The Abstinence Clearinghouse Blog

The D.C. Department of Health is greatly mistaken in its new campaign to make condoms cool. They are going so far as to give away a free i-Pad if kids become “Condom Ambassadors” and make their very own condoms-are-good videos. This $200,000 campaign only feeds into the lie that condoms are safe, premarital sex is [...]

Speaker Keith Deltano addresses the argument that says abstinence until marriage education is fear-based. He points out that giving youth the facts, however ugly they may be, is reality; facts are facts. Do we want to stop giving kids the truth because it may frighten them into avoiding dangerous choices? Of course not! Keith argues [...]

No doubt you have heard about the debate concerning the child-molestation/pro-pedophilia books available on Amazon. The book titles were so graphic and offensive that we won’t include links to the actual news stories. Certain groups have promoted boycotting Amazon until the books have been removed. (It now seems the company has removed some of the [...]

Why do we as a culture insist on viewing food consumption in moral terms while removing most sexual behavior from any ethical consideration at all? Columnist Brent Bozell jokes that, as California bans happy meals in some cities, Ronald McDonald has become a super-villain in a “child-fattening conspiracy.”
We all know the principles. Food should be [...]

Dr Liliana Trivelli, Abstinence Clearinghouse E-Update contributor, has written in to the Pediatrics Digest in regard to an article by Preeti Pathela and Julia A. Schillinger entitled Sexual Behaviors and Sexual Violence: Adolescents With Opposite-, Same-, or Both-Sex Partners.  Dr. Trivelli opposes the whole idea of the study, pointing out the fact that sex is [...]

Social networking sites like Facebook are a common place that predators go to find their victims because the internet offers anonymity and easy access to children. FOX News recently reported an “underworld” on Facebook, which violates Facebook’s policies, but still exists using abbreviations and code words to get past the filtering system. Surprisingly though as [...]

How disappointing and sad to see women degrade themselves in the name of fashion. The popular Glee stars are the latest to objectify themselves by posing suggestively while dressed in young school girl clothes. This article states that this type of photo sends the message that if a woman wants to be considered appealing; she [...]