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Virginity pledge mere vanity
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-03-21 17:08
Adolescents who take virginity pledges are not less likely to run the risk of
sexually transmitted disease (STD) infection compared to those who don't, a
recent research found.
Adolescents who
take virginity pledges do not attain a lowered risk of sexually
transmitted disease (STD) infection compared to those who don't,
researchers from Yale University and Columbia University have found, after
studying the sexual behavior of about 12000
youngsters. | After studying the sexual behavior
of about 12000 youngsters, researchers from Yale University and Columbia
University have found that teens pledging virginity until marriage are more
likely to have oral and anal sex than other teens who have not had intercourse.
"Since pledgers have fewer sexual partners than non-pledgers, they start
having sex later, and they marry earlier, so they should have lower STD rates,
but they don't." said Hannah Brueckner, assistant professor of sociology at Yale
and one of the study's authors.
The study, published in the Journal of Adolescent Health, said, "Advocates
for abstinence-only education assert that premarital abstinence and post-marital
sex are necessary and sufficient for avoiding negative consequences of sexual
activity, such as STDs. This assertion collides with the realities of
adolescents and young adults lives."
Last year, the same research team found that 88 percent of teens who pledge
abstinence end up having sex before marriage, compared with 99 percent of teens
who do not make a pledge.
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