The Abstinence Clearinghouse Blog

Now, it is true that the Guidelines also promotes teaching 12 to 15 year olds, during lessons on sexual fantasy, “people do not need to act on their sexual fantasy.” But, in an age where contraception promoters routinely claim that teens and adults lack the self-control to abstain from sexual activity, is it really [...]

Why is it that abstinence is portrayed as the most challenging, agonizing decision a person could ever make? It frustrates me how when a kid hits 13, she gets a packet of sex-education materials thrust in her face along with a couple of “safe-sex” videos. Society threw up its hands in surrender a long time [...]

I’m thinking maybe PBS should change its name to Professional Bias System. Between Postcards from Buster and The Education of Shelby Knox, PBS is certainly pushing something and it isn’t compassionate conservatism.
As a mom of 3 who grew up on Sesame Street and Mister Roger’s Neighborhood, I loved PBS. But lately, [...]

Unless the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) withholds its approval, the porn industry will have its own domain on the World Wide Web, .xxx. Proponents of the domain say that Web sites such as Hardcore porn.xxx, Rape Porn.xxx, or XXXporn.xxx will make it easier for parents and software filtering companies to protect kids from adult [...]

Rise in Japan teen sex ignites education debate
Last Updated: 2005-06-16 11:11:25 -0400 (Reuters Health)
By Elaine Lies
TOKYO (Reuters) - Sixteen-year-old Monami Okubo sees nothing wrong with
sex before marriage.
“I really don’t think there’s any reason to wait,” said the bespectacled
first-year high school teen, wearing her school uniform as she chatted
with friends in Tokyo’s trendy Shibuya district. “It’s [...]

Russian health officials debunk “safe-sex” myth and promote abstinence in Moscow
Rome, Jun. 09, 2005 (CNA) - In an about-face, health officials in Moscow have acknowledged that “safe-sex does not exist” and are opting for abstinence-based education for young people.
“One should propagandize total abstinence before marriage,” Ludmila Stebenkova of Moscow’s parliamentary committee for health care [...]

Some people worship bacteria because it’s the only culture they have.
One thing that I’ve learned: a person can have all the money, power and sex they can muster, but in the end it’s all emptiness. It’s like the chaf that blows in the wind. It is meaningless because it doesn’t [...]

Five years ago the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention outlined a plan to cut the number of HIV cases in half by 2005. Five years later the number of Americans living with HIV has jumped to a tragic milestone—more than one million Americans are infected with HIV– and the number of annual [...]

People who are so depressed that they must take illegal drugs at a party otherwise, “you’re not going to enjoy it as much,” (USA Today, 6/20/02) have serious problems. In the past, HIV/AIDS prevention leaders could/would not identify the destructive behavior of drug use as stemming from sexual choices.
Everyone wants true intimacy, [...]

Success in Encouraging Teen Abstinence
by Melissa Pardue, The Heritage Foundation
June 10, 2005
Experienced parents will tell you that if you can get your kids through the teen years, they likely will be just fine as adults. That’s because teens face many of the temptations adults do but without the experience to appreciate the consequences of their [...]