Word: bearman
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...abstinence proponents like to take credit for the recent decline in teen pregnancy rates, there's nothing to say that chastity - rather than broader use of condoms - is responsible. They are also quick to trot out one part of a study of virginity pledges published last year by Peter Bearman of Columbia University and Hannah Brueckner, now of Yale University, that found students who took pledges delayed their first sexual encounter by an average of 18 months. Pro-abstinence folks conveniently neglect the portion of the study that followed the same students through their early sexual activities and found they...
...Still unknown are the long term effects of pledges - whether, as proponents insist, they will lead to happier, healthier marriages. Bearman is currently at work on a follow-up tracking the same students into their twenties. But judging by an informal survey, some pledgers may have a rough road ahead. Been, for one, whose website lists his favorite hobby as dating and favorite comfort item as his waterbed, has run into romantic troubles of late. "Survivor kind of killed my dating life," he says. Perhaps it was all that talk of abstaining...