{"id":7572,"date":"2006-06-02T10:23:08","date_gmt":"2006-06-02T14:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=7572"},"modified":"2006-06-02T10:23:08","modified_gmt":"2006-06-02T14:23:08","slug":"sometimes-virginity-pledgers-lie-about-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/sometimes-virginity-pledgers-lie-about-sex\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes, virginity pledgers lie about sex"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve known for a while that [tag]abstinence[\/tag]-only policies are costly<\/a>, inaccurate<\/a>, and ineffective<\/a>. But in case those minor details weren’t enough, it’s also worth remembering that teenagers [tag]lie[\/tag]<\/a> about their [tag]sexual[\/tag] history.<\/p>\n

Teenagers who take pledges to remain [tag]virgins[\/tag] until marriage are likely to deny having taken the pledge if they later become sexually active. Conversely, those who were sexual active before taking the [tag]pledge[\/tag] frequency deny their sexual history, according to new study findings.<\/p>\n

These findings imply that [tag]virginity[\/tag] pledgers often provide unreliable data, making assessment of abstinence-based sex education programs unreliable. In addition, these teens may also underestimate their risk of exposure to sexually transmitted diseases.<\/p>\n

“Teenagers do not report their past [tag]sex[\/tag]ual activity accurately, with virginity pledgers giving more inaccurate reports of their past sexual activity,” study author Janet Rosenbaum, of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, told Reuters Health.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Among those willing to admit it, more than half of the adolescents who sign abstinence pledges break the promise within a year<\/a>. And since much of the other half lie about it, it’s getting increasingly difficult for any serious person to say with a straight face that abstinence-only is effective.<\/p>\n

If only that was enough to convince Bush to stop throwing our money<\/a> at this nonsense, we’d see some real progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’ve known for a while that [tag]abstinence[\/tag]-only policies are costly, inaccurate, and ineffective. But in case those minor details weren’t enough, it’s also worth remembering that teenagers [tag]lie[\/tag] about their [tag]sexual[\/tag] history. Teenagers who take pledges to remain [tag]virgins[\/tag] until marriage are likely to deny having taken the pledge if they later become sexually active. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}