your view is well-supported by science, except that it’s easier than this.
The early years of the W administration were quite sincere about Abstinence Only education. Not only did they lavishly fund these programs, they even did “field trials” of sorts.
The findings were interesting. “Comprehensive Sex Ed,” what you are describing, works best. Not a huge surprise there. However, how it worked was quite surprising.
Teens didn’t have less unprotected sex. Rather, they delayed the age of coital debut by, on average, about six months. Conversely, Abstinence only programs had no measurable effect on the average age of coital debut.
That is, if you tell a kid “don’t fuck,” they ignore you. But you say, “here are the facts, make up your own mind”, a bunch of them will actually abstain, waiting until they are a bit older to get their freak on.
As for the plunging teen age pregnancy rates? That’s Norplant and other long term female contraceptives. We can tell its not condoms, because, sadly, STDs are not plummeting.
