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[Guest Mole]

From AOL:

 

WASHINGTON (May 28) - Teenagers at high schools where condoms were available were no more likely to have sex than other teens, a study published Wednesday finds.

 

The study confirms earlier research on the programs developed in the 1990s to stem the spread of HIV and reduce teen pregnancy. It found that students in high schools with condom programs were more likely to use condoms, though students in other high schools were more likely to use other forms of birth control.

 

Some conservative groups have staunchly opposed such programs, saying they send the wrong message and in effect encourage and enable teens to have sex before marriage.

 

Researchers writing in the American Journal of Public Health, examined high schools in Massachusetts, where the state Department of Education encouraged schools to develop condom programs. In most cases, the condoms were available from the school nurse or from other personnel such as a gym teacher.

 

The study took a sample of all high schools, comparing students at nine schools that made condoms available with those at 50 schools that did not. The data came from a 1995 survey of students' sexual behavior.

 

They found students in schools with condom programs were slightly less likely to report having had sexual intercourse than those at other schools. Specifically, 49 percent of students at non-condom schools reported having ever had sex, compared with 42 percent of those at schools with condoms available.

 

``The concerns of the small minority of parents who oppose providing condoms or related instruction in schools were not substantiated,'' wrote lead author Susan M. Blake and her colleagues at George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services.

 

Among teens who were sexually active, more at schools where condoms were available said they used condoms the last time they had sex: 66 percent vs. 49 percent at non-condom schools. The students at non-condom schools were more likely to have used other birth control.

 

Overall, there was no difference in pregnancy rates among students.

 

The study also found that schools offering condoms were also more likely to teach students how to use them properly. Students at condom schools also were more likely to have received information about HIV and AIDS.

 

Curiously, though, the study found that students at schools with condom programs were no more likely than others to say that condoms were easily available, even though they were more likely to use them.

 

Researchers said it may not have been that making condoms available prompted teens to use them, but that communities that were likely to adopt the programs were also more likely to support condom use to begin with.

 

The study did not compare teenage sexual behavior before and after condom programs were instituted, researchers note, so the study does not prove that the program changed anyone's behavior.

 

The data on teen sexual behavior came from the 1995 Massachusetts Youth Risk Behavior Survey. It included interviews with 4,166 students. About one in five of them were enrolled in a school with a condom availability program.

 

Well, all I can say is that teenagers will fuck no matter what, condoms or not.

[Guest MrRant]

I notice you get all your news from AOL.

[Guest cartman]

Yep, AOL, the world leader in causes of illegal sex in the world. Why don't they do a study on how many Men use AOL to meet teenage sluts and have sex with them? I would LOVE to see the results of that research. Gotta love that AOL.

[Guest J*ingus]

Hell, in my experience, most of the people I know who fuck before their 18th tend to not use birth control at all, even if it's available, out of sheer ignorance and/or stupidity.

[Guest cartman]

Exactly

[Guest Bruiser Chong]

Hell, in my experience, most of the people I know who fuck before their 18th tend to not use birth control at all, even if it's available, out of sheer ignorance and/or stupidity.

Indeed, this is true. For instance, I know a guy who has banged prolly every hot chick in the area (I'm not exaggerating, either) and he absolutely refuses to use anything. That said, he's already got a kid, but he's still out there fucking different girls and still refusing to use anything. The kid's gotta have SOMETHING by now and I just don't get why some girls wouldn't be sensible enough to just refuse to go along with it since this is pretty common knowledge among them (referring to his sex life).

 

Then there's my one friend's cousin who's 17 and a huge ho (she's been with 17 guys or so) and was one of the girls to get fucked by the aforementioned guys (interestingly enough, he almost got her pregnant, after shooting the moneyshot a little too close to the snatch). Anyway, he was telling me how she's told him that she has several cuts in that area and puss on occassion. It's beyond me how she and other girls can live such lives, but hey, they know what they're doing right?

[Guest Blacklight Angel]

But hey, they know what they're doing right?

 

Yes, of course they do: slowly but surely thinning out the herd.

 

With any luck, the lifeguard will order them out of the gene pool soon.

[Guest Flyboy]

Hell, in my experience, most of the people I know who fuck before their 18th tend to not use birth control at all, even if it's available, out of sheer ignorance and/or stupidity.

Don't get me started.

 

I should know from personal experience.

[LaParkaYourCar 0]

Study or no study. You give kids a way out of dealing with the consequences, whether it's fool proof or not, you better believe they'll take it.

[Rob E Dangerously 0]

Condom's don't Increase Teen Sex

 

I increase teen sex.

 

[Guest My Eyebrow is on fire]

Yep, AOL, the world leader in causes of illegal sex in the world. Why don't they do a study on how many Men use AOL to meet teenage sluts and have sex with them? I would LOVE to see the results of that research. Gotta love that AOL.

I didn't know she was 8.

[Guest JMA]

I might listen more to the conservative side on this issue if they weren't pushing the "Abstinence Only" BS. Sigh. Until the Right stops incorporating blatant religious propoganda into what they say I'll have to side with the Left on this one. They need a secular reason if they want to succeed. I'm not even that high on marriage itself. And how do they expect homosexuals in some states to practice adstinence until marriage when it is illegal for them to marry?

 

Simple: they don't like homosexuals because they are pushing a conservative Christian agenda. I, personally, don't have a problem with teens having intercourse (provided they use protection).