Dr. Janice Rosenbaum of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health studied 934 young people from strong religious backgrounds as teenagers and then five years later. Of this group, 289 had taken pledges to remain virgins until marriage. The "pledgers" were no less sexually active than others in the study, but they were 10% less likely to use birth control or condoms.
The religious teens in this survey had fewer sexual partners, decreased risk for sexually transmitted diseases, and decreased rates of abortion and births than non-religious teens.
Labels: sex, abstinence, religion
Posted By: Aspen Education Group