Did You Know?
95% of Americans had premarital sex


More than nine out of 10 Americans, men and women alike, have had premarital sex, according to a new study. The high rates extend even to women born in the 1940s, challenging perceptions that people were more "chaste in the past." That could be a good movie title, instead of Back To The Future, a remake could be called Chaste In The Past... Hopefuly Hollywood will be a bit smarter in choosing their leading lady. She would have to be in her early teens or from the Mick Mouse Club... Oh wait Britney admitted having premarital sex, never mind; there's always Nickolodian.

"This is reality-check research," said the study's author, Lawrence Finer. "Premarital sex is normal behavior for the vast majority of Americans, and has been for decades."

Finer is a research director at the Guttmacher Institute, a private New York-based think tank that studies sexual and reproductive issues and which disagrees with government-funded programs that rely primarily on abstinence-only teachings.So what they are saying is that teenagers are lying?! Shut Up!

"The data clearly show that the majority of older teens and adults have already had sex before marriage, which calls into question the federal government's funding of abstinence-only-until-marriage programs for 12- to 29-year-olds," Finer said.

Under the Bush administration, such programs have received hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding i.e TAX PAYER'S MONEY! I Don't want my hard earned money to go towards useless programs that don't work. Put my money toward Education in not getting pregnant, preventing sexually transmitted diseases and career education for those who are already parents.

The report continues by saying (and I love this part) "It would be more effective to provide young people with the skills and information they need to be safe once they become sexually active -- which nearly everyone eventually will." Lawrence Finer said.... No wonder this isn't a goverment sponsored research project... he''s intellgent, logical and in touch with reality.

The Other Side

Wade Horn, assistant secretary for children and families at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, defended the "abstinence-only" approach for teenagers. "One of its values is to help young people delay the onset of sexual activity," he said. "The longer one delays, the fewer lifetime sex partners they have, and the less the risk of contracting sexually transmitted disease."

He insisted there was no federal mission against premarital sex among adults. "Absolutely not," Horn said. "The Bush administration does not believe the government should be regulating or stigmatizing the behavior of adults."

CoUgH BULLSHIT! CoUgH

Horn said he found the high percentages of premarital sex cited in the study to be plausible...

However, Janice Crouse of Concerned Women for America, a conservative group which strongly supports abstinence-only education, said she was skeptical of the findings. "Any time I see numbers that high, I'm a little suspicious," she said. "The numbers are too pat."

“It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.”
Bill Watterson - American Author of the comic strip Calvin & Hobbes