Speaking of Sex Education. I learned about sex in High school.  Not from any class but from those pocket cartoon books that depicted sex in the most imaginative and exaggerated way possible. They left the Kama Sutra in the dust, showing what seeemed to be endless positions. I wonder if those religious cartoon books by Chick got inspiration from Popeye and Olive embracing in the books I saw. Ah, life is a tangled web indeed.

Zilch
Problem with Anglos
IMO the reason for a return to fundementalist Christian views in this country is a reaction to the “Muslim menace in our midst”
The Media ramp up this fear and it is creating a mood that is allowing T Blair and his reptile friends to pass very authoritarian anti terror laws that bypass the judiciary.
People are walking on eggshells when it comes to any criticism of muslims to such a degree that Parking attendents are instructed not to ticket illegally parked cars outside mosques.
Common sense is going out of the window to accomadate our muslim friends in the schools too
As a result the Christians are getting more militant and it’s only a matter of time before creationism and Christian sexual mores are pushed onto the education agenda.
regards

I found the frog story interesting
You might like to google necrophilic mallards.
If thats not bad enough they apparently gang rape one another.

Honestly, I wouldn’t mind seeing some comparative studies as well and I would think there’s probably some out there. This isn’t the first study that says Abstinence Only programs don’t work as there’s been plenty of others over the years. I think part of the problem is that there’s so much variance in other programs due to worries of pissing off parents. I’ll see if I can dig up any info on comparative studies.

There are so many problems with sex education programs and the evaluation of these programs that it is difficult to know where to begin. In general, I’d say that most programs are fairly ineffective at reducing either teen sexual activity or teen pregnancy. (See the following article:  Interventions to reduce unintended pregnancies among adolescents: Systematic review of randomised controlled trials. By DiCenso, Alba; Guyatt, Gordon; Willan, A.; Griffith, L.BMJ: British Medical Journal. 324(7351), Jun 2002, 1426-1430).

I suspect that the difficulty lies in the goals set out by these progams—reduce teen sex activity? (HAH!); reduce teen pregnancy? (maybe possible . . but consider that about 1/3 teen pregnancies are at least semi-intentional; reduce STDs? (now we’re talking—this could be done.)

One more thing . . . the study listed above (back in 2002) also showed that abstinence programs make things somewhat worse. . . . It isn’t as though this information hasn’t been around for a long time.

I just remembered Nancy Reagan and her “Just say NOâ€? followers. The truth is that this approach just doesn’t work. 

For a discussion of this see: America’s “Just Say No” Addiction by Jeff Elliott.

http://www.monitor.net/monitor/12-3-95/drugmain.html

People try this approach on many seductive tidbits daily.  They try to say “NOâ€? to Alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, sex, milk shakes, freeloaders, leeches, Jehovah’s Witnesses, credit card companies, loan sharks, business counteroffers, the 4th cuppa coffee, pornography, telemarketers, chain letters, girl scout cookie sales, free advice, bumper stickers, military recruiters, George Bush, pills, caffeine, rocky road ice-cream, wolfsbane, smirkers and war mongers and countless other snares. The sad truth is that people prefer pleasure to pain, apple strudel to wheat crisp, that extra slice of pie, or to steal a kiss when you KNOW this leads to children and mortgages. If you think I have any viable solution, I should warn you that I am about 40 pounds overweight.  I NEVER say NO to that extra slice of pie.