Posted on 03/18/2005 1:46:46 PM PST by texaspirate
Study: Abstinence May Lead to Risky Acts
1 hour, 35 minutes ago U.S. National - AP
By MATT APUZZO, Associated Press Writer
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - 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
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Pre-marital sex is safer for your teens (NARAL; Planned Parenthood; et all pro-death activitsts.
Small appliances, only small appliances please. No sex with refrigerators or stoves.
Prude! ;-)
Yes surgery for carpal tunnel syndrome can be risky. Otherwise, this article is pure CRAP.
Oh right, let me see, they took their sampling from those who sought treatment for STDs?
I don't want to start a flame war, but expecting a human being to be 100% chaste until they're married is getting a little unreasonable.
Consider the average age for marriage is now 26 or so.
I expect chasity until marriage. And marriage should be much earlier than 26. Married housing in dorms, and a general acceptance of early marriage iis needed in this culture.
Pro-abstinence/smart folks bump!!
I've actually known (but never dated) more than one girl who subscribed to this bizarre philosophy. A good proportion of the girls who were into "abstinence" basically implemented it as doing everything except vaginal sex.
Does this make sense? Not really. But it is far more common among the girls that claim abstinence than I would have guessed not knowing any better. Incidentally, This predates the Clinton/Monica thing, so I wouldn't blame it on him. I remember one girl telling me she learned it in Catholic school of all places. Go figure.
Me neither, but I've known plenty of nutty girls who did. It suggests that the definitions of abstinence are not well-defined for many teenagers.
Humans are biologically meant to marry in their late teens and early 20's. People now are delaying the maturation process way, way past that. Their "options" and "life choices" include behaving like an adolescent well into adulthood.
It's BS, and not worth the read
Point well taken. But that kind doesn't make babies, spread disease, or otherwise ruin very many lives. And even that temptation can be successfully fought.
Maybe sitting or lying down would be better.
They're really reaching here.
And it is a little odd for the liberal press to admit that anal sex is a means for transmitting STDs. You never hear this mentioned in stories about gays, do you?
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