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British Journal
By Still Curious

I went ahead and looked for the journal on the British Journal website and I cut and pasted the results I found below. Pretty interesting.
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Results:
When the intervention group was compared with the conventional sex education group in an intention to treat analysis there were no differences in sexual activity or sexual risk taking by the age of 16 years. However, those in the intervention group reported less regret of first sexual intercourse with most recent partner (young men 9.9% difference, 95% confidence

interval 18.7 to 1.0; young women 7.7% difference, 16.6 to 1.2). Pupils evaluated the intervention programme more positively, and their knowledge of sexual health improved. Lack of behavioural effect could not be linked to differential quality of delivery of intervention.
Conclusions: Compared with conventional sex education this specially designed intervention did not reduce sexual risk taking in adolescents.

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So the moral of the story here is that even though kids have the knowledge, they will still behave in sexual activity, risky or less risky. My own conclusion is that these kids do this because there is no one telling them NOT to, with substantial support and reasoning. I could go on and on, but I want to enjoy my summer vacation!