People need to wake up to reality. Abstinence programs do not work. Why? Because teenagers have a massive amount of hormones. Nothing is going to change that. It seems that the insistence on abstinence only education is the result of an unrelenting cycle of fantasy and wishful thinking. A majority of young people engage in sex before marriage and then they grow up into adults and have sons and daughters and decide to delude themselves into thinking that their kids will be different and won't be the same as they were. So they give their daughters promise rings etc. etc. But the problem is THIS.
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Of 12,000 teenagers who had promised to stay virgins until marriage, 88 percent reported engaging in premarital sex, according to the study, released at the National Sexually Transmitted Disease Prevention Conference in March 2004.
And further complicating things:
While teens who signed pledges did not become sexually active until a year and a half after making their promise, the study also found that when those teens did break their pledges, they were far less likely to use birth control than teens who did not make pledges.
This also does not take into consideration the kids that think oral and anal are noble alternatives to old vanilla sexual intercourse. Sorry folks. It just does not work.
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