That title refers to a popular piece of dorm furniture when I was in college, but it's also what America's religious teens are doing, apparently. As Bill Maher noted on Friday night (and yes, it's true):
In a setback for the morals/values crowd, a new eight-year study just released reveals that American teenagers who take virginity pledges wind up with just as many STD's as the other kids. But that's not all. "Taking the pledge" also makes a teenage girl six times more likely to perform oral sex, and four times more likely to allow anal.I'd comment on this, but Maher said it best:
...armed with limited knowledge and believing regular, vaginal intercourse to be either immaculate or filthy dirty - these kids did with their pledge what everybody does with contracts. They found loopholes. Two of them, to be exact.I had to go to the local megachurch to vote this morning, and it gives me great pleasure to know that trading science for religion, while getting these folks a really big building, is also turning their kids into undercover porn stars. How many more failed experiments like this before the big churches give teenagers condoms at youth group?
Is there any greater irony than the fact that the Christian right actually got their precious little adolescent daughters to say to their freshly-scrubbed boyfriends, "Please, I want to remain pure for my wedding night, so only in the ass... And then I'll blow you, I promise." Well, at least these kids are really thinking outside the box.
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