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Originally posted by AggieSigmaNu361
link or stats please.
I want verified evidence or studies before i will believe this.
Kitso
KS 361 times i've heard GCer's thow out 'facts' and i'd like to see for myself
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You'll like this one -- it's a report on Texas.
http://hrw.org/reports/2002/usa0902/ (I got this particular quote from the section on virginity pledges.)
"There also is evidence that adolescents who pledge virginity may ultimately be at increased risk of HIV/AIDS infection. A study of virginity pledges often cited by abstinence-only groups found that although there is some evidence that these pledges delay intercourse by an average of eighteen months, as virginity pledges become the norm, they lose their allure and thus their effect.
This study also found that virginity pledges have the unintended effect of placing some teens at higher risk of unintended pregnancy and STDs, because teens who break the pledge are one-third less likely than nonpledgers to use contraceptives once they do become sexually active."
There were quite a few other studies that said the same thing or similar, but this was the first thorough study I found.
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