[NYer]

These statistics could be applied to any religious group. The key to understanding this is in the question of how many “read the Bible” versus those who do not. IOW, how may actively practice their faith vs those who do not. This model is applicable across the board.

[driftdiver]

Culturally its expected and normal for people to be sexually active.

Of course that is biblically wrong but peer pressure is powerful.

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I tend to doubt the number is as high as 80%. Even if it is, show me the numbers of practicing Evangelicals. Betcha its somewhat lower to say the least.

[donna]

Unmarried Evangelicals (80 percent have had sex)

In other news, America has a 20 percent chance of surviving the Obama presidency!

[The_Media_never_lie]

What is about human nature that causes us to obsess about whom other people are having sex with? We just can’t stand it if other people are happy?

[USMCPOP]

When I was young, I’d have settled for a 10% hit ratio.

[SnakeDoctor]

Do you mean to tell me that Christians are sinners? Say it ain’t so.

We’re fallen and redeemed ... not immune to temptation. We try. We fail. We try again.

SnakeDoc

[mel]

Paradox hormones raging , G-d given physical desires. It is tough to be young especially in this day

[Bratch]

Christians aren't perfect. Whatta shock.

[Liberty Valance]

[Darren McCarty]

I was so drunk, I honestly don’t remember......

[ReformedBeckite]

Kind of like planned children, I’ve heard 60-70% of children are unplanned, I suspect it is a lot higher though, kind of like 90% of men will admit they wank off, why 10% of men lie about it.

[RegulatorCountry]

This is interesting. I suppose you have this same survey of your own church? How do Catholic youth stack up in the sexual morality department vis-a-vis Evangelical youth?

That would be even more interesting. It wouldn't be quite such a partisan gotcha post, though.

[Jim Noble]

Marriage at 28 is ahistorical and represents a burden for most. Not to mention the effects on the next generation.

[Mr Rogers]

I’m a baptist. For a short time, we attended a Southern Baptist church locally. Our teen daughter went to their high school Bible study. About a month later, the couple teaching the Bible study asked us to pull our daughter for being insensitive.

Seems they were discussing premarital sex (and apparently that was a topic most of the time), and our daughter asked insensitive questions like, “What is so hard about saying no?”, or, “God’s opinion is pretty clear, isn’t it?” She even said “If the boy REALLY loved you, he would want you to wait!”

It seems those ideas were too judgmental, and indicated she didn’t understand how overpowering the sexual urge was.

We decided their brand of morality differed too much from ours, and found a baptist church (also SBC, incidentally) a few miles in a different direction.

[Salvation]

Interesting.