Quoted in the article is study author Janet E. Rosenbaum, who used a different statistical method on previously used data, controverting ealier studies that found pledgers were more likely to delay having sex than non-pledgers.
"Virginity pledgers and similar non-pledgers don't differ in the rates of vaginal, oral or anal sex or any other sexual behavior," Rosenbaum said. "Strikingly, pledgers are less likely than similar non-pledgers to use condoms and also less likely to use any form of birth control."I'm assuming Tom Selleck-esque mustache rides fall under "other sexual behavior."
Interesting enough, but not really funny. Janet sounds like a textbook when she talks. We're talking about sex, here—and teenage sex, at that—and we can't throw in a little innuendo or tongue-in-cheek suggestion? Thank goodness the reporter also interviewed Bill Albert, the chief program officer for The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy—abbreviated N.O.C.H.A.N.C.E.?
Bill says "When pledgers fell off the wagon"—here it comes—"they fell off hard." Zing! I wonder, did he emphasize "hard" when he told it to the reporter? That is, "they fell off hard." And then snickered? I hope so.
I responded in a comment with my own story of virginity pledging:
In high school, I took the abstinence pledge, while holding my hand over my heart and saying the words under my breath, "with Liberty and Justice for all." With sleep still in my eyes, I thought I was saying the Pledge of Allegiance. Later that night, I had sex with the butter-face who was my lab partner, wrapping a flag around her head before proceeding onto the battefield. I'd like to say I did it for my country, but really, it was because she had a lazy eye.
Is that story true? Absolutely. Not. Her eye wasn't really lazy—it was made of glass.
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