Saving Myself for Marriage

Over the past few weeks I have been emailing with an About.com reader who decided to wait for marriage before having sex. He made this decision, but he's worried about it. What struck me the most about his first email was his expression of doubt. This, I think, is unusual.

Not that people who try to abstain from sex don't have doubts about their choices. Like all of us, they must. But when you read about the issue of abstinence or chastity particularly in the media, you rarely find people equ...