<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/172ef08a-225a-4d8e-bc21-9431c2848509/4556AAFA-64D5-4D01-851C-A6D6202B030D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://nomorequo.blogspot.com/2007/05/romeo-and-juliet-effect-why-christians.html" href="http://nomorequo.blogspot.com/2007/05/romeo-and-juliet-effect-why-christians.html" style="font-size: 11px;">nomorequo.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://nomorequo.blogspot.com/2007/05/romeo-and-juliet-effect-why-christians.html">"The Romeo and Juliet Effect." Essentially, it's an example of <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactance_(psychology)">Psychological Reactance</A>, whereby rules and restrictions actually make you more prone to resist them.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://nomorequo.blogspot.com/2007/05/romeo-and-juliet-effect-why-christians.html">Saudi Arabia's oppressive sexual environment has been written about several times in recent days. In fact, <A href="http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/prem/200705/gay-saudi-arabia">this recent Atlantic Monthly</A> article claims that heterosexual sexual relationships are so heavily regulated that it's easier to be a homosexual (because people won't suspect).</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://nomorequo.blogspot.com/2007/05/romeo-and-juliet-effect-why-christians.html"><DIV><SPAN>-Abstinence-only education</SPAN> - If abstinence-only education was shown to work, I might even be a fan of it. But studies have shown that it's <A href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200412030007">not only riddled with inaccuracies</A>, it's <A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/28/opinion/28sat1.html?ex=1335412800&en=f9026fe8b426eca7&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss">completely useless</A> in accomplishing what it sets out to do.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://nomorequo.blogspot.com/2007/05/romeo-and-juliet-effect-why-christians.html">Christians aren't supposed to have sex until they are married. In recent years, <A href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/05/20/60minutes/main696975.shtml#september18">many have made it official</A> by taking a pledge of abstinence. However, studies have shown that Christians, even those that take the pledge, are just as likely to have sex as non-Christians.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/4556AAFA-64D5-4D01-851C-A6D6202B030D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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