Hang on, if the rate of condom use was lower among the pledged....shouldn't the pregnancy/STD rate have been HIGHER among them. The study says it was AS high.

Hmmm, I suppose if they were having less sex, but more of the sex they were having was unprotected...then the rates might be even. That's possible. So it worked with some, but when it didn't...it really went wrong.

Here's an odd question. I know (from aonther thread current at the moment) that a lot of us did wait until we were out of adolescence (well....at least out of our teenage years) before having sex. Why did we? I knew somehow that I wasn't ready yet...but I'm not sure how I knew. And I don't know how to pass than insite on to the next generation. Absolute pledges obviously aren't the answer.