Her group's education efforts include abstinence as well as other birth control means, she said.

Most Americans prefer an approach that includes both abstinence and information about other methods to prevent pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease.

Malthus held that in order to prevent widespread suffering, from famine for example, what he called "moral restraint" (which included abstinence) was required.

Past topics include: mental health, abstinence, and forgiveness.

Methods of prevention include abstinence, condoms, vaccination and microbicides.

But perhaps most importantly, the judge required that because he had been diagnosed as an alcoholic, his sentence must include complete abstinence.

"Clean" here means ceremonially clean, and that term among other things includes sexual abstinence at least four days before and after ingestion of the mushrooms.

This must include instruction on pregnancy prevention as well as abstinence.