"Our collective efforts to deter premarital sex are not that successful: 41 percent of churchgoing, conservative Protestant men's relationships become sexual within one month, barely lower than the national average of 48 percent. We expend so much energy to generate so little difference."
Mark Regnerus is associate professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of Forbidden Fruit: Sex and Religion in the Lives of American Teenagers (Oxford, 2007).
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Wow. Interesting stats!
I wonder if the efforts of sermons, books, etc. are not so fruitful due to lack of genuine relationship.
Seems like a young man would be more willing to follow the footsteps of someone who loved, respected, and mentored him rather than "obey" the words of a virtual stranger...
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