MedPol: Texas teens increase sex after abstinence programs

The study showed about 23 percent of ninth-grade girls, typically 13 to 14 years old, had sex before receiving abstinence education. After taking the course, 29 percent of the girls in the same group said they had had sex.

Boys in the tenth grade, about 14 to 15 years old, showed a more marked increase, from 24 percent to 39 percent, after receiving abstinence education.

The federal government is spending 130 milion dollars this year on abstinence programs that don't work. Maybe someday this administration will be more concerned about the health of our younger citizens and less concerned with adherence to willfully-ignorant ideology.

My favorite line from the article:

One program technique has been to try to bolster students' self-esteem, based on the theory that self-confident teenagers would not have sex.

What planet are these people from? Aren't the confident kids with decent self-esteem the ones that DO get play in high school?

Let's face it, kids. Sex is cool. Sex is fun. These things aren't going to change. People don't have sex just because they have low self-esteem or just because they feel pressured into it. They also have sex because they want to have sex.

Sex is, of course, dangerous when procured wrecklessly and without proper precautions. We can modify danger. We can't modify the drive to screw around. Let's stick to what we can actually improve!