well, color me unsurprised
Women's ENews reports :
* A recent Harvard University study has confirmed what many sexual health educators, including those who spoke at the Center for Disease Control's annual conference on sexually transmitted diseases last week, have suspected: that programs where teens sign virginity or abstinence pledges may be unreliable in preventing them from engaging in sexual intercourse and their effectiveness is hard to determine because of teens' suspect self-reporting. The study found that 53 percent of 13,000 adolescents between grades 7 and 12 who said they made a virginity pledge denied doing so a year later, often after they had become sexually active. Another 10 percent who had engaged in sexual intercourse before they signed pledges or became born-again Christians reported themselves as virgins.
So, can Dubya get his head out of his ass and fund real sexual education. You know, the kind with condoms and birth control.
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Glamour magazine (one of my favorite rags) ran an article entitled The new lies about women's health. One of the most cutting/telling quotes...
Dr. Shaber tries hard to separate fact from fiction because, she says, "rumor and hearsay can start to seem real." In the past, she'd sometimes refer patients to government websites and printed fact sheets, or rely on those outlets to help create her own materials. Not anymore. "As a physician, I can no longer trust government sources," says Dr. Shaber.
Maybe the ineffectiveness is from the lack of truth... ?