That is one study. Reality refutes it. /QUOTE]
Actually, there are 10 but, hey, it's only the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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That is one study. Reality refutes it. /QUOTE]
Actually, there are 10 but, hey, it's only the Journal of the American Medical Association.
We make our own reality.
If you say so.@KenS, yes there were multiple studies. They do not appear to support your claims. Are you merely reading headlines? It is more likely that you copied and pasted from a supposedly Christian source. I used the word "supposedly" since Christian sources do not seem to have problem with more than stretching the truth at times.
If you say so.
We know that secular studied NEVER stretch the truth or outright lie.
Yes, I am aware of this study too made by "animal physiology" Dr Stranger-Hall. Strange but hey.Don't know where you got your "Virginity Pledge Program" quote from, although it may have come from the conservative Heritage Foundation, which likes to push virginity pledges, but following your researchgate.net/publication. link I came across this much more recent article.
From the NCBI, (National Center for Biotechnology Information) An agency of the federal government.
"The United States ranks first among developed nations in rates of both teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. In an effort to reduce these rates, the U.S. government has funded abstinence-only sex education programs for more than a decade. However, a public controversy remains over whether this investment has been successful and whether these programs should be continued. Using the most recent national data (2005) from all U.S. states with information on sex education laws or policies (N = 48), we show that increasing emphasis on abstinence education is positively correlated with teenage pregnancy and birth rates. This trend remains significant after accounting for socioeconomic status, teen educational attainment, ethnic composition of the teen population, and availability of Medicaid waivers for family planning services in each state. These data show clearly that abstinence-only education as a state policy is ineffective in preventing teenage pregnancy and may actually be contributing to the high teenage pregnancy rates in the U.S. In alignment with the new evidence-based Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative and the Precaution Adoption Process Model advocated by the National Institutes of Health, we propose the integration of comprehensive sex and STD education into the biology curriculum in middle and high school science classes and a parallel social studies curriculum that addresses risk-aversion behaviors and planning for the future."
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So while virginity pledges may delay a child's first sexual experience it comes at the cost of increased teenage pregnancy. Nice trade off.
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you obviously didn't read the full report.You are not paying attention. What you claim does not appear to be in those studies.
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Any guesses?What is god's huge problem with fornication, the insertion of a penis into a vagina, while unmarried?
You obviously could not quote from it properly nor link it.you obviously didn't read the full report.
And once again the AMA Journal does not appear to support your claims.Yes, I am aware of this study too made by "animal physiology" Dr Stranger-Hall. Strange but hey.
Created during the Obama administration. One source, one researcher in a field not her own.
So, we have different reports with opposite deductions. I prefer the AMA Journal
Don't know where you got your Virginity Pledge Programs quote from but it kind of reeks of The Heritage Foundation. In any case, I came across some additional information based on actual studies of Virginity Pledge Programs you may be interested in.Disagree:
19. Michael Resnick, M.D., et al., "Protecting Adolescents from Harm: Findings from the National Longitudinal Study on Adolescent Health," Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 278 (September 10, 1997). The effects of a virginity pledge in reducing sexual activity were statistically significant at the 99.9 percent confidence level.
https://www.researchgate.net/public...ional_Longitudinal_Study_on_Adolescent_Health
Virginity Pledge Programs. An article in the Journal of the American Medical Association by Dr. Michael Resnick and others entitled "Protecting Adolescents From Harm: Findings from the National Longitudinal Study on Adolescent Health" shows that "abstinence pledge" programs are dramatically effective in reducing sexual activity among teenagers in grades 7 through 12. Based on a large national sample of adolescents, the study concludes that "Adolescents who reported having taken a pledge to remain a virgin were at significantly lower risk of early age of sexual debut."[20]In fact, the study found that participating in an abstinence program and taking a formal pledge of virginity were by far the most significant factors in a youth's delaying early sexual activity. The study compared students who had taken a formal pledge of virginity with students who had not taken a pledge but were otherwise identical in terms of race, income, school performance, degree of religiousness, and other social and demographic factors. Based on this analysis, the authors discovered that the level of sexual activity among students who had taken a formal pledge of virginity was one-fourth the level of that of their counterparts who had not taken a pledge. Overall, nearly 16 percent of girls and 10 percent of boys were found to have taken a virginity pledge.
You are funnyAnd once again the AMA Journal does not appear to support your claims.
Try again.
So did you lie, or can you simply not support your claim? You obviously do not know how to debate properly.You are funny
OK... we agree to disagree.
Listen, we can go back and forth on this all day long:Don't know where you got your Virginity Pledge Programs quote from but it kind of reeks of The Heritage Foundation. In any case, I came across some additional information based on actual studies of Virginity Pledge Programs you may be interested in.
"There have been numerous peer-reviewed studies of virginity pledges with varying results. Four of the five peer-reviewed virginity pledge studies and the non-peer-reviewed study discussed below use the same federal data, the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), in which 13,000 adolescents were interviewed in 1995, 1996, and 2000. The other peer-reviewed study used a study of virginity pledges in California.
The first peer-reviewed study of virginity pledgers found that in the year following their pledge, some virginity pledgers are more likely to delay sex than non-pledgers; when virginity pledgers do have sex, they are less likely to use contraception than non-pledgers. This study found, however, that virginity pledges are only effective in high schools in which about 30% of the students had taken the pledge, meaning that they are not effective as a universal measure.
A second peer-reviewed study looked at virginity pledgers five years after their pledge, and found that the pledgers have similar proportions of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and at least as high proportions of anal and oral sex as those who have not made a virginity pledge. They deduced that there was substitution of oral and anal sex for vaginal sex among the pledgers, although the data for anal sex without vaginal sex reported by males did not reflect this directly.
A third peer-reviewed study found that adolescents who make an informal promise to themselves not to have sex will delay sex, but adolescents who take a formal virginity pledge do not delay sex.
A fourth peer-reviewed study — by Harvard public health researcher Janet Rosenbaum published in the American Journal of Public Health in June 2006 — found that over half of adolescents who took virginity pledges said the following year that they had never taken a pledge. This study showed that those who make the pledge but have sex are likely to deny ever pledging; and many who were sexually active prior to taking the pledge deny their sexual history, which, it is speculated, may cause them to underestimate their risk of having STIs.
A fifth peer-reviewed study, also by Janet Rosenbaum published in the journal Pediatrics in 2009, found no difference in sexual behavior of pledgers and similar non-pledgers five years after pledging, but found pledgers were 10 percentage points less likely to use condoms and 6 percentage points less likely to use birth control than similar non-pledgers.
Criticism
The efficacy of virginity pledges has been extensively studied. Some studies have found that virginity pledges may be effective at delaying vaginal intercourse, but that they are ineffective in reducing the incidence of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) because pledgers may replace vaginal intercourse with other sexual activities, such as oral sex and anal sex; other research, however, has suggested no such substitution among pledgers, though pledgers may partake in vaginal or oral sex. Virginity pledges may also reduce the likelihood of contraceptive use once pledgers decide to engage in sex. Though studies have reported this and found that pledgers are more likely to remain virgins by age 25 than those who do not pledge and that those who do become sexually active report fewer sexual partners, at least one study found no difference in the sexual behavior of pledgers and non-pledgers after controlling for pre-existing differences between the groups.
Source: Wikipedia
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You would like that... but noSo did you lie, or can you simply not support your claim? You obviously do not know how to debate properly.
Sorry, too late. Your inability to support your claims shows that it was one or the other.You would like that... but no
Keep dreaming my dear friend.Interesting how @KenS has had to shift the goal posts. In effect admitting that he was wrong about fornication among adults.
Keep dreaming my dear friend.
MY MISTAKE AND I APOLOGIZE. my post wasn't in the least relevant.Yes, I am aware of this study too made by "animal physiology" Dr Stranger-Hall. Strange but hey.
Created during the Obama administration. One source, one researcher in a field not her own.
So, we have different reports with opposite deductions. I prefer the AMA Journal
By "closed couples" I assume you mean married couples, because for sure unmarried couples were be-smitten with rampaging sickness.Surely you've been told, countless times, that back in the day the Israelites needed to stick to closed couples in order to avoid rampaging sickness weakening the whole people.
So what happened when two people got married, their "sin sicknesses or weaknesses" disappeared?Any Sin could lead to various kinds of sickness or weakness. It was nothing to do with morals, just tribal success......... which worked.