Teens' Pledge Against Sex Doesn't Stop Disease: ; Study Finds Rate of; Transmittal Similar to Active Teenagers
Charleston Daily Mail › March 10, 2004
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PHILADELPHIA - Teens who pledge to remain virgins until marriage have the same rates of sexually transmitted diseases as those who don't pledge abstinence, according to a study that examined the sex lives of 12,000 adolescents.
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.See the full content of this document
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Teens' Pledge Against Sex Doesn't Stop Disease: ; Study Finds Rate of; Transmittal Similar to Active Teenagers
The problem, the study found, is that those virginity "pledgers" are much less likely to use condoms.
"It's difficult to simultane...See the full content of this document
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