The Abstinence Clearinghouse Blog

The Committee held a hearing titled, “Domestic Abstinence-Only Programs: Assessing the Evidence” on Wednesday, April 23, 2008, in 2154 Rayburn House Office Building.  Federally-funded abstinence-only programs require the exclusive teaching of abstinence until marriage and prohibit teaching about condoms or other contraceptives — other than to discuss failure rates. These programs have received over $1.3 billion […]

Once upon a time men and women dated as a prelude to marriage which was a prelude to sex.  Today, teens are “hooking-up.”  As one teen explains, “First you give a guy oral sex and then you decide if you like him.”  What a tragedy for our society.  There are more than two-dozen sexually transmitted […]

According to an article in the Argus Leader on Sunday, November 18, 2007, some children are dying tragic deaths because of broken homes.  The article, “Broken homes raise abuse risk: Scholars: Traditional families best,” states that each year the alleged perpetrator of children dying has been the boyfriend of the child’s mother, not the biological […]

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For many sexually-active young people, the fear of becoming pregnant or getting HIV/AIDS is a major emotional stress.
Russell Henke, health education coordinator in the Montgomery County (Maryland) Public Schools, says, “I see kids going to the nurses in schools, crying a day after their first sexual experience, and wanting to be tested for AIDS. They […]

Pornography is like a toxic gas. Those doing the polluting aren’t necessarily the ones who are harmed by the pollution. Once the gas is released into the atmosphere, it is impossible to recapture and contain it. The pollution or pornography harms children, and we must work to protect our children from exposure in the online […]

I hear this one a lot and I usually respond by trying to education the speaker. Every piece of legislation here in the United States is based on some type of moral (often Judeo-Christian) conviction. For example, laws against murder and theft can be easily traced to the Ten Commandments (”Thou shall not kill,” and […]

Fact: Sexual activity at an early age has multiple harmful consequences.
The earlier a teenage girl begins sexual activity the more likely she is to suffer from increased rates of infection with sexually transmitted diseases, increased rates of out-of-wedlock pregnancy and birth, increased rates of single parenthood, decreased marital stability, increased maternal and child poverty, increased […]

Throughout history, people have suggested that the legalization of contraband (such as alcohol and drugs) and certain activities (such as prostitution) will allow the demand for these substances and activities. On the contrary, experience tells us that this just isn’t true. When the use of pornography is allowed to proliferate, the following tends to occur:
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A great deal of evidence suggests that repeated exposure to pornography leads to the probability of acting out sexually rather than reducing dangerous impulses. Even when addiction to pornography does not lead to the commitment of serious sex crimes, it cannot be considered a harmless outlet for dangerous impulses. The viewing of pornography often creates […]