Thread: Abstinence on the Rise

A sweeping survey of Americans' sexual behavior

4 minute discussion here starting at 6:30:
Morning Joe

This seemed rather counterintuitive considering the rise of pornography and growth of overall promiscuity over time.

Thoughts?

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Abstinence on the Rise

yup that's what she said !!

When first run, the survey queried only married and formerly married women. Single women and then men were later included, as were more detailed questions about sexual practices.

Parts of the survey are now so explicit that even though the interviewer and subject are face to face, some questions are asked and answered using a computer screen so that the answers are completely private.

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We are overloaded on sexual imagery and sexual humor and watching other people have sex.

It makes people feel ugly and impotent and inferior.

So the society is stepping back and re-evaluating.

Not quite ....

Rise in teenage pregnancy rate spurs new debate on arresting it


The pregnancy rate among teenage girls in the United States has jumped for the first time in more than a decade, raising alarm that the long campaign to reduce motherhood among adolescents is faltering, according to a report released Tuesday.
The pregnancy rate among 15-to-19-year-olds increased 3 percent between 2005 and 2006 -- the first jump since 1990, according to an analysis of the most recent data collected by the federal government and the nation's leading reproductive-health think tank.
Teen pregnancy has long been one of the most pressing social issues and has triggered intense political debate over sex education, particularly whether the federal government should fund programs that encourage abstinence until marriage or focus on birth control.
"The decline in teen pregnancy has stopped -- and in fact has turned around," said Lawrence Finer, director of domestic research for the Guttmacher Institute, the nonprofit, nonpartisan research group in New York that conducted the analysis. "These data are certainly cause for concern."
The abortion rate also inched up for the first time in more than a decade -- rising 1 percent -- intensifying concern across the ideological spectrum.
"One of the nation's shining success stories of the past two decades is in danger of unraveling," said Sarah Brown of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. "Clearly, the nation's collective efforts to convince teens to postpone childbearing must be more creative and more intense, and they must begin today."
The cause of the increase is the subject of debate. Several experts blamed the increase in teen pregnancies on sex-education programs that focus on encouraging abstinence. Others said the reversal could be due to a variety of factors, including an increase in poverty, an influx of Hispanics and complacency about AIDS, prompting lax use of birth control such as condoms.

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Rise in teenage pregnancy rate spurs new debate on arresting it - washingtonpost.com

Same story in the UK:


Teen pregnancy rates rises

http://www.shieldsgazette.com/news/h...ises_1_3118014

Originally Posted by Daktoria

A sweeping survey of Americans' sexual behavior

4 minute discussion here starting at 6:30:
Morning Joe

This seemed rather counterintuitive considering the rise of pornography and growth of overall promiscuity over time.

Thoughts?

Today I learned that teenagers always tell the truth when a quasi religious group asks them questions about sex.

Originally Posted by Inkslinger

They must be polling married people.

yup, older married people who have children