Study finds abstinence education delays sexual activity. - Polidicks

[quote]Sex education classes that focus on encouraging children to remain abstinent can convince a significant proportion to delay sexual activity, researchers reported Monday in a landmark study that could have major implications for the nation's embattled efforts to protect young people against unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases. In the first carefully designed study to evaluate the controversial approach to sex ed, researchers found that only about a third of 6th and 7th graders who went through sessions focused on abstinence started having sex in the next two years. In contrast, nearly half of students who got other classes, including those that included information about contraception, became sexually active. "I think we've written off abstinence-only education without looking closely at the nature of the evidence," said John B. Jemmott III, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, who led the federally funded study. "Our study shows this could be one approach that could be used." The research, published in the Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine, comes amid intense debate over how to reduce sexual activity, pregnancies, births and sexually transmitted diseases among children and teenagers. After declining for more than a decade, births, pregnancies and STDs among U.S. teens have begun increasing again. The Obama administration eliminated more than $150 million in federal funding targeted at abstinence programs, which are relatively new and have little rigorous evidence supporting their effectiveness. Instead it is launching a new $114 million pregnancy prevention initiative that will fund only programs that have been shown scientifically to work. The administration Monday proposed expanding that program to $183 million next year. The move came after intensifying questions about the effectiveness of abstinence programs. [/quote] Source and rest of article: [url]http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/01/AR2010020102628.html?hpid=topnews[/url] Um... while this may come as a surprise to some, I'd like to tell the researchers who did this study, uh, no shit Sherlocks. Really? We need a study to tell us that abstinence only delays sex activities? Maybe people forgot word of mouth and how when one person is abstaining but then their buddy tells them how great a time they had fucking, don't you think that would peak a little interest? And a billboard: [img]http://www.opposingviews.com/attachments/0002/5223/abstinence.jpg?1265067141[/img]

Fuck them

How can they tell the kids had sex?

Abstinence? Delaying sexual activity? NO WAY!

[QUOTE=davidofmk771;19984539]How can they tell the kids had sex?[/QUOTE] Well, you can tell if a girl has. For the male, I doubt it.

[QUOTE=davidofmk771;19984539]How can they tell the kids had sex?[/QUOTE] It's called a follow-up survey. Usually they will ask a series of questions pertaining along the lines of "Do you have a girlfriend/boyfriend? If so, how long have you been dating? Have you performed any of the following sexual activities?" People get paid big money to take part in them.

[QUOTE=Musicfreak59;19984577]It's called a follow-up survey. Usually they will ask a series of questions pertaining along the lines of "Do you have a girlfriend/boyfriend? If so, how long have you been dating? Have you performed any of the following sexual activities?" People get paid big money to take part in them.[/QUOTE] Paid for talking about sex? Hell, I could do that!

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;19984576]Well, you can tell if a girl has. For the male, I doubt it.[/QUOTE] What if they, you know, I can't think of any female masturbation metaphors. [QUOTE=Musicfreak59;19984577]It's called a follow-up survey. Usually they will ask a series of questions pertaining along the lines of "Do you have a girlfriend/boyfriend? If so, how long have you been dating? Have you performed any of the following sexual activities?" People get paid big money to take part in them.[/QUOTE] They could lie so they don't get shit about it.

Abstinence delays sexual activity...no shit. Better lose my virginity then.

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;19984576]Well, you can tell if a girl has. For the male, I doubt it.[/QUOTE] Well, if the little dorky quiet kid comes into school one day strutting his stuff like a big shot, I'm sure you'll know what he was doing the night before...

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;19984587]Paid for talking about sex? Hell, I could do that![/QUOTE] You're better off donating to a sperm bank. The surveys could take from a couple months to decades.

"Do you have a girlfriend/boyfriend? If so, how long have you been dating? Have you performed any of the following sexual activities?" "no"

Bullshit. Kids will not do what they are told. You teach them about diseases, THEN they'll not fuck (yeah right). Also, abstinence-only classes are fucking bullshit.

[QUOTE=davidofmk771;19984596]They could lie so they don't get shit about it.[/QUOTE] That's why most surveys aren't to be taken literally. Most are false positives.

[QUOTE=Musicfreak59;19984614]You're better off donating to a sperm bank. The surveys could take from a couple months to decades.[/QUOTE] You mean I can't do both?

[QUOTE=kellybear;19984571]Abstinence? Delaying sexual activity? NO WAY![/QUOTE] Agreed...

[QUOTE=Musicfreak59;19984629]That's why most surveys aren't to be taken literally. Most are false positives.[/QUOTE] So this is just another scheme to make sex bad instead of teaching about contraceptives.

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;19984630]You mean I can't do both?[/QUOTE] Well, depends on what the survey asks for.

[QUOTE=Musicfreak59;19984743]Well, depends on what the survey asks for.[/QUOTE] It can ask me to do what ever they want :smug:

[QUOTE=davidofmk771;19984661]So this is just another scheme to make sex bad instead of teaching about contraceptives.[/QUOTE] It's all about trade-offs. Sex is the greatest thing ever, but getting an STD isn't. Abstinence doesn't give you STDs, but it deprives you of one of life's greatest experiences. Obviously, we wouldn't be here today if everyone was a virgin.

Abstinence is fucking stupid. It is pushed by the religious fucknuts to try to stop kids doing dirty things that they will do anyway. "hurfdurf save yourself for marriage!" Why? so once the times comes you can be inexperianced as fuck and look like a retarded in front of your wife when you cum in 30 seconds? Nothing whatsoever is wrong with sex. This topic always makes me rage.

[QUOTE=Musicfreak59;19984766]It's all about trade-offs. Sex is the greatest thing ever, but getting an STD isn't. Abstinence doesn't give you STDs, but it deprives you of one of life's greatest experiences. Obviously, we wouldn't be here today if everyone was a virgin.[/QUOTE] And yet a magical ring and document prevents this.

[QUOTE=Musicfreak59;19984766]It's all about trade-offs. Sex is the greatest thing ever, but getting an STD isn't. Abstinence doesn't give you STDs, but it deprives you of one of life's greatest experiences. Obviously, we wouldn't be here today if everyone was a virgin.[/QUOTE] STDs are real but they are really just a big fear tactic used by these abstience people. " STDS ARE EVERYWHERE, HAVE SEX ONCE AND YOU GET IT FOR LIFE" Usually in a relationship you get to know someone before you have sex, and when the time does come it isn't something that is really easy to hide. Not many teenagers have STDs. It's not like you just have it by default. And assuming they do have an STD they are usually the greasy ass trash kids, and even if they arn't before your about to have sex it isn't too hard to spot if their vag looks like an overcooked pizza.

I hate how they teach us abstinence in school. Not that i care, but the teacher is such a bitch and makes me want to have unprotected sex just because she told me not to.

Just because children have less sex doesn't mean it's a better way to teach them.

[quote]In the first carefully designed study to evaluate the controversial approach to sex ed, researchers found that only about a third of 6th and 7th graders who went through sessions focused on abstinence started having sex in the next two years. In contrast, nearly half of students who got other classes, including those that included information about contraception, became sexually active.[/quote] What the fuck half of freshmen have already gotten laid and I haven't :argh:

In other news, the sky is blue and you can't live without oxygen.

This study is pretty useless, cause the problem isn't sexual activity. Sexual activity is fine, it's how you do it that can cause problems. It doesn't matter if half of the people who are taught abstinence wait 2 years before becoming sexually active, if when they do, they don't know anything about contraception or protection. Better start early and safe, than late and clueless.

Would be nice if they told the truth instead of base it all on a heap of shit. i.e. abstinence until you find someone special that you want to share your body with

[QUOTE=Aman V;19984787]Abstinence is fucking stupid. It is pushed by the religious fucknuts to try to stop kids doing dirty things that they will do anyway. "hurfdurf save yourself for marriage!" Why? so once the times comes you can be inexperianced as fuck and look like a retarded in front of your wife when you cum in 30 seconds? Nothing whatsoever is wrong with sex. This topic always makes me rage.[/QUOTE] Not really, you can commit to abstinence even if you're not religious. Forget about abstinence though, It's pretty disgusting having kids that are barely through puberty going around having sex. They can at least wait until they're 16 or something but 7th grade? Wtf?