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Study: Abstinence May Lead to Risky Acts
Associated Press ^ | Mar. 18, 2005 | Matt Apuzzo

Posted on 03/18/2005 1:45:07 PM PST by Crackingham

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. The report by Yale and Columbia University researchers could help explain their earlier findings that teens who pledged abstinence are just as likely to have STDs as their peers.

The latest study, published in the April issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health, found that teens pledging virginity until marriage are more likely to have oral and anal sex than other teens who have not had intercourse. That behavior, however, "puts you at risk," said Hannah Brueckner, assistant professor of sociology at Yale and one of the study's authors.

Among virgins, boys who have pledged abstinence were four times more likely to have had anal sex, according to the study. Overall, pledgers were six times more likely to have oral sex than teens who have remained abstinent but not as part of a pledge. The pledging group was also less likely to use condoms during their first sexual experience or get tested for STDs, the researchers found.

Data for the study was taken from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. 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. It was funded in part by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Leslee Unruh, president of the National Abstinence Clearinghouse in Sioux Falls, S.D., called the study "bogus," disputing that those involved had pledged true "abstinence."

"Kids who pledge abstinence are taught that any word that has 'sex' in it is considered a sexual activity," Unruh said. "Therefore oral sex is sex, and they are staying away."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: bootylessness; health; homosexualagenda; lockedbox; nobootknock; riskyscheme; std
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To: Crackingham
"Among virgins, boys who have pledged abstinence were four times more likely to have had anal sex, according to the study. Overall, pledgers were six times more likely to have oral sex than teens who have remained abstinent but not as part of a pledge. "

This is BS, and they knew it so they buried it.

They didn’t compare abstinence pledgers to non-pledgers. They compared pledgers to everyone else who didn’t get laid. BIG SHOCK! Those that didn’t get laid also had less anal and oral sex!

For this to be a valid comparison, they’d have to assume that pledgers would not have had sex even if they didn’t pledge. That’s not the case. They should have been compared to the total population their age.

I’m not even for strict abstinence. I think it’s a waste of young peoples' potential pleasure at the prime of their chance to enjoy and give it.. But this study's total crap. And since they tried to obscure that it, it’s also a fraud.

21 posted on 03/18/2005 2:19:44 PM PST by elfman2
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To: bahblahbah

Obviously, any sexual act outside of marriage is a result of lust. I think you are missing my point. The verse you cited was about lust, not the actiully physical acts.


22 posted on 03/18/2005 2:21:51 PM PST by connectthedots
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To: Mylo

Ewwww.....
But - assuming all acts are 'unprotected' - you can get AIDS just as easily with regular....ya know I just realized I was writing under the assumption that "anal= male + male" only?

AND...well I was going to make another point but I'm getting grossed out.....


23 posted on 03/18/2005 2:22:32 PM PST by DesignerChick
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To: DesignerChick
"other kinds of sex that increase the risk of sexually transmitted diseases" And regular old sex doesn't increase the risk of STD's?

I think they are referring to anal sex as an alternative to vaginal which does carry additional health risks. The fact that kids could do any of it and consider themselves virgins is what's beyond me.

24 posted on 03/18/2005 2:35:22 PM PST by foolscap
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To: connectthedots

Lingering Under Sexual Temptation


25 posted on 03/18/2005 2:36:21 PM PST by RPCUSN
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To: connectthedots
" Obviously, any sexual act outside of marriage is a result of lust."

Hopefully it's part of most all sexual acts inside marriage as well ;^)

Lust is obviously a central part of it, but I loved a couple of women that I had sex with outside of marriage, and I’m sure they loved me. Young people in our complex society with all its opportunities often, but not always, grow apart.

26 posted on 03/18/2005 2:36:48 PM PST by elfman2
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To: RPCUSN

Good definition in that context.


27 posted on 03/18/2005 2:38:32 PM PST by elfman2
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To: Crackingham

Bottom line, pledgers lie. Why not just compare abstinence to non-abstinence? Weird study.


28 posted on 03/18/2005 2:41:30 PM PST by Sandy
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To: mike182d
If you're teaching abstinence without chastity, what the heck are you teaching?

Modern Liberalism.

29 posted on 03/18/2005 2:41:52 PM PST by John Valentine
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To: Mylo

The thing that is horrible to me is that they sent surveys to kids in 7th grade. If it really wasn't something they thought of before they sure will now. Unbelievable. The questionaire basically plants the idea that these other things are options.


30 posted on 03/18/2005 2:42:40 PM PST by WestPoint90
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To: RPCUSN
I like that definition.
31 posted on 03/18/2005 2:56:50 PM PST by connectthedots
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To: billorites
Abstinence leads to skydiving. For males anyway.


32 posted on 03/18/2005 3:02:08 PM PST by pageonetoo (You'll spot their posts soon enough!)
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To: bahblahbah

Daniel 5:28: PERES: Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.


33 posted on 03/18/2005 7:09:59 PM PST by Verginius Rufus (One man's Mede is another man's Persian.)
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To: Mylo
But wait. . .aren't the homo-lobby engaged in an effort to tell us that "gay sex' is not risky and that gay sex is normal and loving and natural?
34 posted on 03/19/2005 12:35:48 PM PST by Gunrunner2
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To: Gunrunner2

Depends upon how you define "gay sex". A couple of lesbians are less likely to engage in anal sex than a heterosexual couple; does this make "heterosexual sex" more risky? If anal sex with a condom is less risky than vaginal sex without; does that make vaginal sex more risky?

Some gay men think that it is heterosexual men who are obsessed with anal sex, because the "coin of the realm" in their weird little world is the blowjob. To which I say "Don't play coy you little bitch! I know you are an ass bandit!" JUST KIDDING!


35 posted on 06/10/2005 4:08:14 PM PDT by Mylo
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To: frogjerk

Isn't it though? lol.. they aren't really abstaining period!


36 posted on 06/10/2005 4:10:27 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: bahblahbah
Paraphrase George Carlin.

You want to feel her up.
You plan on feeling her up.
You take her on a date to feel her up.
You feel her up.
You don't feel bad about feeling her up.

That's five sins just for one feel.

37 posted on 06/10/2005 4:13:56 PM PDT by Dinsdale
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To: frogjerk
Abstinence May Lead to Risky Acts

I know, I was abstinant for seventeen years once (it sucked). I was willing to do just about ANYTHING to end it.

38 posted on 06/10/2005 4:18:49 PM PDT by Dinsdale
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