Well, it works well for me. 16 years married, and I have never cheated. In fact most of my friends and colleagues have been married a long time, including my friend Irving. He and his wife have been married for 70 years (they're both 92).
The percentages are meaningless when we're talking personal choice. It is a valid way of avoiding STD's, and a choice I made back in 1990 when I was 20.
Not to be a downer, but you've only effectively lived 1/3rd of your life, not to mention is that you aren't the only partner in your relationship.
Monogamy may work, safe sex pretty much always work :)
Most people not only not getting married at 20 if at all these days, they are also having sex at an earlier age.
GL telling 16 year olds to wait, I wasn't going to get married in high school, and I had no intention of waiting then or even with hindsight now.
Safe sex pretty much always works...riiiiight. Condoms never break.
I remember the term safe sex back in the late 80's. Then the term was changed to safer sex. So let's say you're going to have sex with a person and just before you start to get it on they say "oh, by the way, I have AIDS". Are you still going to have sex with them?
And oh, look! Abstinence-only is not very effective, but Abstinence-plus presents all the information, including the closing sentence "Only if they are provided with all the information they need to make their own decisions will they be able to decide wisely."
Huh. Learning about everything and then leaving it up to the individual to decide. What a concept.
The percentages are meaningless when we're talking personal choice. It is a valid way of avoiding STD's, and a choice I made back in 1990 when I was 20.