QNA—Questions Not Asked, but that need to be:

1. What is the strongest motivator for teens to remain sexually pure until marriage?

2. How effective are condoms in preventing sexually transmitted diseases?

3. What is love?

4. What is my child being taught in sex education classes at school?

5. What causes infertility?

6. Can sexually transmitted diseases be transmitted by oral sex?

1. What percent of teenagers in the United States are virgins?

  ___   less than 35%

  ___   more than 50%

  ___   approximately 65%.

2. In the last 10 years, this percentage has

  ___   been decreasing

  ___   stayed about the same

  ___   been increasing

3.  How many teenagers contract a sexually transmitted disease in the United States?

  ___   8000 a day

  ___   10,000 a month

  ___   500,000 a year

4. What percentage of the population of the U,S. consider themselves homosexual?

  ___   10%

  ___   7%

  ___   2%

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Your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit. You were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.

-- 1 Corinthians 6: 19-20

Answers to QNA Questions:

1. Signing a commitment card such as the True Love Waits covenant card.
   
   
2. Against HIV: 57-90%; for other STDs, from no risk reduction (for chlamydia and Human Papilloma Virus) to 50-75% reduction (for gonorrhea). [More]
   
   
3. Love isn’t just, or even primarily, a feeling – although the feeling is important. Jesus told us, and showed us, that love is thinking first of the other. So did the Apostle Paul, in 1 Corinthians 13: “Love is not self-seeking.” [More]
   
   
4. If your child’s school is teaching a comprehensive rather than an abstinence-based program, then the emphasis may be on reducing the risks of sex (rather than on postponing sex until marriage) and encouraging experimentation. [More]
   
   
5. Two of the most frequent causes of infertility are the sexually transmitted diseases chlamydia and gonorrhea. [More]
   
   
6. Essentially all sexually transmitted diseases can be transmitted by oral sex.

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Question 2: Effectiveness of Condoms
Since the emphasis on “safer sex” practices is on using a condom, you should have a clear understanding as to how effective a condom is in preventing disease. First of all, in order to be effective at all, a condom must be worn every time, must have been properly stored, and must be properly used. In such cases of “perfect” use (achieved only under laboratory conditions), these are the statistics:

• Against the HIV virus, it is between 57% and 90% effective. (Some studies have found 57%, some 90%, and some a percentage in between.) But this is true only for vaginal (i.e. heterosexual) sex. Heterosexually transmitted HIV represents only 0.03% of all cases of STDs.
• Against gonorrhea, “perfect” use of a condom prevents transmission of the disease 50-75% of the time, in men only. Most cases are not passed from female to male, and at any rate gonorrhea represents less than 2% of all cases of STDs.
• That means that for 98% of all STDs there is no proof that condoms reduce the risk of transmission. This information comes from the report “Scientific Evidence on Condom Effectiveness for Sexually Transmitted Disease Prevention,” released in July 2001.
• This helps to explain why three of every four sexually active adults in the United States currently have, or have had, an HPV infection (which can cause infertility and premature deliveries, and which kills far more women than does AIDS) and why every year 3 million Americans (40% of whom are 15-19-year-olds) contract chlamydia (a cause of cervical cancer and of persistent, year-after-year abdominal pain).

Question 3: What is Love?
There is so much in the Bible that explains to us what love should be and can be. Look, for example, at Jesus’ words in John 15:13: “Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.” That can also mean giving one’s life day by day in helping others to be what they can be.

Love is patient (I can wait). (1 Corinthians 13)
Love is kind.
Love always protects (I will never ask you to do anything that would hurt you).
Love always trusts.
Love always hopes.
Love always perseveres.
Love is not self-seeking (does not lust).
Love is not easily angered.
Love nourishes and cherishes. (Ephesians 5:25-33)

Question 4: What is my child learning at school?
So-called “Comprehensive Sex Education” may provide information on contraception (methods, how to use, where to obtain), condoms, alternatives to intercourse (mutual masturbation, for example, or oral sex – practices popularly known as “outercourse”) and suggest abortion as a last resort. Abstinence is typically included as “the only 100% safe” approach to sex, but is usually dealt with very briefly and usually not taken seriously.

Question 5: What causes infertility?
Chlamydia is the most common bacterial STD. An estimated 3 million Americans contract chlamydia each year, and 40% of chlamydia cases are among 15-19 year olds. Up to 85% of women and 40% of men infected have no recognized symptoms, so they may not even know they are carrying the disease.
An estimated 650,000 cases of gonorrhea occur in the United States each year. Rates of infection are highest among females ages 15-19 and males ages 20-24.

Answers to Test Your SIQ:

1.     More than 50%

2.     Been increasing [More]

3.     8000 a day

4.     2%