If there was actually any success at any time of our history in restraining our youth... I would like to hear about it. Contrary to popular opinion, the Mediaeval Ages were in many ways, even more promiscuous than our times. The difference is, they were in denial about it, or more accurately, they accepted it, but kept an official silence about it.

I say, advocate abstinence and frighten the kids with tales of pregnancies and STIs. But at the same time teach safe-sex methods. Call it a contradiction, a hypocrisy, but if a child has to choose between having sex or not, I doubt he/she will consider his/her sex education as a factor. The child will not be influenced by his/her sex ed., as such things do not get into the way of sex.

When have you heard or read about a teenager who was about to have sex and then thought "Oh, I have not received sex education - I am not having sex because of this!" Never, that is the answer. Sex education will not make the teens any more licentious or confident in their despite to engage in coitus. There is pornography for that.

Now I am interested to hear a rebuttal. Forget statistics for now, as they are overtly contradictory in this case, although the latest and most accurate ones do generally show the lack of effectiveness of abstinence-only education. Let us simply use logic and models of common behaviour here.