The word 'abstinence' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to the practice of refraining from certain activities, usually of a particular kind or for a particular purpose. For example, "I'm practicing abstinence from alcohol this month."
Michaelis wanted me to love him, yet I taunted him with abstinence when I met Java, a muscle-bound Stilitano.
These efficient cuts make my abstinence over new clothes seem a rough ride.
In tears, I'd locked myself in the bathroom, and cried because eight months of abstinence from alcohol had done as little to wash away my problems as drinking had.
Most HIV prevention methods, such as condoms, faithfulness or abstinence, are difficult for women to control.
The state requires only that public schools emphasise abstinence, not that they forsake all other approaches.
Similarly, he said, he would steer clear of the state's debates about abortion and sexual ethics: "Abstinence doesn't work for cows".
When I watch Palin goofing around on SNL, I see teenage girls being denied abortions (after years of abstinence-only education, of course).
Beginning in 2002, when the Bush administration began heavily funding abstinence-only programmes, the rate of decline slowed, averaging 2.6% a year through 2005, and then reversed in 2006, rising 2.9%.
Fully 94% of the districts took the abstinence-only approach.
If you had been looking at this data last year and wondering, "is the dropoff slowing?", and then the data came in this year and it had reversed, it's easy to see why you would draw the conclusion the Guttmacher Institute does: that abstinence-only sex education is contributing to teen pregnancy.Now, here's a second issue.
In Canada, where HAT trials were shown to work in Vancouver and Montreal, the conservative health minister has refused to allow them to be rolled out to the rest of the country, reiterating support for inferior law-and-order and abstinence-only policies.
