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...chastity were less likely to use condoms than other teens, contracted sexually transmitted diseases just as often and were less likely to know they were infected. It's difficult for teens to learn safe sex while saying they're not going to have sex, says study co-author Peter Bearman...
...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...
...Memphis law firm of Baker Donelson Bearman & Caldwell has paid Alexander $295,000 over the past year, even while he has been campaigning full time. He has filed no hourly billings, but instead is paid for "strategic advice" to three large clients. A former partner of the firm, describing the arrangement to the Wall Street Journal, said, "I think it's clearly an investment in case he becomes President...
...ensure greater security by forming escort service for those concerned about the homeless men, or by agreeing to walk in pairs to the dining hall for meals. Our responsibility to ourselves means that we must have responsibility for others. There is still time to act responsibly. Peter S. Bearman Lecturer on Social Studies Leverett House Non-Resident Tutor