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"According to the study conducted by UNC-Chapel Hill and published in the British Medical Journal, the phenomenon was “more common among women who signed chastity pledges or whose parents indicated lower levels of communication with their children about sex and birth control”."

Full study
http://www.bmj.com/content/347/bmj.f7102 (abstract below)

Don't miss the comments, mostly by doctors!
http://www.bmj.com/content/347/bmj.f7102?tab=responses

Love the study title

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"Abstract Objective To estimate the incidence of self report of pregnancy without sexual intercourse (virgin pregnancy) and factors related to such reporting, in a population representative group of US adolescents and young adults. Design Longitudinal, population representative sample survey. Setting Nationally representative, multiethnic National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, United States. Participants 7870 women enrolled at wave I (1995) and completing the most recent wave of data collection (wave IV; 2008-09). Main outcome measures Self reports of pregnancy and birth without sexual intercourse. Results 45 women (0.5%) reported at least one virgin pregnancy unrelated to the use of assisted reproductive technology. Although it was rare for dates of sexual initiation and pregnancy consistent with virgin pregnancy to be reported, it was more common among women who signed chastity pledges or whose parents indicated lower levels of communication with their children about sex and birth control. Conclusions Around 0.5% of women consistently affirmed their status as virgins and did not use assisted reproductive technology, yet reported virgin births. Even with numerous enhancements and safeguards to optimize reporting accuracy, researchers may still face challenges in the collection and analysis of self reported data on potentially sensitive topics."

12/26/2013 5:23:11 PM

Al-Jazeera posted it, therefore it's false.

[Edited on December 26, 2013 at 5:27 PM. Reason : (/rethug)

12/26/2013 5:27:25 PM

^ true story

12/26/2013 5:28:46 PM

i saw this report the other day. what i want to know is how many of these are the results of exposure to sperm by means other than full-on vaginal penetration, and how many of them are just flat-out lying?

12/26/2013 7:05:47 PM

100% are lying

12/26/2013 9:19:37 PM

well except for mary. she TOTALLY didn't bwn joseph.

12/26/2013 11:36:15 PM

Mary didn't bwn Joseph. She boned someone else and Joseph bought her bullshit

12/26/2013 11:43:09 PM

^you are going to hell.

12/26/2013 11:48:44 PM