[lit-ideas] Just say no.
- From: "Andreas Ramos" <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Lit-Ideas" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 12:40:20 -0800
(This is very funny. One of the cornerstones of the Values movement turned out
to be
worthless. -- andreas)
Teenagers who take virginity pledges -- public declarations to abstain from sex
-- are
almost as likely to be infected with a sexually transmitted disease as those
who never made
the pledge, an eight-year study released yesterday found.
Although young people who sign a virginity pledge delay the initiation of
sexual activity,
marry at younger ages and have fewer sexual partners, they are also less likely
to use
condoms and more likely to experiment with oral and anal sex, said the
researchers from Yale
and Columbia universities. "The sad story is that kids who are trying to
preserve their
technical virginity are, in some cases, engaging in much riskier behavior,"
said lead author
Peter S. Bearman, a professor at Columbia's Institute for Social and Economic
Research and
Policy. "From a public health point of view, an abstinence movement that
encourages no
vaginal sex may inadvertently encourage other forms of alternative sex that are
at higher
risk of STDs."
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/216655_medi19.html
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=21517
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48509-2005Mar18.html
yrs,
andreas
www.andreas.com
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