Virginity Pledges Don't Stop Teens From Having Sex, Study Shows

MONDAY, Dec. 29 (HealthDay News) -- Teens who take virginity pledges are just as likely to have sex as teens who don't make such promises -- and they're less likely to practice safe sex to prevent disease or pregnancy, a new study finds.

"Previous studies found that pledgers were more likely to delay having sex than non-pledgers," said study author Janet E. Rosenbaum, a post doctoral fellow at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. "I used the same data as previous studies but a different statistical method."

This method allowed Rosenbaum to compare those who had taken a virginity pledge with similar teens who hadn't taken a pledge but were likely to delay having sex, she said. She added that she didn't include teens who were unlikely to take a pledge.

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Comments

[banja]

I say bring back the chastity belt.

[SatinPanties]

Now there's some news!

What's next? water is wet? the sun rises in the east?

Shocked and appalled!

[Truby]

Stopping the urge to procreate.­........le­t me know how that works out.

[Wiserone]

This is what is really disturbing about the article, but no less the hypocracy:

"and they're less likely to practice safe sex to prevent disease or pregnancy".

[jesther]

Once you pop you cannot stop.

[SinisterK9]

The way this article is titled is misleading. If you read the article and how she went about changing the outcome of the study by applying a different statistical principal it's actually funny.

The initial study shows that those who take a pledge are more likely to delay having sex versus their fellow peers. The Doc does NOT dispute this. All she did was go back into the info, and remove those that are likely to have sex from the study all together. Then she only compares those who pledge, with those who are likely to delay having sex in the first place, but they aren't involved in a pledge.

[MajorKong]

If you don't want to have sex then don't have sex. My make such a big to do about it?