Another nail in the coffin for abstinence-only education is a recent study in the Journal of Adolescent Health that found that while comprehensive sex education significantly reduced the number of teen pregnancies, and seems to have slightly reduced the number of teens engaging in sexual intercourse, abstinence-only education did neither. Unfortunately, neither form of sex education reduced the number of STDs reported by adolescents, so there's still more work to do, but that may be due less to ineffectual education and more to do with a lack of testing to show the full scope of the STD problem. will this study finally convince the stalwart right-wingers that they've got nothing to lose by at least giving teenagers good information? Probably not, but a sex educator can dream.

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