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Abstinence Education Works After All

Barack-A-Sorros Wrote: Feb 05, 2010 10:21 AM

If you teach kids about Music, we get more musicians.

If you teach kids about science, we get more scientist.

If you teach kids about sex, we get more kids having sex.

Its called enviormental stimulation.

Abstinence-only sex education has been a favorite target of the cultural elite, who argued it was naive at best and dangerous at worst. Now, a new study published in the Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine suggests that encouraging young teens to just say no to sex may be the most effective method at delaying early sexual activity. The study, the first of its kind to employ rigorous research methods in a controlled setting, showed that programs that encouraged 12- to 14-year-old students to refrain from sexual activity "until they are ready" were more effective than other approaches.

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