by APFLI | Feb 14, 2004 | Studies - Abstinence / Pornography / Sex Outside Marriage Research
The financial balance sheet between abstinence and safe-sex programs within the US shows that the government spends “$12 to promote contraception for every dollar spent to encourage abstinence.” [Culture & Cosmos: Volume 1, Number 24,...
by APFLI | Feb 14, 2004 | Reasons for Abstinence
The proportion of 15- 19-year-old girls who are sexually active rose from 47% in 1982 to 55% in 1990, and is decreasing again. The percentage of high school students who have remained virgins has risen from 45.6% in 1990 to 54.1% in 2001. Fifty-six percent of teenage...
by APFLI | Aug 27, 2003 | Reasons for Abstinence
What is YOUR sex-image? –> Sex for sale, where the prostitute sells his or her body for another's sexual pleasure? –> Sex for kicks, where the playboy or playgirl uses his or her body for sexual pleasure? –>...
by APFLI | Jun 1, 2003 | Studies - Abstinence / Pornography / Sex Outside Marriage Research
Sexually active teens are more prone to be depressed/suicidal than teens who are chaste. Early sexual experimentation has been “a substantial factor in undermining the emotional well-being of American teenagers”. Data taken from a national survey of 6,500...
by APFLI | May 20, 2003 | Studies - Abstinence / Pornography / Sex Outside Marriage Research
“Almost one in five U.S. teens has sexual intercourse by their 15th birthday.” Its review of available data revealed that 4% of 12-year-olds have had sex, 10% of 13-year-olds, and 19% of 14-year-olds. The figures do not include instances of oral sex, which...
