The Abstinence Clearinghouse Blog

For many sexually-active young people, the fear of becoming pregnant or getting HIV/AIDS is a major emotional stress.
Russell Henke, health education coordinator in the Montgomery County (Maryland) Public Schools, says, “I see kids going to the nurses in schools, crying a day after their first sexual experience, and wanting to be tested for AIDS. They [...]

Pornography is like a toxic gas. Those doing the polluting aren’t necessarily the ones who are harmed by the pollution. Once the gas is released into the atmosphere, it is impossible to recapture and contain it. The pollution or pornography harms children, and we must work to protect our children from exposure in the online [...]

I hear this one a lot and I usually respond by trying to education the speaker. Every piece of legislation here in the United States is based on some type of moral (often Judeo-Christian) conviction. For example, laws against murder and theft can be easily traced to the Ten Commandments (”Thou shall not kill,” and [...]