From Salon.com (you have to view a commercial to get free access to the whole article:
New Rule: Abstinence pledges make you horny. A new eight-year study just released reveals that American teenagers who take "virginity" pledges of the sort so favored by the Bush administration wind up with just as many STDs as the other kids.But that's not all -- taking the pledges also makes a teenage girl six times more likely to perform oral sex, and a boy four times more likely to get anal. Which leads me to an important question: where were these pledges when I was in high school?
Seriously, when I was a teenager, the only kids having anal intercourse were the ones who missed. My idea of lubrication was oiling my bike chain. If I had known I could have been getting porn star sex the same year I took Algebra II, simply by joining up with the Christian right, I'd have been so down with Jesus they would have had to pry me out of the pew.
Ah, Bill Maher, one of my idols.
If I had known I could have been getting porn star sex the same year I took Algebra II, simply by joining up with the Christian right, I'd have been so down with Jesus they would have had to pry me out of the pew.
Amen, Brother.
Then the latest study reporting that teens are engaged in more oral sex, because they have learned from their abstinence education that it doesn't count. Course, they have also learned that oral sex is safe sex, and that as long as they don't use condoms they are not being sinners. You have to really appreciate the curriculum. Then today the DHHS introduced 4parents.gov.
From what I have read, they are also engaged in more anal sex. Anal sex isn't "sexual relations," so it's ok. The only thing that's verboten vis-a-vis abstinence is penile/vaginal sex.
Say, has anyone seen the Trio documentry, "Texas Teenage Virgins?" Some of these kids were so ignorant that they claimed they had "spit babies."