I’m using “not popular” in the same way I would use listening to your parents as “not popular” … which is not the same as say a poll where both parents and children participate. When you add parents and grandparents and those who are not callow – abstinence is popular.
A new study confirms abstinence education works:
Dr. David Stevens, the head of the 16,000-member Christian Medical Association, said he appreciated the new study, published in the Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine.
Science has finally caught up with logic and what parents have known for centuries by empirically demonstrating that equipping teens to abstain from sexual activity is an effective way to prevent teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases,” he said.
There are reasons beyond the bible why as one gets wise they will push for abstinence education – broken families is just one. It becomes clear as one looks at non abstinence lifestyles that there is a pattern of broken relationships and unhappiness.
Science has figured out reasons why:
Scientific data shows adult intimacy linked to bonding, family creation.
… Doctors Joe McIlhaney and Freda McKissic Bush laid out the scope of current medical knowledge regarding casual sex in their 2008 book Hooked: New Science on How Casual Sex Is Affecting Our Children.1 Increases in dopamine, a brain chemical that gives a sensation of satisfaction, accompany exciting and rewarding experiences. This stimulates a desire for more of the activity that brings the sensation. However, the authors noted that dopamine is values-neutral. The same dopamine-associated sense of well-being can result from both good and bad, healthy and harmful actions.
According to McIlhaney and Bush, when a woman is touched in a loving way, her brain secretes oxytocin, which activates feelings of closeness and trust. Breastfeeding has a similar effect, encouraging mommy-baby bonding. More intimate physical contact produces more oxytocin, which leads to a greater desire for that close feeling.
Oxytocin production, like dopamine, is not controlled by conscience or consciousness, but is a physiological effect of intimate contact. When this is experienced outside the commitment of marriage, the authors noted that women can become deceived into thinking a bad relationship is good because of the effects of touch-dependent oxytocin. And when that relationship ends, the broken bond and feelings of betrayal of trust can lead to severe emotional trauma.
For men, an effect of vasopressin–which floods a man’s brain during intercourse–is that it leads to a bonded feeling with his partner. Research shows that if he has intercourse with multiple partners, the bonded feeling is dissipated, eventually imperiling a man’s ability to form long-term attachments. …
The facts are simple – want the next generation to have another generation of children who have what they need – teach them abstinence.
