The evidence has piled up for years that abstinence-only education is at best ineffective with no effect on its supporters. Thats because those people don’t give a shit about effective education. Most normal people, when finding that their solution has no effect on the problem tend to change what they are doing. This crowd chooses their actions based on predefined conclusions with no follow up. Because the results don’t matter, the intent does. They can’t stand the idea of women people having sex or evening thinking about sex. Therefor they don’t like sex ed, consequences be damned.
A new study reveals, surprise, that abistence education is completely useless:
For both the program and control group youth, the reported mean age at first intercourse was identical, 14.9 years,”
Amanda says:
The only reason to have abstinence-only “education” is to make a bunch of uptight, sexually repressed, closeted pervert adults get an ill-advised self-righteous goal of setting stupid standards for kids that they know will not be met, so those same adults can feel the self-righteous glee of imagining god damning another round of sinners to hell.
yeah, pretty much.
As an aside, that reuters article busts out some insipid balance halfway through:
Teens in both groups were just as likely to use condoms or birth control, the report found — countering the fears of critics of abstinence-only education, who say children ignorant of how to protect themselves from pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases will simply have more unprotected sex.
Ahh…well stupid us, abstinence education isn’t bad at all, it doesn’t make things worse! It just does nothing! Actually, I don’t believe that the control group received comprehensive sex-ed, which is what opponents of abstinence-only education want.
