BBC: “No-sex programmes ‘not working’”
Even though this should come as a surprise to absolutely no one, the BBC reports on a Oxford University team which examined 13 US abstinence-only trials involving more than 15,000 people. The conclusion?
Researchers found none of the abstinence-only programmes had an impact on the age at which individuals lost their virginity, whether they had unprotected sex, the number of sexual partners, the rates of sexually transmitted diseases or the number of pregnancies.
Yet, an entire third of the Federal government’s HIV protection budget goes to these programs.
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on Thursday, 9 August 2007 at 12:26 pm Robert Armistead wrote:
As long as the pols think they will get more votes by backing abstinence than any other program they will continue to fund it.
The prime directive for candidates is “Tell ‘em what the biggest voting block wants to hear.” regardless of logic or reality.
One honest pol once admitted that his main job was to keep it!