This just in: teens have sex even when you tell them not to

BBC: US sex-abstinence classes queried

US students attending sexual abstinence classes are no more likely to abstain from sex than those who do not, according to a new study.

Duh.

I've asked this before, and I'll ask it again: how is it that conservatives can get away with calling liberals naive?

Conservatives actually believe that telling teenagers not to have sex will prevent them from having sex.

Yeah. Right. Problem solved. Because we know that if there's one thing teens love, it's doing exactly what adults tell them to do.

This study proves what anyone who's ever been a teenager, had contact with a teenager, or seen a teenager on TV should have inferred: that teenagers will have sex. Period. As the study shows, it doesn't matter whether you throw 10 million dollars or 176 million dollars at programs trying to stop them. You can't. They're teenagers!

The question is not whether teens are going to have sex. The question is, when the time comes that they do have sex, will they do so safely?

As long as this administration continues to model its sex education policy after that of the 17th-century Puritans, the answer is no.