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*Pledgers reported 1.09 last-year sexual partners, compared to 1.2 last-year partners for nonpledgers; and
*1.04% of pledgers reported having been paid for sex, compared to 3.34% of non-pledgers.
What is difficult to ascertain is the reliability of the starting assumptions. One-tenth of those who took the virginity pledge admit they had lied about being virgins.<ref>http://www.menstuff.org/issues/byissue/virginitypledge.html</ref> It is also difficult to know how many of those who took the pledge were conservatives versus those who may have just been temporarily talked into it during the seminar, but did not actually uphold conservative ideals in their own life.
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