An Rx For Teen Sex

Doctors are joining the abstinence movement. Here's why they're now telling kids, Just say no

The slide show was chilling: a cervix with precancerous lesions, shriveled fallopian tubes. But what made Seth Claude and his friends really blanch was a penis covered in sores and distended like an autumn gourd. "Before, I just thought if you got genital warts, maybe you had one or two, but then I saw the person with a bajillion of them and was, like, 'Whoa,'" says Seth, 13. "[The pictures] are enough to make you have nightmares."

But will they keep him from having sex? The images form the backbone of Worth the Wait, a sex-education curriculum taught at Seth's school,...

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