WASHINGTON – Making a virginity pledge may help some young people postpone the start of sexual activity, according to a new RAND Corporation study. Researchers found that adolescents who made pledges ...

Many abstinence programs have embraced the concept of virginity pledges, encouraging children as young as 9 to promise to wait until marriage to have sex. So how reliable are reports of sexual ...

Please insert your caption here. Source: 123RF.com/Sergejus Bertasius In the United States today, 37 states mandate that information on abstinence be provided in sex ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Teenagers who officially pledge to save sex for marriage may be no more likely than their peers to do so -- but they may be less likely to take precautions during sex, a ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Teens who pledge to remain virgins until marriage are more likely to take chances with other kinds of sex that increase the risk of sexually transmitted diseases, a study of 12,000 ...

The debate over sex education has long been a heated one. A new study released Dec. 29 found that a popular method of promoting abstinence — pledging to remain a virgin — doesn’t appear to be the ...

While the fact that virginity pledges and abstinence-only sex “ed” don’t stop teens from having sex is unsurprising, I doubt that even proponents are particularly surprised. They aren’t interested in ...