Also see: The Boston Globe Comes Out: Sex
As for the thrust (ha-ha) of this topic, well, I say DON'T DO IT, kids!
Don't take the PLEDGE!!!!
Take from someone who missed what could have been a lot of fun experiences. Looking back now, it wasn't worth it, to say no so often for some fucked-up dreamland of a world.
I say EXPERIMENT AWAY KIDS and FIND OUT ABOUT YOUR WORLD and EACH OTHER!!!
And if you crank out the babies, SO WHAT? We have TRILLIONS for WAR and KILLING and BILLIONS for BANKS and ISRAEL, so WHAT'S A FEW MORE PRECIOUS LIVES in this world, huh?
To quote someone famous, "Bring 'em on!!"
Because I LOVE LIFE -- as opposed to the mass-murdering sob I quoted there!!!
;-)
"Teen virginity vows worked - for some; Slightly lower rate of sexual activity found with pledge" by Reuters | June 11, 2008
WASHINGTON - Taking a pledge to remain a virgin until marriage may help some teens and young adults in delaying the start of sexual activity, US researchers reported yesterday.
A study by the Rand Corporation research institute found that 34 percent of youths who took such pledges as teens had had sexual intercourse within three years compared with 42 percent of similar teens who did not make virginity pledges.
Where is my salt shaker?
Boom-boom-boom-boom, boom-boom-boom-boom.
You hear something?
The Rand team said they had taken into account differences such as religious beliefs, parenting, and friendship characteristics.
There has been conflicting evidence on the effectiveness of such pledges, which were started in the United States in 1993 by the Southern Baptist Convention. Hundreds of churches, schools, and colleges around the world now promote them.
"Making a pledge to remain a virgin until married may provide extra motivation to adolescents who want to delay becoming sexually active," said Steven Martino, a psychologist at Rand who led the study. "The act of pledging may create some social pressure or social support that helps them to follow through with their clearly stated public intention."
The Rand report cited estimates that 23 percent of US females and 16 percent of males have made a virginity pledge.
Currently 48 percent of US high school students say they have had sex, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Some researchers had speculated that teens might substitute other sexual activities, such as oral sex, for intercourse.
Clever kids! :-)
Screwing better than killing and warring, isn't it, kids?
But the Rand study found that those who pledged were no more likely to engage in sexual behaviors that fall short of full intercourse than other comparable youth - findings that fit in with a study by the Alan Guttmacher Institute in New York last month.
"Waiting until you are older to have sex is good for teens from a health standpoint," Martino said in a statement. "There are lots of reasons for more kids to wait until they are older."
Yeah, and there are a lot of reasons not to, too!!!
Let's talk HORMONES, for starters.
Yup, you wanna shut down THOUSANDS of YEARS of BIOLOGY, huh?
Well, good luck on that one!!!
How about LOVING WHOEVER GETS HERE, how about that?
You know, feeding them, caring for them? Another reason could be WHAT IF YOU DON'T GET THAT CHANCE AGAIN?
I don't know where you come from, but people don't take rejection very well. If you come sniffing around later they usually stick out an asshole or something!
Now, I know you like stuffing your face with shit, 'murka, but come on....
Martino and colleagues surveyed 1,461 adolescent virgins ages 12 to 17 in 2001. About a quarter said they had taken a virginity pledge. The researchers interviewed them again one and three years later.
Excuse me?
What the fucking hell are you PERVERTS TALKING TO 12-year-olds FOR?!!
Oh, I DON'T LIKE THIS ONE BIT!!!
That's JUST A TAD YOUNG, wouldn't you say, sickos?!
That's who is DOING THE STUDY!!!!!
Great racket: Think of a perverted thing, and then get a study of it funded!
Well done, sickies!!!!
Yeah, and MY LANGUAGE is a problem, right!!!
Pffffftttt!!!!
"These findings do not suggest that virginity pledges should be a substitute for comprehensive sexual education programs, or that they will work for all kinds of kids," said Martino. "But virginity pledges may be appropriate as one component of an overall sex education effort."
What's next, a Sig Heil pledge (in Hebrew)?
One debate has centered on whether school-based sex education policies should focus on abstinence, with virginity pledges a possible component. Many sex educators argue that youths need information about how to protect themselves from pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.
Maybe if the government stopped giving the things to them through the vaccines it wouldn't be a problem.
The Rand study did not find that the adolescents who made a virginity pledge were less likely to use a condom when they eventually did have sex. However, they were not asked if they always used condoms or used them the first time they had intercourse."
Why would they bother to use condoms? They are virgins!!!
And if a little bundle of joy arrives 9 months later, well, you already know my feelings about that!
