Monogamy may work, safe sex pretty much always work :) Most people not only not getting married at 20 if at all these days, they are also having sex at an earlier age.
GL telling 16 year olds to wait, I wasn't going to get married in high school, and I had no intention of waiting then or even with hindsight now.
This is untrue. We have the most prude generation right now. http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-millennials-...
I remember the term safe sex back in the late 80's. Then the term was changed to safer sex. So let's say you're going to have sex with a person and just before you start to get it on they say "oh, by the way, I have AIDS". Are you still going to have sex with them?
Well then it's settled. I hope to read your manuscript in Lancet next month. STD epidemics are cured thanks to milesf boundless fidelity!
And oh, look! Abstinence-only is not very effective, but Abstinence-plus presents all the information, including the closing sentence "Only if they are provided with all the information they need to make their own decisions will they be able to decide wisely."
Huh. Learning about everything and then leaving it up to the individual to decide. What a concept.
It's even better as you get older and begin to appreciate that enduring fidelity actually increases love. But I guess many here don't know that.
Statistics say most people are weak willed. shrug. That's obvious, and still not a reason to live that way.
The percentages are meaningless when we're talking personal choice. It is a valid way of avoiding STD's, and a choice I made back in 1990 when I was 20.