Wonderful Article!!! A lot of what I feel and think is in that article. Thanks for posting it.

"They posted the conclusions on their Web site the belief that safe sex is not safe; that even the most effective methods of birth control can fail; that early sexual activity is strongly associated with all manner of terrible outcomes, from increased risk of depression to greater likelihood of marital infidelity, divorce and maternal poverty. Premarital abstinence, on the other hand, is held up by True Love Revolution as improving health, promoting better relationships and, best of all, enabling better sex in your future marriage. "

Wow...

"The more she studied and learned, the more Fredell came to realize that women suffer from having premarital sex, due to a cultural double standard, she said, which devalues women for their sexual pasts and glorifies men for theirs. "

"While Fredell framed her own abstinence in a feminist perspective, she was careful to say that women were not the only ones to benefit. Its not all about protecting women, she said. Its about protecting people. "
I like that part...

this pretty much sums it up:
"Her girlfriends are surprised that she can maintain a relationship without having sex, she said, but her boyfriend, at Georgetown, knew from the get-go what he was getting into. Fredell does not make sexual demands of him nor does he make demands of her. So Im free! she said. Im free to experience the emotional and intellectual and spiritual intimacy of another person. By closing herself off to sex, she claims to have found the humanity in her boyfriend and to have opened herself to an experience of love. Ill share this with you, Fredell confided. He said conversations with me were more enjoyable than sex would be with anyone else. Every woman, she said, should have this incredibly moving experience of being appreciated for who she really is."

thanks so much for posting this, it was truly interesting...