This failure rate of 15 to 20 percent, however, only measures pregnancies. Condoms provide no statistically significant protection against HPV or chlamydia, because these diseases may infect sites not covered by a condom. We know, however, that even if a cure for these infections were available today-the STD problem would not be solved. Delaying sex until marriage or abstinence is the only advice supported by medical research that offers 100 percent protection from sexually transmitted diseases. Sex education courses in many of our schools are partly to blame for society's misguided notions of what sex is all about.
Many parents see nothing wrong with sharing the biology of sex outside the context of marriage.
When we teach sex a primarily a biological function, we reduce this blessing of God to mere mechanics and ourselves to mere animals. While there are biological functions that we all can benefit from knowing, it is no wonder our young people are thought to not be able to control their so-called primal urges when we treat them like animals. When abstinence education is presented to teens within the correct context the results are staggering. One study reports that participants in an abstinence-based program are five times less likely to engage in intercourse than those who have not received the abstinence counseling. The message is clear-we should expect more virtue from our teens and they should expect more Godly counsel from us.