I was waiting for that lame argument. Even if precisely the same number of boys are afflicted as girls, the percentage would be the same. Numerator increases, denominator increases, fraction stays the same.
But what if more boys are effected than girls...
There are lies, damn lies and stats! so asking what is this number, what does it mean and how did you get it is only ‘lame’ when you have weak or incomplete numbers..
But the best part is that you are so busy trying to defend 60 or 20 or 40 that you ignore the point... Chasing your tail like a confused pup..
If a higher percent of teens who did not promise abstinence have STD’s than the number of teens who do promise abstinence that means to some degree abstinence pledges work...
The rest is figuring out just how much they work..
Or we can have it your way and just assume the little buggers are so hopped up on hormones they would screw anything that walks.. Hand out condoms, give them the nod and wink about making sex meaningful and waiting, and shooting them full of untested vaccines for diseases that everyone insisted were basically harmless (until we had a vaccine)..