The Abstinence Clearinghouse Blog

This is a good article by Rebecca Hagelin:
Daughters Under Siege
Rebecca Hagelin
Tuesday, September 01, 2009

Recently I wrote about the trend in public schools to push an “if it feels
good, do it” brand of sex education on our kids. Those who write the “health
education” curriculum, oversee the lesson plans and have the greatest
authority in education believe that [...]

I’ve been told that if I’d been a parent in the 1950s, I probably would have spoken out against Elvis Presley’s pelvic thrust as a dance move. The theory is that teens of every generation will find their own ways to rebel against the cultural norm, and that parents from one generation to the next [...]

I just read a report from CWA that this year alone, 15.3 MILLION Americans will contract a NEW sexually transmitted disease.  2-4 MILLION of those will be teenagers!  That means that every day, 8,000 teens contract a NEW STD.  Not to mention any they already had. 
Hello?!?!  And what do our states, governments and health centers [...]

Well, duh.  After 15 years of providing abstinence education, 26 states have turned back Title V funds used to teach abstinence until marriage education.  Is it any wonder why the teen birth rate is up?  The kids today are learning that it’s okay to have sex, as long as you are protected.  True protection means [...]

The safety and effectiveness of the HPV vaccine Gardasil as a preventive cervical cancer treatment for girls are questioned in a report.
By Linda Marsa, Special to The Times
August 11, 2008
For the rest of the article, follow the link:
http://www.latimes.com/features/health/newsletter/la-he-gardasil11-2008aug11,0,2635375,full.story

The LA Tmes recently reported that concerns are still growing about the Gardasil vaccine, the supposed “first ever cancer vaccination.”  While reading this story, I came across this quote.  “The crux of it is that we know how to prevent cervical cancer,” Dr. Karen Smith-McCune says.  She then goes on to say that it’s with [...]

I just finished reading Wendy Shalit’s “Girls Gone Mild” and while it took me almost a month and a half, only getting to read a chapter every couple of days, the impact of this book was in no way lessened. This book made me think. In fact, a chapter at a time was really all that I [...]

A recent review of over 100 contraceptive sex education programs found only two that increased consistent condom use by teens for a period of 12 months.  And rates of condom user error are high, even with adult populations.: error rates ranged from 21.7% to 50% across 4 studies.  Also, condoms do not prevent any of [...]

A new, probably fraudulent, study showed that twins who had sex earlier had lower levels of delinquency and antisocial behavior a few years later, not more.  The article mentions that policymakers and psychologists hold that early sex, say at 14, makes a teenager more likely to have academic problems, commit crimes, drink, smoke and suffer [...]

Once upon a time men and women dated as a prelude to marriage which was a prelude to sex.  Today, teens are “hooking-up.”  As one teen explains, “First you give a guy oral sex and then you decide if you like him.”  What a tragedy for our society.  There are more than two-dozen sexually transmitted [...]