Abstinence-Before-Marriage Proposal
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PREMARITAL SEXUAL
BEHAVIORS AND THE STATE OF THE MARRIAGE
A Thesis
Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the
Louisiana State University and
Agricultural and Mechanical College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
Master of Science in The School of Human Ecology
By
Allison Claire Rayburn
B.S., Louisiana State University, 2005
May 2007
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
“Not to us, O LORD, not to us, but to Your name give glory, for the sake of Your steadfast love and Your faithfulness!”
Psalms 115:1
First and foremost, I thank my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, for guiding me and teaching me in my experience. Without Him, I would be lost and doomed for eternity, but for some reason
He …show more content…
According to program directors, sexual abstinence is usually defined as the complete avoidance or self-denial of sexual behaviors, including oral sex.
Abstinence-only instructors and participants tended to define abstinence differently; they tended to define abstinence as the avoidance of sexual intercourse only (Goodson, Suther, Pruitt, &
Wilson, 2003). It seems that most researchers agree with the majority of program instructors and participants; most research that has reported on sexual abstinence considered the abstinence of sexual intercourse only.
The 5.5 million male adolescents and 5.2 million female adolescents aged 15-19 who reported never having had sexual intercourse listed religion and morality (31.4% of males;
37.8% of females) and the fear of pregnancy (25.2% of males; 18.7% of females) as the main reasons for their sexual abstinence (Abma et al., 2004). Another study found that individuals
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who chose to remain sexually abstinent reported four reasons for their decisions: inadequate love within the relationship, fear of STDs and pregnancy, beliefs supporting sexual abstinence,
BEHAVIORS AND THE STATE OF THE MARRIAGE
A Thesis
Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the
Louisiana State University and
Agricultural and Mechanical College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
Master of Science in The School of Human Ecology
By
Allison Claire Rayburn
B.S., Louisiana State University, 2005
May 2007
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
“Not to us, O LORD, not to us, but to Your name give glory, for the sake of Your steadfast love and Your faithfulness!”
Psalms 115:1
First and foremost, I thank my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, for guiding me and teaching me in my experience. Without Him, I would be lost and doomed for eternity, but for some reason
He …show more content…
According to program directors, sexual abstinence is usually defined as the complete avoidance or self-denial of sexual behaviors, including oral sex.
Abstinence-only instructors and participants tended to define abstinence differently; they tended to define abstinence as the avoidance of sexual intercourse only (Goodson, Suther, Pruitt, &
Wilson, 2003). It seems that most researchers agree with the majority of program instructors and participants; most research that has reported on sexual abstinence considered the abstinence of sexual intercourse only.
The 5.5 million male adolescents and 5.2 million female adolescents aged 15-19 who reported never having had sexual intercourse listed religion and morality (31.4% of males;
37.8% of females) and the fear of pregnancy (25.2% of males; 18.7% of females) as the main reasons for their sexual abstinence (Abma et al., 2004). Another study found that individuals
21
who chose to remain sexually abstinent reported four reasons for their decisions: inadequate love within the relationship, fear of STDs and pregnancy, beliefs supporting sexual abstinence,