The Surge of Abstinence Education Will Succeed in a Friedman Unit

As we all know, abstinence-based sex education doesn't work to promote abstinence among the young people who receive it.

But wait...! Barbara Ehrenriech has spoken to abstinence-education advocate Joneen Mackenzie, executive director of WAIT (abbreviation for "Why Am I Tempted?"), and asked her about this:

There is, however, one shadow hanging over the abstinence training industry. A study commissioned by Congress revealed in April that abstinence training doesn't work: Students exposed to such training turn out to be no less likely to have sex than those who are not, leading some to question the over $100 million the Federal government spends on it annually. Mackenzie dismissed the study out of hand, saying it had been undertaken before serious abstinence training really got off the ground.

In other words, it's just like Iraq: We need to allow more time for the surge of abstinence-based education to work.

(via Avedon Carol)