One of my oft-spouted beliefs is that abstinence education and pledges do not work. I'm sure they make a lot of parents feel good but they're lulled into a bogus sense of security that their kids are not having sex. As further proof that it's a sham, consider the fact that an awful lot of young people who have taken abstinence pledges and who claim they're not having intercourse are coming down with sexually-transmitted diseases. Wonder how that happened.