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Comprehensive Sex Education

Much of the degrading of abstinence programs has been made by the proponents of comprehensive sex education.  But what if comprehensive programs were scrutinized according to the same criteria as the abstinence programs in the Mathematica study (a follow up period of 2.5 - 5.5 years, a high level success criteria, and random assignment)?  Here's what you would find:

Dr. Douglas Kirby led a team of researchers who studied 50 well designed evaluation studies of comprehensive sex programs as part of Family Health International, Youth Research Working Paper Series, No. 2. 

They found:

1.  Only one program succeeded in increasing the prevalence of consistent condom use (CCU) for a period of one year.  None of the programs increased the prevalence of consistent condom use for a period greater than one year.   CCU is the only condom measure that approaches the standard of the abstinence measure.

2.  13 control trials of comprensive sex education found no increase in condom usage over any period of time.

3.  Only 2 programs succeeded in improving less stringent measures of teen condom use (not CCU) for a period longer than 2 years.