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Here's an interesting definition implied by a CNN story on pledging virginity:
"Among virgins, boys who have pledged abstinence were four times more likely to have had anal sex than teens who have remained abstinent but not as part of a pledge, according to the study. Overall, pledgers were six times more likely to have oral sex."
"Among virgins, boys who have pledged abstinence were four times more likely to have had anal sex than teens who have remained abstinent but not as part of a pledge, according to the study. Overall, pledgers were six times more likely to have oral sex."
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"Leslee Unruh, president of the National Abstinence Clearinghouse in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, called the study "bogus," disputing that those involved had pledged true "abstinence.""
No you dumb arse, they pledge true abstinence but gave in. But since they were feeling guilty about having sex since they had pledged they looked around for a loophole to help ignore the guilt.
This is one of those things that just leaves me bewildered. Here's hoping that is one social trend that does not make it across the water.
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Trust me when I say that she is not someone you really want to have a conversation with about virginity.
And oh, but they've been *trying* to export the v-pledge shite to the Brits. It hasn't taken. But there was, last summer particularly, a huge drive to get the abstinence-pledge movement rolling in the UK via a series of what are known as "Silver Ring Things." Go Google or check the BBC news website if you're curious; if not, just rest assured that so far it hasn't made much of a dent. :)
Not that it has actually made all that big a dent here, demographically speaking. But that's another story for another time.
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Sign me up!!
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Bizarre.
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It is however quite true that one of the problems that continually plagues the whole "abstinence" movement is that they never -- apparently for fear of saying too much by doing so -- articulate precisely what the dimensions of "abstinence" are supposed to be and the entirety of what it is supposed to entail... leads to all sorts of interesting casuistry & weirdness, as you point out.
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... did anybody think to ask these boys exactly who they were having anal sex with? I suppose we can assume they're talking about girls here, but it seems just possible to me that these abstinence pledge people might be in a great deal more trouble than they can possibly imagine.
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