Now I hate to be a skeptic, here, but if I were an adolescent and my parents
were deeply religious I would sign virginity pledge in a second so that they
would "trust" be to be alone with a girl. I remember the times I told my
parents about going to BYF (Baptist Youth Fellowship) and somehow forgetting
to make the meeting. I would also remember, on followup, to report a late
age of first intercourse.
Besides all which, do we really want people to delay intercourse until
marriage. In my dotage, I can recall that many of us married specifically
for intercourse and little else. Some of us made very bad mistakes as a
result.
Harry Avis Ph.D.
Sierra College
Rocklin, CA 95677
Life is opinion - Plato
There is nothing that is good or bad, but that thinking makes it so -
Shakespeare
>From: Paul Brandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: RE: Gallup/creationism
>Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 12:59:16 -0600
>
>At 12:14 PM -0600 2/27/01, Paul Smith wrote:
> >Paul Brandon wrote:
> >> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> >> >two and a half million adolescents have taken public
> >> >"virginity" pledges, in which they promise to abstain from
> >> >sex until marriage. This paper explores the effect of
> >> >virginity pledges on the transition to first intercourse. On
> >> >one hand, we show that adolescents who pledge, controlling
> >> >for all of the usual characteristics of adolescents
> >> >and their social contexts that are associated with the
> >> >transition to sex, are much less likely than adolescents who
> >> >do not pledge, to have intercourse. The delay effect is
> >> >substantial and almost impossible to erase.
> >
> > Gee, I would have thought that the _last_ claim would have been the
> >one that raised some eyebrows. Exactly how would the researchers have
>gone
> >about determining that the adolescents' delay of intercourse is "almost
> >impossible to erase"? <grin>
>
>If you want word games, pencils (common root with penis) have rubbers on
>their TIPS.
>
>
>* PAUL K. BRANDON [EMAIL PROTECTED] *
>* Psychology Dept Minnesota State University, Mankato *
>* 23 Armstrong Hall, Mankato, MN 56001 ph 507-389-6217 *
>* http://www.mankato.msus.edu/dept/psych/welcome.html *
>
>
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