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Premarital Abstinence Pledges Ineffective, Study Finds

Teenagers who pledge to remain virgins until marriage are just as likely to have premarital sex as those who do not promise abstinence and are significantly less likely to use condoms and other forms of birth control when they do, according to a study released today.

"Hey, I know, we'll just tell kids to quit having sex! Yeah, that'll work! We are so SMRT."

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The study also found that, five years after taking a virginity pledge, more than 80 percent of pledgers denied ever making such a promise.

Abstinence education evidently interferes with long-term memory formation. Fascinating.