{"id":1338,"date":"2004-03-13T01:01:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-13T01:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1338"},"modified":"2004-03-13T01:01:00","modified_gmt":"2004-03-13T01:01:00","slug":"aphrodite-bats-last-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1338","title":{"rendered":"Aphrodite Bats Last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <em>New York Times<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnewsblog.com\/print.php?p=6412\">report<\/a> by a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iserp.columbia.edu\/people\/faculty_fellows\/faculty\/bearman.html\">Columbia University sociologist<\/a> on the virginity pledges promoted by some Christian groups such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifeway.com\/tlw\/\">True Love Waits<\/a> finds that pledge-takers do delay the onset of sexual activity, yet tend to contract sexually transmitted diseases at about the same rate as their peers, suggesting that they do not get additional education on STDs.<\/p>\n<p>Key paragraphs:<\/p>\n<p><em>By age 23, half the teenagers who had made virginity pledges were married, compared with 25 percent of those who had not pledged, the study found. Dr. Bearman said he did not know whether the teenagers who had broken their pledges did so initially with their fianc?s or with others, because the data had not yet been analyzed.<\/p>\n<p>But he said, &#8220;After they break their pledge, the gates are open, and they catch up,&#8221; having more partners in a shorter time.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Link courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnewsblog.com\">Religion News Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New York Times report by a Columbia University sociologist on the virginity pledges promoted by some Christian groups such as True Love Waits finds that pledge-takers do delay the onset of sexual activity, yet tend to contract sexually transmitted diseases at about the same rate as their peers, suggesting that they do not get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27,24,26],"class_list":["post-1338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-aphrodite","tag-christianity","tag-culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-lA","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":141,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=141","url_meta":{"origin":1338,"position":0},"title":"Aphrodite Bats Last","author":"Chas S. 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