Darryl Hell (born Darryl Montgomery, also known as DJ Hell) is a musician and multimedia artist who has been involved with multiple groups, including but not limited to Public Disturbance, Sektor 6 Kommunikatons, Abstinence, Emergency Broadcast Network, and Operation Mindwipe.
Clinical studies by the Guttmacher Institute found that periodic abstinence resulted in a 25.3 percent failure under typical conditions, though it did not differentiate between symptom-based and calendar-based methods.
However, a significant faction of the OPC, led by Carl McIntire, and including other men such as J. Oliver Buswell and Allan MacRae held to such things as total abstinence from alcohol and Premillennialist eschatology (positions held by a number of respected leaders throughout the history of American Presbyterianism).
Purity ring, a ring worn to signify a pledge to sexual abstinence until married
In 1734, the Leiden-based physician Johann Bachstrom published a book on scurvy in which he stated that "scurvy is solely owing to a total abstinence from fresh vegetable food, and greens; which is alone the primary cause of the disease" and urged the use of fresh fruit and vegetables as a cure.
Joycelyn Elders, former Surgeon General of the United States, is a notable critic of abstinence-only sex education.
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In 2004, U.S. Congressman Henry Waxman of California released a report that provides several examples of inaccurate information being included in federally funded abstinence-only sex education programs.