First, there is a widespread idea that sexual abstinence is recommendable as the best and healthiest option.

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It is evident from the above reviewed studies that adequate social research attention has not been given to the issues of postpartum sexual abstinence which plays a vital role in a child's health outcome in the South-eastern Nigeria.

Since 1996, more than $2 billion in federal funding have been spent on programs for young people that focus on promoting sexual abstinence outside of marriage ("abstinence-only").

Shortly after winning the crown in September 2002, Harold spoke at a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, where she said she wanted her platform to be sexual abstinence -- the platform she used to become Miss Illinois -- but that pageant officials rejected it and asked her to speak about youth violence and bullying instead.

As for sexual abstinence, however, 'this has been going on for years now,' the actor told reporters during the recent media gathering for My Daily Collagen, a food supplement that Piolo endorses.

It is not just promoters of sexual abstinence who have struggled to create engaging resources that teenagers would actually want to learn from and share.

White middle class women used the moral authority stemming from their (purported) sexual abstinence to assert their equality and even superiority over men, who could not control their desires.

Sexual abstinence has also been associated with higher pregnancy rates forming a part of standard recommendation for couples in infertility treatments (12, 17, 19, 20).

Men and women who remarried after divorce or widowhood were to be forbidden communion for years and then only allowed communion on a few holy days and even then only after weeks of sexual abstinence. Men who had sex with other men were to be denied communion for either 7 or 80 days.