MobBoss
Off-Topic Overlord
I think it should probably be noted that those who sign pledges to be abstinent until marriage are statistically much more likely to have premarital sex than those who refuse to sign the pledges.
I believe the same has been found true of pledges not to drink alcohol or do drugs.
Psychological studies have found that in general declaring one's goals publicly (at least to those who approve of them) gives a sense of accomplishment without any actual accomplishment. It makes us think we are doing better than we are, and thus we don't try as much. Those who keep their goals private tend to think of them as more difficult, underrate how well they are doing, and are much more likely to fulfill them.
Some think that such pledges bring the forbidden topics to mind more, like when you tell someone not to think of a pink elephant.
Some note that parents may try harder to force the kids whom they fear are most likely to have sex or use drugs to sign such pledges, so the commitment was never real to begin with.
So, programs like AA are complete bunk then? Because part of the base of that program is indeed accepting and declaring your hopelessly addicted to alcohol. And yet there are people who go through that program successfully and never touch a drop of alcohol again.
Btw, the wiki on AA says the most recent surveys of AA members indicated a 35% of people in AA have been continuously sober for at least 10 years.
One of the biggest "memes" continued to be perpetuated primarily by far-right Christians is that even mentioning sex in the public schools is supposed to be a tacit license for them to engage in casual sex.
Which meme would that be?
Still trying to show you don't even know what "bigoted" means, much less "provincial" and "backwards"?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Form. You're the only guy around here that knows what words mean.
They wish to force everybody to live as they see fit like they used to do in the past.
Pure bullcrap. That's nothing more than paranoia speaking to be honest.
I notice you've abandoned the abstinence-only rhetoric. Couldnt find any states that were actually abstinence-only could ya?