For all its fumbling, the Bush administration has one achievement of note: it has persuaded the American public that premarital sex is a risky behavior for teens, akin to smoking or gang activity. Given the intensity of the administration’s abstinence-until-marriage campaign, few were surprised when in February 2007, the Journal of Youth and Adolescence, a professional research journal, published a study… return to article
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Reader Comments (2)Page 1 of 1 pagesThe Bush people got something wrong? You have got to be kidding. That is the thing with the conservatives, they want to have things be as they were in the good old days. Problem is the good old days were terrible. Blacks hung from trees, gay folk castrated, women were little more than property. Yeah right, bring on the good old days. When are we as a nation going to realize that education is not our enemy? When I talk to people I am saddend by the level of ignorance that pervades in what could be the greatest nation in history. This is just another example of ignorance in action.
Posted by anthony.phillips29 on May 2, 2008 at 2:11 AM “In the January American Journal of Public Health, a team from Columbia University linked delays in sexual activity until after the teen years to problems in sexual functioning later in life.”
No surprise to me. I’ve met some of the adult casualties of the Teen Sex Wars—now plagued with sexual dysfunction and frustration.
The ultimate flaw in abstinence-only programs is their basis in fear. Instead of giving young people the facts and tools to make their own decisions, they indoctrinate them with the belief that sex brings bad things. Then they expect those irrational fears to magically vanish once people get married.
Unfortunately, the fears don’t go away, and they lead to even greater emotional suffering than what’s suggested by the “True Love Waits” presentations.
But, have no fear, because all that misery has opened the door to yet another growth industry ... Christian sex therapy!
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