Rath said:
People don't have a natural and extremely powerful biological urge to play with snakes. It's not a very good example at all. People simply want to have sex - their body tells them to and the combined might of the media tells them to. A teacher telling them not to doesn't seem to work according to the majority of studies. |
Your right. The fact that it's a natural urge is why absitence education is even more important to be at the forefront of education. Otherwise EVERYBODY would be doing it.
With snake handling, it would only deter a part of the population that is interested in that in the first place. So such statistics for something that's less of a universal urge would be less impressive and harder to measure. In general, this is an arguement AGAINST your point, not for it. I was going to mention it but left it out for brevity's sake.
Outside which, I don't believe there has been another study that's actually studied it.
The other studies I've seen has compaired abstinence only vs a combined apporach INCLUDING abistinence.
Which is like arguieng a diet doesn't work, because in studies, people with a diet and exorcise has a higher amount of weight loss then just the diet.
That is, unless you can offer a study that says the opposite... I don't think you're likely to find it though.
All i've ever seen is the above, the mentioned study and then studies that show people who go through absitence only studies tend to preform better in school, likely due to students being drawn to it being the same people who would pass the "marshmellow" test.
Oh, and a metanalysis that seems to show it generally has less to do with the method but how it's carried out. IE the more moralistic your abistence only program is the more likely it is to fail. IE focusing on it being bad, is worse then focusing on it's danger.