Notes from the research.A study by Hannah Bruckner of Yale University Yale University, at New Haven, Conn.; coeducational. Chartered as a collegiate school for men in 1701 largely as a result of the efforts of James Pierpont, it opened at Killingworth (now Clinton) in 1702, moved (1707) to Saybrook (now Old Saybrook), and in 1716 was and Peter Bearman Peter Shawn Bearman, an American Sociologist, is Jonathan Cole Professor of the Social Sciences in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University and Director of the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP). He received his Ph. of Columbia University Columbia University, mainly in New York City; founded 1754 as King's College by grant of King George II; first college in New York City, fifth oldest in the United States; one of the eight Ivy League institutions. [released in the March 18, 2005 issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health] shows that young people who took "virginity pledges," public promises to remain virgins until marriage, are nonetheless at risk of engaging in unsafe sexual practices. The research found that "pledgers" have the same rate of sexually transmitted diseases Sexually transmitted diseases Infections that are acquired and transmitted by sexual contact. Although virtually any infection may be transmitted during intimate contact, the term sexually transmitted disease is restricted to conditions that are largely (STDs) as their peers who had not pledged. Not only were pledgers less likely to use condoms to prevent STDs, they were less likely to seek medical testing and treatment, increasing possibility of transmission. Furthermore, researchers concluded that some pledgers engaged in alternative sexual behaviors in order to preserve their virginity. Among those young people who had not had vaginal intercourse, pledgers are more likely to have engaged in both oral and anal sex than their non-pledging peers. |
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