“Abstinence-only sex education doesn’t work” has been repeated so often that it’s become holy writ. Now comes a little good news for the much maligned program.
A two-year National Institute of Mental Health-funded “randomized trial of several interventions, including abstinence-only” showed “a “statistically significant benefit” for the abstinence approach: it was more effective in delaying sexual initiation.
John Gever, senior editor of MedpageToday, summarizes: