For those asking "how can you get a Sexually Transmitted Disease without having sex", I suggest they read this article:
http://www.ivillagehealth.com/expert...a=adid=7949056 (you have to skip the annoying ad
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The point is that "sexually" transmitted is a mis-nomer. Herpes can be contracted through kissing or touching, diseases like HIV and Hepatitis can be passed on through infected blood or blood products, so to suggest that, by abstinence from penetratitve , you can avoid these diseases is, at best, wrong, and, at worst, dangerously misleading.
This article
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/...166168,00.html gives more information "American teenagers who take the pledge to remain virgins until they marry have almost the same rate of sexually transmitted disease as other young people, a new study of adolescent behaviour says."
IMO the *only* way to prevent transmission of these diseases is by given children the *full* facts, not a one-sided "abstinence is the only way" moralistic crusade.