Another Study Shows Abstinence Education Doesn't Work

The Texas Department of State Health Services asked some nice researcher people at Texas A&M to do a study on how good abstinence education programs work. And here's what they found:

Despite taking courses emphasizing abstinence-only themes, teenagers in 29 high schools became increasingly sexually active, mirroring the overall state trends, according to the study conducted by researchers at Texas A&M University.

"We didn't see any strong indications that these programs were having an impact in the direction desired," said Dr. Buzz Pruitt, who directed the study.

And the government is expected to spend $130 million on this stuff in 2005. What a silly waste of money. You'd think, if the government was smart, that they would spend $130 million on a program that works, instead of just throwing it away on a program that doesn't work.

I think if they really want to stop teenagers from having sex, they need to change the kind of hormones in food or give them some kind of drugs or something, because teenagers are born to want to have sex, and there's nothing the government can do about it. So instead of trying to teach them not to have sex or pretend that they aren't having sex, we should teach them how to do it responsibly.