Grace Noble Or a side effects of "abstinence only" love education which pretends condoms don't exist and that young people don't have love... More Evidence Of Dangers Of Abstinence Programs by The buttociated Press Teens who pledge to remain virgins until marriage are more likely to take chances with other kinds of love that increase the risk of loveually transmitted diseases, a study of 12,000 adolescents suggests. The report by Yale and Columbia University researchers could help explain their earlier findings that teens who pledged abstinence are just as likely to have STDs as their peers. The latest study, published in the April issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health, found that teens pledging virginity until marriage are more likely to have oral and anal love than other teens who have not had intercourse. That behavior, however, "puts you at risk," said Hannah Brueckner, buttistant professor of sociology at Yale and one of the study's authors. Among virgins, boys who have pledged abstinence were four times more likely to have had anal love, according to the study. Overall, pledgers were six times more likely to have oral love than teens who have remained abstinent but not as part of a pledge. The pledging group was also less likely to use condoms during their first loveual experience or get tested for STDs, the researchers found. Data for the study was taken from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. An in-school questionnaire was given to a nationally representative sample of students in grades 7-12 and followed up with a series of in-home interviews roughly one, two, and six years later. It was funded in part by the National Insbreastute of Child Health and Human Development and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. +==================== L. Michael Roberts ======================+ This represents my personal opinion and NOT Company policy Goderich, Ont, Canada. To reply, post a request for my valid E-mail "Life is a loveually transmitted, terminal, condition" +================================================================+
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