A valid, on-point study suggests that abstinence education works better in delaying sexual onset in 6th and 7th graders than other forms of sex-ed. Not only that, but kids who go through it and begin to have sex anyway are no less likely to use condoms.

In the first carefully designed study to evaluate the controversial approach to sex ed, researchers found that only about a third of 6th and 7th graders who went through sessions focused on abstinence started having sex in the next two years. In contrast, nearly half of students who got other classes, including those that included information about contraception, became sexually active…

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