More Joke Reporting: Abstinence Education Works?

Yet another example of newspapers selectively reporting according to whomever’s bias: The Washington Post writes that abstinence-only programs may actually deter teens from having sex. If you don’t talk about it, it won’t happen! Also, 0.1% of climate scientists think global climate change could be a coincidence, so buy a new Hummer!

Only about a third of sixth- and seventh-graders who completed an abstinence-focused program started having sex within the next two years, researchers found.

THIS IS A JOKE. I wasn’t having sex in eighth or ninth grade either, for the record. I think that if an abstinence-focused program is to be instituted, it absolutely must be combined with safety education, such as condom use. Are those two things mutually exclusive?

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