please DU this abstinence poll on CSPAN

http://www.capitalnews.org/

When I voted it was 29% yes and 71% No
Now it is 31% yes and 69% No
this was in only 5 minutes
Thanks

1322 votes.

70% no.

Do you agree with the Bush Admin.'s emphasis on sexual abstinence as the most effective way to combat HIV/AIDS?


Yes 30%


No 70%

Total Votes: 1330

are two entirely different things- though in America's culture of lies- science no longer means very much.

I mean, abstinence is the best way to avoid STD's correct? On that merit I find the poll faulty because that isn't really the point.

The point is that there are many other responsible ways to avoid STD's as well, and they shouldn't be foresaken at the expense of pushing religious ideals down people's throats.

Badly phrased.

My initial response would jerk the results the wrong way. OF COURSE abstinence works better than any other method. If you don't have sex, you don't get STDs. Period.

But how realistic is that? Honestly?

Not very.

Masturbation and responsible condom use are two things that WILL work. But we all know what happened when someone in the CLINTON administration used the dreaded "M" word.

Bah.

:kick:

Do you agree with the Bush Admin.'s emphasis on sexual abstinence as the most effective way to combat HIV/AIDS?
Yes
29%
No
71%

I didn't know this was in dispute. It's not the only way and in no way should be taught above other ways, but its the only fool proof way of not getting pregnant or contracting an STD. :shrug: Did I miss something?

Preaching abstinence does nothing to quell human nature - in the context of HIV/AIDS, it's absurd to think people will just stop having sex.

But it sounded like it didn't work. It works, just not long term.
Duckie

Like.. what's the % that will permently abstine from sex? Eventualy they WILL have sex. So they are NOT absttining, they are DELAYING sex. Delaying it until WHEN? Marriage? Right! THey delay it until they think they have found the 'right one.' EIther way, it doesn't insure they will not get STDs or prego. Infact, in such situations, the don't want to take the romance our of it by actualy PLANNING.. Ya know, like carring protection. Actualy, carrying protection means your planning on SINNING and not over taken by 'loving passions.'

That type of teaching pretty much ensures such 'abstining 'persons will GET STD's and/or prego.

No such thing as perment abstinence. Eventualy the preson will have sex.. so they were NOT abstining, they were waiting.

If you have sex with somebody who does not have an STD, your chances of catching an STD is exactly 0%.

Which is why kids who have sex have the same rate of STDs as those kids in the abstinence programs.

abstinence???? what a joke, go tell that to a young adult who has raging hormones!!

Do you support, or oppose a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage?
Support 25%
Oppose 75%

Total Votes: 2029

... was yesterday's poll.

Still... it's good to see 75% of the people who answered THIS question do OPPOSE the constitutional amendment.