Eric Zorn

Surveys have found that most men and women are not virgins when they marry, reports Eric Zorn in the following viewpoint. According to Zorn, sex education programs that teach only abstinence to teenagers are ineffective at convincing teens to delay sex until marriage. Although he maintains that trying to persuade teens to postpone sex until marriage—or at least until the later teen years—is a worthy goal, premarital teen sex is standard, normal behavior. Zorn is a syndicated columnist.

As you read, consider the following questions:

1. What percent of men and women in the Bride’s magazine reported they were virgins when they married, according to the author"

2. How many sex partners did the women in the Bride’s survey report having, other than their husbands-to-be, as cited by Zorn...