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Originally Posted by MossadConspiracy
Well I didnt read the article but i've seen several studies about this and they've all showed that adolescents assigned to abstinence-only interventions have a higher incidence of STDs compared to adolescents assigned to interventions in which a variety of safe sex options are offered (including abstinence). I dont see how this cannot be used to draw conclusions about the effectiveness of abstinence-only. Clearly from the risk-reduction perspective, those programs are worse.
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Yeah, I was evaluating effectiveness based on whether or not they engaged in sex, not whether or not they got STDs. Guess it depends on what the goals of the abstinence program are. If it's simply to get young kids to stop having premarital sex for the sake of it, that's one thing, and if it's to reduce STD risk, that's obviously another. In this society you can effectively do the latter, but probably not the former.