For more information, visit washingtonpost.com:
link.email.washingtonpost.com/r/ … L3M3T/B7/t
Interesting.
You can find the full article there, for those who are interested.
Questionable at best, study statistics are based on “self-report”, which with teenagers, isn’t necessarily accurate.
Especially where validation comes into play. Or maybe it is accurate, and teenagers are starting to give up on sex …
Far more importantly, the curriculum they gave is very different from federally funded abstinence-only education. Felix was very slick with the thread title noting “can” as opposed to the less nuanced “is”. But most people are reading “is” and that is, errr, problematic.
Well, that is definitely true, how the information is presented can have an impact.
I’m just a militant cynic; especially where teenage curiosity and sexual activity come into play. Unless you give them a very healthy and morbid fear of disease, in a realistic framework, I just find it dubious to make statistical presumptions.
Hit google for searches on “teenagers+oral sex” and “teenagers+anal sex”. You might be frightened at how many youth are using sex education to find new “contraceptive” means. What’s even more startling is the fact that it is completely shattering demographics and socio-economic stratifications. Many of the old lies/myths are starting to fall down.