True love may wait -- but waiting won't make you a safer lover later on

Whether sex education focuses only on abstinence or teaches students about contraception and other topics as well, it all shares one main message: wait. In abstinence-only, students are exhorted to wait for sex until they're married. In "comprehensive" or "abstinence-plus," the idea is to delay sexual relations until later. "The underlying assumption is that delay reduces sexual risk-taking" -- and with it unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases -- says a psychologist involved with the research. This assumption has now been challenged.

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