Rick Santorum

The Obama administration now has regulations that tells them that they can no longer promote marriage to these young girls. They can no longer promote marriage as a way of avoiding poverty and bad choices that they make in their life. They can no longer even teach abstinence education. They have to be neutral with respect to how people behave.

American Politician

Antonya Nelson

Teenagers, especially girl ones, seem like the perfect canary-in-the-coal-mine characters to me. They capture American culture and its perversion, its hypocrisy - how absorbed we are with youth and beauty and sexualized imagery, for instance, while preaching abstinence and modesty.

American Author

Kerry Healey

Well, I think that abstinence has its place as part of a comprehensive health and sex education curriculum. It would be wrong to exclude abstinence from a health curriculum, because there are some potentially very serious ramifications for early sexual activity.

Thomas Jefferson

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.

American President

Giacomo Casanova

I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself.

Italian Celebrity

Samuel Butler

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.

British Poet

Voltaire

Use, do not abuse... neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

French Writer

Ali ibn Abi Talib

Abstinence from sins is better than seeking help afterwards.

Clergyman

Saint Augustine

To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

Saint

Robert South

Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.

English Clergyman

Abstinence shows a deliberate decision for a healthy lifestyle.

Health Conscious

Emphasizes abstinence is a personal choice, not forced.

Voluntary Choice

Abstinence can be for a limited time, not always permanent.

Temporary Period

Abstinence often refers to refraining from sexual activity.

Sexual Context

Abstinence can be a discussed and respected aspect in relationships.

Relationship Aspect

Used in sexual education to promote waiting for sexual encounters.

Education Link

Abstinence can be a part of religious practices during holy times.

Religious Practice

It's not just about quantity but also the type of food abstained from.

Dietary Restriction

 Life is temptation. It's all about yielding, resisting, yes, no, now, later, impulsive, reflective, present focus and future focus. Promised virtues fall prey to the passions of the moment. Of teenage girls who pledged sexual abstinence and virginity until marriage --

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 the norm rather than the exception abstinence allows time for people to have a good relationship abstinence only focuses on the fact that sex involves risks it encourages children to exercise self-control which is going to be important for them not only prior to

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 Soon that war on drugs spread to become a war on sex. We were pushing abstinence on kids to fight AIDS. And when all the data finally came home, guess completely ineffective.