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Originally Posted by Xaccers
Unfortunately, studies on these abstainence schemes have proven that the majority of kids on it are shagging within 2 years and are much MORE likely to not use condoms
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I can understand that. Rather than being taught about safe sex (as teaching the use of condoms would "encourage sexual activity"
), they're taught not to have sex full stop.....so when they do eventually "give in" & have sex, they know less about it than kids who have not been on these programmes.
Doesn't help that a lot of these abstinence programmes actually slam condom use, & spread propaganda that they are useless against protecting against STDs & pregnancy.
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Originally Posted by danielf
I'm not surprised at all, but a link would be nice?  |
Graham posted a link to a story about a US study, on the previous page of this thread.
Here's the story:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/...166168,00.html
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The whole thing is definitely worth reading, but here's a snippet:
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US study of teenage sexual disease destroys basis of virginity crusade
Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington
Wednesday March 10, 2004
The Guardian
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.
The finding destroys a key rationale for the abstinence crusade - that it prevents disease - and poses a strong challenge to a social engineering project that has been embraced by the White House.
The eight-year study of 12,000 young people by two American sociologists found that the graduates of abstinence programmes were nearly as likely as other young people to catch sexually transmitted infections such as gonorrhoea or chlamydia.
Other findings, yet to be published, also suggest that abstinence programmes do not prevent early pregnancy, Hannah Bruckner, a sociologist at Yale University and co-author of the study, said.
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Church-based abstinence programmes are openly hostile to condoms and preach that they do not guard against disease.
(snip)
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EDIT: Same study, BBC News story -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3546007.stm