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Your tax dollars being spent to convince 29-year-olds not to have sex

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Tuesday, 31 October 2006

Seriously. Your money is being spent on abstinence-only programs for people who have already been having sex long enough to think they're pretty good at it.

Urging abstinence doesn't work particularly well on teenagers -- in conservative Texas, sexual activity actually increased after kids took the program. And of course, these programs specifically replace teaching the use of condoms. Brilliant.

Now let's try the same strategy on people old enough to have kids approaching puberty themselves.