For 300 local teens, abstinence has a ring to it

NORTH ANDOVER — Three-hundred teenagers crammed into the Rogers Center at Merrimack College last night yelling out, “Sex is great.”

But not until marriage, that is.

In a time when racy teen television shows have flooded the airwaves and celebrity teen pregnancies are dominating magazine covers, local high school students slid silver rings on their left ring fingers and vowed to practice abstinence until they hear the wedding bells.

Sixteen-year-old Andy Saulnier was there for a second time, back for a replacement after losing his first abstinence ring he received four years ago.

“You think the media would tell you not to have sex,” the Amesbury teenager said. “They say it’s OK to do it. … I’m fine wearing my ring. When I first had it I got picked on a little, but I don’t care. More people have them now.”

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