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Policymakers and the media often sensationalize teen sexual behavior, suggesting that adolescents as young as 10 or 11 are increasingly sexually active,” study researcher Lawrence Finer of the nonprofit Guttmacher Institute said in a statement. “But the data just don’t support that concern. Rather, we are seeing teens waiting longer to have sex, using contraceptives more frequently when they start having sex, and being less likely to become pregnant than their peers of past decades.
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What’s the typical use effectiveness rate for abstinence? All I can find anywhere, even at organizations that teach abstinence, or say it’s the only effective method of contraception, is the perfect use rate. How well does it really work for people in real life? Why doesn’t anyone have that information on this method when we do for every other method?
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Who uses Scarleteen?

This is a question that’s come up a few times again lately, so we’re recirculating the results of our last demographics survey (which we think is pretty fascinating, anyway, and always interesting to look at):

• Scarleteen By The Numbers: The Results of Our Demographics Survey

• Scarleteen By The Numbers: What’s Gotten Better? What Has Not?

• Scarleteen By the Numbers: What You Said

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Ten Truths about Sexual Health

  1. The teen birth rate is down.
  2. The abortion rate is down
  3. Access to family planning improves maternal and child health.
  4. Sex education increases knowledge and decreases risks.
  5. Condoms work.
  6. Contraception works.
  7. Emergency Contraception (Plan B- One Step ™) works by preventing pregnancy. It does not cause an abortion.
  8. Access to a full range of contraceptives decreases the risks of sexual behaviors without increasing risky sexual behavior.
  9. Abstinence works while people remain abstinent. When they’re not, it doesn’t.
  10. Family planning clinics are not in business because of the high profit margin.

These ten concepts have been supported, substantiated, replicated or demonstrated over decades. Statistical results are based on scientific and/or medical standards.  For my entire career, ideologues have taken a directly opposite stance to each and every one, by any and every means — except credible evidence.

Read it all here.

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