Young People Ask/ What About Virginity Pledges?

What is a virginity pledge?

Do virginity pledges work?

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What is a virginity plege?

A virginity pledge is a written or oral promise to maintain sexual abstinence until marriage.

Virginity pledges became popular in the 1990's when the Southern Baptist Convention in the United States launched "True Love Waits"-a program that combined Biblical values with positive peer pressure to encourage young people to say no to sex before marriage.

A similar program, started soon afterward, featured events where attendees who took the pledge were given a silver ring to symbolize (and remind them of) their no-sex before marriage commitment.

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