It also says:
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Those who make a public pledge to abstain until marriage delay sex, have fewer sex partners and get married earlier, according to the data, gathered from adolescents ages 12 to 18 who were questioned again six years later. But the two groups' STD rates were statistically similar.
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Which suggests they found no significant correlation between signing said pledge and avoiding STDs--the group of adolescents who signed said pledges contracted STDs at the same rate as those who didn't in the study. So basically, this suggests that abstinence-only education is ineffective at best.