Old Hippie Posted March 20, 2005 Report Share Posted March 20, 2005 Study: Abstinence Pledgers May Risk STDs March 18, 2005 11:03 PM EST NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Teens who pledge to remain virgins until marriage are more likely to take chances with other kinds of sex that increase the risk of sexually transmitted diseases, a study of 12,000 adolescents suggests. The report by Yale and Columbia University researchers could help explain their earlier findings that teens who pledged abstinence are just as likely to have STDs as their peers. The latest study, published in the April issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health, found that teens pledging virginity until marriage are more likely to have oral and anal sex than other teens who have not had intercourse. That behavior, however, "puts you at risk," said Hannah Brueckner, assistant professor of sociology at Yale and one of the study's authors. Among virgins, boys who have pledged abstinence were four times more likely to have had anal sex, according to the study. Overall, pledgers were six times more likely to have oral sex than teens who have remained abstinent but not as part of a pledge. The pledging group was also less likely to use condoms during their first sexual experience or get tested for STDs, the researchers found. Data for the study was taken from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. An in-school questionnaire was given to a nationally representative sample of students in grades 7-12 and followed up with a series of in-home interviews roughly one, two, and six years later. It was funded in part by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Leslee Unruh, president of the National Abstinence Clearinghouse in Sioux Falls, S.D., called the study "bogus," disputing that those involved had pledged true "abstinence." "Kids who pledge abstinence are taught that any word that has 'sex' in it is considered a sexual activity," Unruh said. "Therefore oral sex is sex, and they are staying away." Millions of teens have signed written pledges or verbally promised to abstain from sex, part of a church-led effort to discourage premarital sex and the spread of disease. President Bush has boosted funding for abstinence-only education in schools. Critics say that education needs to be coupled with safe-sex education to be effective. "If adolescents only had sex in monogamous, married relationships, by definition there would be no STDs," Brueckner said, echoing President Bush's remarks in last year's State of the Union address. "But the majority of adolescents don't live like that. They do have sex." Last year, the same research team found that 88 percent of teens who pledge abstinence end up having sex before marriage, compared with 99 percent of teens who do not make a pledge. --- On the Net: Journal of Adolescent Health: http://www.jahonline.org/ National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health: http://www.cpc.unc.edu/addhealth National Abstinence Clearinghouse: http://www.abstinence.net/ We need to stamp this no sex till marrage crap out before we start an epedemic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nervous_Dog Posted March 20, 2005 Report Share Posted March 20, 2005 OK - I am kicking everyone out of the house so I can get some from the wie, this scars me, really sccares, me, from now on, I won;t go 8 hours with out sex! DOG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Hippie Posted March 20, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 20, 2005 Sex with your wife? on a Saturday night? I don't know, that just seems...I don't know, wrong or something...maybe a bit kinky, so what the hell...enjoy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nervous_Dog Posted March 20, 2005 Report Share Posted March 20, 2005 Couldn;t get the neices out of the house so I watched the F1 and then went for a massage wth the sister in law DOG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El_Tel Posted March 24, 2005 Report Share Posted March 24, 2005 Nervous_Dog said:OK - I am kicking everyone out of the house so I can get some from the wie, this scars me, really sccares, me, from now on, I won;t go 8 hours with out sex! DOG Sex with your wife 'scars' you? Hey, dude. You need to take it easy with the whips there. :: Nervous_Dog said:Couldn;t get the neices out of the house so I watched the F1 and then went for a massage wth the sister in law DOG Your sister-in-law gave you a massage? Jeez Dog, that's one great family you got there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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