The “sexual début” of an evangelical girl typically occurs just after she turns sixteen...Social liberals in the country’s “blue states” tend to support sex education and are not particularly troubled by the idea that many teen-agers have sex before marriage, but would regard a teen-age daughter’s pregnancy as devastating news. And the social conservatives in “red states” generally advocate abstinence-only education and denounce sex before marriage, but are relatively unruffled if a teen-ager becomes pregnant, as long as she doesn’t choose to have an abortion.
I started to copy more interesting paragraphs and statistics from this New Yorker article by Margaret Talbot about sex, teen-agers and the political divide, but it's probably just easier to read the whole thing.
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