NO! Not possible!
In a news flash that will surely make waves throughout these prudish lands, a Harvard University author states that teenagers who take virginity pledges--a promise to remain chaste until marriage--are, 1.) more likely to lie about said pledge if they do get active before marriage, and 2.) more likely to deny any past sexual history when taking the pledge. These blatant (!!!) lies must mean that the virginity pledgers' survey results are unreliable when gauging the viability of abstinence-based sexual education programs.
How, how, how is this possible?? I thought ALL teenagers were upfront and honest about their sexual histories! And especially when asked about them at school and in an abstinence-promoting environment! It is simply mind-blowing that they would lie about such a thing!
Anyway, research shows that the survey respondents tend to answer questions about sexual history based on their current beliefs, not necessarily what they've really done. (You know, if it's too small to feel, it didn't really happen.) Respondents also may have under- or over-reported their health risk behavior.
All this research was done by Janet Rosenbaum, who evaluated retractions of virginity pledges and reports of sexual histories among a nationally representative sample of seventh- through 12th-grade students who participated in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health.
"Teenagers do not report their past sexual activity accurately, with virginity pledgers giving more inaccurate reports of their past sexual activity," she was quoted as saying. Rosenbaum's amazing findings were reported in the American Journal of Public Health.
Read this SHOCKING article about how teens lie about sex here.
2 comments:
Teenagers don't lie do they?
Another dumb servey !
I did not have sex with that woman !
Yah..and those same teenagers are more likely to claim a "Clinton" regarding acts that most of us would classify as sex...but because it isn't "traditional" doesn't qualify...its so great that instead of talking about it, we just make them take pledges. AWESOME.
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