The Abstinence Clearinghouse Blog

3/17/10 By Roger Greer
www.citizenlink.org
Time Warner Cable showed Playboy Channel previews on kids’ channels in North Carolina on Tuesday.
Company officials apologized and called the incident an accident.
Gail Dines, professor of sociology and women studies at Wheelock College, said it’s a sign of the times.
“It just brings to mind the increasing ‘pornification’ of the culture,” she said. [...]

http://www.christianpost.com/article/20100302/atheist-group-trade-your-bibles-in-for-porn/index.html
Tue, Mar. 02 2010
By Ethan Cole
 
A campus atheist group began its attention-seeking holy book-for-porn program on Monday at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
For three days, members of Atheist Agenda will give students pornographic magazines in exchange for any religious texts as part of their annual “Smut for Smut” campaign. Leaders of the atheist [...]

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by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
February 9, 2010
Source: lifenews.com
New York, NY (LifeNews.com) – A recent Planned Parenthood report pushing sex and abortion for children is drawing more fire from pro-life advocates. Now, Catholic League president Bill Donohue is attacking the document because he says it rips Catholicism and promotes “sexual engineering” by “smearing religious conservatives, especially Catholics.”
The [...]

NAC Press Release 2/10/10
A new report by the International Planned Parenthood Federation is recommending that children as young as 10 years old receive mandatory graphic sex education, which includes teaching them the “pleasures of sex.”
 
The report, “Stand and Deliver” recommends - in fact, demands - that children as young as 10 should be seen as [...]

Article 2/2/10 from citizenlink.com
by Nima Reza, managing editor
Students who took part in the abstinence education class were less likely than their counterparts to engage in sexual activity.

Abstinence education is effective in reducing sexual activity among youth, according to a study published in the February 2010 Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine conducted by University of [...]

Article 2/2/10 from citizenlink.com
Pornography causes at least two major problems for boys: They’re more likely to have casual sex and are less likely to develop successful relationships as they grow older.
The report that made the findings, Harms of Pornography Exposure Among Children and Young People, was conducted in a dozen countries.
The study also found that [...]

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
February 2, 2010
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) – A national Christian doctors organization is applauding a new study showing how abstinence education is more effective than either comprehensive sexual education or teaching only about contraception. They say the results coincide with polling data showing parents favor teaching their children abstinence.
Dr. David Stevens, the head [...]

By Rob Stein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, February 2, 2010; A01
washingtonpost.com

 
Sex education classes that focus on encouraging children to remain abstinent can persuade a significant proportion to delay sexual activity, researchers reported Monday in a landmark study that could have major implications for U.S. efforts to protect young people against unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted [...]

“This takes away the main pillar of opposition to abstinence education,” said Robert Rector, a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation who wrote the criteria for federal funding of abstinence programs. “I’ve always known that abstinence programs have gotten a bad rap.”
Heritage Foundation: http://www.abstinence.net/library/index.php?entryid=4589
Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/01/AR2010020102628.html?referrer=emailarticle
Family Research Council Press Release: http://www.frc.org/pressrelease/frc-responds-to-new-study-showing-abstinence-education-is-most-effective