I am afraid that Kersten did indeed insinuate that they ‘understood that it was a con’ that ‘everybody does it’. How many of those 53% would LIKE to do it but haven't yet had the opportunity?
At least you're admitting that it's not a matter of everyone's "[taking] a moral stand for virginity." And obviously not every abstainer has wised up to the liberal "con [that] everybody does it." Some of the 53 percent have taken that stand, others are afraid of STDs, and yet others haven't had an oppportunity to succumb to temptation. I don't care the reasons; my money's on the percentage to grow larger than 53 percent.