althouse.blogspot.com - 1/30/2009
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The NYT reports that most high school kids these days are virgins. Today, fewer than half of all high school students have had sex: 47.8 percent as of 2007, according to the National Youth Risk Behavior Survey, down from 54.1 percent in 1991. A less recent report suggests that teenagers are ...
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TEENAGERS ARE HAVING LESS SEX: “How did this turn into another occasion for hand-wringing? Is that …
Instapundit —
... TEENAGERS ARE HAVING LESS SEX: “How did this turn into another occasion for hand-wringing? Is that a liberal disease? If there isn’t one problem, quick, see another problem, because programs will be needed to solve them?” ...
Birds Do It, Bees Do It, Everybody's Doing It In TimesWorld
JustOneMinute —
Ann Althouse goes off on Judith Warner and the Times coverage of the latest survey of teen sexuality, which reported that more than half of high school students have remained virgins. But what caught our eye was the Times lead to their review of Liam Neeson's action-adventure movie, "Taken": Well, wait - how dubius a plot point are we talking about? WIth no adjustment for age, gender, race, or geography we might think there was a better-than-even chance of this plot point holding up, based on the survey noted above. But let's have a dog's breakfast - the ...
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Lawyers, Guns and Money —
... I don't get it. I mean, Ann Althouse just explained the other day that because a lot of high school kids are still virgins, we really can't be certain -- aside from the reassurances of ...
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