NewsWhore
05-09-2006, 10:10 AM
Does signing a virginity pledge after you have had sex make you a virgin again?
It hardly seems likely. But how else to explain a new study in which teenagers who said they had had sex in one survey then signed a pledge and told a different story in a survey a year later?
The study, which appears in the June issue of The American Journal of Public Health, was based on surveys by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development involving more than 13,000 students in grades 7 to 12.
The students were questioned two times, a year apart.
The most delicate questions were given through headphones, and the students typed their answers into a computer.
Among the questions students were asked: "Have you taken a public or written pledge to remain a virgin until marriage?" They were also asked if they had had sexual intercourse.
In the first survey, about 13 percent of the students said they had taken a pledge of virginity. In the second survey, the study found, more than half of that group denied having taken one.
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It hardly seems likely. But how else to explain a new study in which teenagers who said they had had sex in one survey then signed a pledge and told a different story in a survey a year later?
The study, which appears in the June issue of The American Journal of Public Health, was based on surveys by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development involving more than 13,000 students in grades 7 to 12.
The students were questioned two times, a year apart.
The most delicate questions were given through headphones, and the students typed their answers into a computer.
Among the questions students were asked: "Have you taken a public or written pledge to remain a virgin until marriage?" They were also asked if they had had sexual intercourse.
In the first survey, about 13 percent of the students said they had taken a pledge of virginity. In the second survey, the study found, more than half of that group denied having taken one.
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Link To Original Article (http://feeds.feedburner.com/Sxxxyorg?m=1637)