Sex Ed
Posted by Joshua Claybourn on 1 February 2005 | 5 responses
In a study that we’ll likely hear about a lot in the coming days, researchers at Texas A&M University found that despite taking courses emphasizing abstinence-only themes, teenagers in 29 high schools became increasingly sexually active. We shouldn’t be all that surprised that sexual activity among teens progresses during a given time period. Does abstinence education slow sexual activity? This research doesn’t seem to compare studied children with a control group over the same period, at least according to the news reports. I’m sure that research will come to light eventually, and those will be the studies worth examining in detail.
Some thousands of years of recorded history would show about the same thing, without the cost. Mother Nature intends for teenagers to become sexually active and does all in her considerable power to ensure it. It is society that attempts to channel, by marriage, for instance, the practical results of Nature’s powers so that the ends of human society may be met.
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Umm.. a placebo? You mean, where teens think they’re getting abstinence only education but they’re not really?
I mean a control group. Correction granted, and made.
Joshua, your post reminded me of this interesting & somewhat related article. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,145530,00.html