Study: Abstinence May Lead to Risky Acts

Yahoo via AP ^ | Mar 18, 2005 | MATT APUZZO

[texaspirate]

Study: Abstinence May Lead to Risky Acts

1 hour, 35 minutes ago U.S. National - AP

By MATT APUZZO, Associated Press Writer

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

[AngieGOP]

"You can do bad things with appliances?"

and apple pies too.

[texaspirate]

No DU plant. Just lurked for awhile and decided to post on occasion.

[Tench_Coxe]

And drinking water makes one more likely to drown. And breathing makes one more susceptible to suffocation.

But hey, its SCIENCE. So it should be accepted without question.

[CounterCounterCulture]

Nonsense and illogical

[JohnnyZ]

You can do bad things with appliances?

Not supposed to put metal in the microwave, I hear.

[mlbford2]

Maybe their could be a fudge factor of like 50 partners. Then I'd be right ............ oh never mind.

[mewzilla]

Condoms have a certain failure rate, but so do abstinence vows. Interesting article.

But condoms can fail even when used properly. If a vow of abstinence is kept, it's 100% effective :)

[Cicero]

They forgot to mention sheep.

[CounterCounterCulture]

I don't want to start a flame war, but expecting a human being to be 100% chaste until they're married is getting a little unreasonable.

Consider the average age for marriage is now 26 or so.

I've done it and I'm well-beyond 26.

Set expectations low, and your results will be low.

[hunter112]

This may just be the difference between intentions and reality.

[GovernmentShrinker]

A previous study showed that teens who had pledged abstinence waited a bit longer to have sex, but that when they did (which they did at the same rates as those who had not taken any such pledge), they were much more likely to be "unprepared" -- i.e. no contraceptives, including STD-reducing condoms.

[durasell]

Why buy the horse when you can milk the cow for free?

[longtermmemmory]

So the point of the story is that teenagers should be required to experiment with sex so they don't don something stupid.

Who wants to bet the "researchers" are either from GLSEN which wants children to experiment with sex, pedophiles, or some other homo-advocacy group?

[Fitzcarraldo]

They're bringing back the hairy palm and blindness arguments against masturbation?

[hunter112]

That's NOT the sex education we got on MY uncle's farm!

[texaspirate]

LOL - I wish you hadn't written that. It brings too many Aggie jokes to mind and I do not know how many Aggies are Freepers. I wouldn't want to insult them (Aggies that is).

[longtermmemmory]

so its either unprepared when young or unprepared when old.

It only tells me that preparation for older studends is better when they have matured rather that when they have yet to hit their teens.


Who sponsored this study? Abortion providers of america?

[Muleteam1]

First the story is by Associated Press and secondly it was used by Yahoo News. These first two strikes are enough to not believe the story but the twisted logic provides it a death sentence normally preserved for voodoo science.

Muleteam1