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Originally Posted by aceventura3
List a source for one of the studies and lets take a look at it.
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http://www.mathematica-mpr.com/publi...abstinence.pdf
"The main objective of Title V, Section 510 abstinence education programs is to teach
abstinence from sexual activity outside of marriage. The impact results from the four
selected programs show no impacts on rates of sexual abstinence. About half of all study
youth had remained abstinent at the time of the final follow-up survey, and program and
control group youth had similar rates of sexual abstinence. Moreover, the average age at
first sexual intercourse and the number of sexual partners were almost identical for program
and control youth."
Abstinence-only programs for HIV infection prevention in high-income countries
"Overall, the trials did not indicate that abstinence-only programs can reduce HIV risk as indicated by behavioral outcomes (e.g., unprotected vaginal sex) or biological outcomes (e.g., sexually transmitted infection). Instead, the programs consistently had no effect on participants' incidence of unprotected vaginal sex, frequency of vaginal sex, number of sex partners, sexual initiation, or condom use."
Patient teenagers? A comparison of the sexual beha...[Pediatrics. 2009] - PubMed Result
"Five years after the pledge, 82% of pledgers denied having ever pledged. Pledgers and matched nonpledgers did not differ in premarital sex, sexually transmitted diseases, and anal and oral sex variables."
http://courses.gov.harvard.edu/gov30.../rosenbaum.pdf
"Conclusions: Five years after taking a virginity pledge, most virginity pledgers
fail to report having pledged. Virginity pledges do not affect the incidence of
self-reported pre-marital sex or assay-determined chlamydia."
we could go on, if you want.