A study released today finds that teenagers who take a virginity pledge are just as likely to have sex before marriage as teens who don't make said promise. Even more important is that among teens that have premarital sex, the percentage of teens who use protection is 10 points lower for teens who promised to remain abstinent. This may not be surprising because similar studies have come out before, but this one used the most rigorous standards to date. Hopefully two things come of this: 1.) Our government stops funding abstinence-only sex education programs because they don't work, and 2.) People stop having creepy "purity ceremonies," parties that look a lot like weddings except they serve sparkling apple juice instead of champagne and you get to dance with that old sweaty zealot you call your father instead of the man of your dreams.
