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Sex Education Still Not Working, Eh?

By  Zach Behrens
Published Jun 3, 2010 12:00 AM
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A report from The National Survey of Family Growth finds that 17% of teens used the rhythm method -- you know, having unprotected sex based on some math and ovulation cycles -- from 2006 and 2008. That's up 11% from 2002. As the LA Times puts it in their story, "the method has a relatively high failure rate."