{"id":73,"date":"2005-05-20T11:59:49","date_gmt":"2005-05-20T15:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/?p=73"},"modified":"2005-05-20T12:01:01","modified_gmt":"2005-05-20T16:01:01","slug":"i-gave-my-word-to-stop-at-third","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/20\/i-gave-my-word-to-stop-at-third\/","title":{"rendered":"I gave my word to stop at third"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Department of Health and Human Services has given over $1M to Silver Ring Thing, a faith-based that distributes &#8220;abstinence rings&#8221; to teenagers, as part of a government initiative to expand abstinence-only sex education. From the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/4553721.stm\">BBC article<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;official rings are inscribed with verses from the Bible, 1 Thessalonians 4, 3-4, reading: &#8220;God wants you to be holy, so you should keep clear of all sexual sin. Then each of you will control your body and live in holiness and honour.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The church\/state separation issues and health issues here are obvious and horrible. But aside from that, I&#8217;m curious how it plays out with dating among teens.<br \/>\nMy speculation is that it&#8217;s a boon for punani-seeking teenage guys. First, it lets them quickly identify those that won&#8217;t give it up. Already, that saves them much time, effort, sexual frustration, and money. Second, wearing the ring becomes a valuable tool to pass off his hormone-induced advances as platonic intent. Previously this was accomplished by the guy pretending to be gay.  Conclusion: more cooch will be gotten.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Department of Health and Human Services has given over $1M to Silver Ring Thing, a faith-based that distributes &#8220;abstinence rings&#8221; to teenagers, as part of a government initiative to expand abstinence-only sex education. From the BBC article: &#8230;official rings are inscribed with verses from the Bible, 1 Thessalonians 4, 3-4, reading: &#8220;God wants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idiotic","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}