Interacting with articles from Slate to World to The New York Times to a recent book by Mark Regnerus, professor of sociology at the University of Texas, this Boundless writer contemplates what is nothing short of a crisis in modern sex ethics among young evangelicals.
Drawing upon the results of three national surveys of teenagers and 250 interviews he conducted, Regnerus found that self-identified “evangelical” teenagers are no less likely than their non-Evangelical peers to have sex. If anything, they’re slightly more likely.
According to Regnerus’ findings, whereas non-evangelical teens have sex for the first time at age 16.7, the average age for evangelical teens is 16.3. Even worse, evangelical teens are more likely to have had three or more sexual partners (13.7 percent) than their non-evangelical peers (8.9 percent).” Read the rest…
TheoFormers, I’ll see you in the morning.
