Posted by hatesthecolt
In this "recession" or whatever, they still have to throw money at something stupid. I guess that''s why people are choosing to home-school their kids...but who knows what kind of adults they will become. Only time will tell.
Educate your kids (don''t wait until the schools get around to it). Assume YOUR responsibility and teach your kids about protection and diseases. Because kids will be kids and have s*e*x where ever and when ever they can. Just make them smarter about it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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..
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