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Surprise! Abstinence education works. By: David Freddoso Online Opinion Editor beltway-confidential 02/02/10 8:24 AM EST A valid, on-point study suggests that abstinence education works better in delaying sexual onset in 6th and 7th graders than other forms of sex-ed. Not only that, but kids who go through it and begin to have sex anyway are no less likely to use condoms. <<< In the first carefully designed study to evaluate the controversial approach to sex ed, researchers found that only about a third of 6th and 7th graders who went through sessions focused on abstinence started having sex in the next two years. In contrast, nearly half of students who got other classes, including those that included information about contraception, became sexually active... >>> Details of the study: <<< The study released Monday involved 662 African American students...randomly assigned to go through one of the following: an eight-hour curriculum that encouraged them to delay having sex; an eight-hour program focused on teaching safe sex; an eight- or 12-hour program that did both; or an eight-hour program focused on teaching them other ways to be healthy, such as eating well and exercising. Over the next two years, about 33 percent of the students who went through the abstinence program started having sex, compared with about 52 percent who were taught only safe sex. About 42 percent of the students who went through the comprehensive program started having sex, and about 47 percent of those who learned about other ways to be healthy did. The abstinence program had no negative effects on condom use, which has been a major criticism of the abstinence approach. >>> Sex educators of the Planned Parenthood variety, frustrated during the Bush years at seeing "their" money (really taxpayers' money) go to abstinence groups, cannot just explain these results away. washingtonexaminer.com