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.
Your optimism could be warranted. A 1998 study of 73,000 Minnesota high school students reveals that "The most common reasons for abstinence selected by females who had never had sex were a fear of pregnancy (82% of ninth-grade, 77% of 12th-grade students) or of STDs (75% and 61%, respectively). The third most common reason selected by ninth graders was the belief that sex was not right for a person their age (70%), and by 12th graders was a decision to wait until marriage (58%). . . .Among males who had never had sex, only about one in five in each grade cited concern about pregnancy as a major reason for their abstinence. Concern about STDs was the most common reason selected by ninth graders (57%) and the second most common reason selected by 12th graders (46%). The most common reason selected by 12th-grade males who had never had sex was a decision to wait until marriage (47%).