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Entries Tagged ‘Abstinence’

Seven Items of Interest v3

1.  Beyond cutting…way beyond cutting.
A look at Self-Embedding Disorder: Teens Putting Nails, Paper Clips in Bodies, from Foxnews.com.  This is very disturbing.  (Thanks Paul Kuzma via Twitter)
2. One couple’s abstinence plan.
This Chicago couple did not even kiss before they got married.  While that may not be for everyone, I admire their commitment.  Plus, they don’t [...]

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Evangelicals and teenage sexuality

I stumbled into an interesting article in the New Yorker online about evangelicals and teenage sex.  It, predictably, had to bring up Sarah Palin and her daughter.  (It was written before the election.)  But it also delves into the fact that teenage evangelicals are sexually active to a higher degree than we would like to [...]

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On Secular Abstinence

I found this last week on CT. Very Interesting….
What may be a promising twist to the story of the American university’s fall from grace was covered in a recent New York Times Magazine article, “Students of Virginity.” There’s a growing number of brave students banding together to both resist the hookup culture and to [...]

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