"The market is very much alive ... after a year of abstinence, " said auctioneer Tobias Meyer.
It promotes abstinence until marriage because this makes people healthier and happier, says Ms Hayes.
Abstinence-only education programmes have been controversial ever since they were introduced under Ronald Reagan in 1981.
Abstinence-based education programs also took off around that time, with government support, she said.
Anne Weyman, chief executive of the Family Planning Association said preaching abstinence was not the answer.
Responsible breeders require a detailed contract, minimally including care requirements, and abstinence of resale or re-homing.
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"Abstinence-only curriculums have gone explicitly out of their way to teach misconceptions about contraception, " she said.
Still, as Tanya Somanader notes, this should help steer the conversation away from abstinence-only education.
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Joseph Livesey, a Baptist born in 1794, became known as the founder of abstinence.
Danny Kushlik, from the pro drug-legalisation charity Transform, said that treatment was not about achieving abstinence.
For those 450, 000 American smokers who die each year, clearly, an abstinence only approach has not worked.
"Studies find that kids in abstinence-only programs have negative, biased views about whether condoms work, " she says.
Religious faith might be, however, which leads to the odd thing about some of the abstinence campaigners.
Shadow home secretary Dominic Grieve said there has been a shift in policy from abstinence to dependency.
We've had an obsession with abstinence only, to the exclusion of comprehensive prevention efforts that would work.
Unfortunately, while such humble epistemic abstinence can be admirable, somewhere we have to make definite moral judgments.
Since such programs promote abstinence only they tend to give only the disadvantages of birth control, she says.
The fate of that money, and of abstinence education itself, is uncertain under a new administration and Congress.
But for abstinence education advocates, the problems stem from not enough focus on refraining from sex until marriage.
If preaching abstinence with a convert's zeal really does prevent infection, that will have been a valuable lesson.
The bottom line is whether a 12.5% reduction in binding is meaningful as an indicator for abstinence or reduction.
America's government earmarks money for abstinence-only teaching, which is matched by individual states.
In 2008, East Tennessee Children's Hospital treated 33 infants at the hospital for drug dependence, known as neonatal abstinence syndrome.
His judicial nominations have included several evangelical Christians, such as Charles Pickering and Claude Allen, a leading advocate of abstinence-education.
Given this age-old abstinence, the bdelloids may help to solve the big question about sex: whether it really is necessary.
Unlike Malthus, who saw no remedy except plague or abstinence, Knowlton believed that a more agreeable solution was at hand.
Cynics might find Russian support for a stringent anti-bribery regime akin to an inveterate alcoholic joining a campaign for total abstinence.
The Abstinence Clearinghouse insists that it is a secular organisation, which is helpful if it wants the government to fund its cause.
There are only three proven and undisputed ways of lowering HIV prevalence and contraction: Condom use, abstinence, and monogamous relationships for life.
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Today's battles over abortion, abstinence and condoms are casting a pall over the field, and complicating what is already a formidable task.
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