Bad Pledges

The linked story refers to a new study. An old study has shown that people who make a pledge to hold off sex until marriage are more likely to wait later until having premarital sex. (Still breaking the pledge, but whatever) This new study compares people who make the pledge and people who don't make the pledge but wait longer to have sex anyway. (Living up to higher standards without the fancy vanity of being a member of a club) It shows that people who make the pledge are less likely to use condoms than those who just wait of their own volition. I hope someone out there in the world of education is paying attention. Not only is abstinence-only education completely and thoroughly ineffective, but now those people who are to be held in higher esteem because they are willing to stave off temptation neither hold up their commitments nor break this vow in the safest manner possible. I hope someone is proud of this.