Study shows bright students less likely to be sexually active

Students with higher IQs are the bright lights in every classroom. They will learn a great deal on their own, through reading, research, and discussions with peers and adults. While the teaching staff of the school are carefully guiding the average and below-average students so they will cover the core curriculum, the above-average youngsters, having already mastered the course of studies, will be exploring other avenues of interest.

They will dream about their futures, about graduate school and the professions they wish to enter. These young people will be the doctors, lawyers, and scientists of the future. They are smart enough to realize that sex and serious relationships must be put on the back burner for the present. Their first priority is likely to be the completion of their education. When that goal is accomplished, they'll plan to enter the work force with a job that earns sufficient money to support a family comfortably.

They will also be familiar with current events and knowledgeable about world affairs. They will have a desire to travel, a curiosity to experience different cultures and to see other parts of the world. Looking around at married friends and family, they will realize that travel, after one is settled down with a young family, is very difficult. Accordingly, they may make plans to see the world before becoming engaged in a serious relationship.

These young people are intelligent and responsible. Casual sex usually doesn't fit their persona. They know that with any sexual activity, emotions invariably become involved. If one or both partners are not ready to make a commitment, someone will get hurt. Who needs the hassle? And, emotional trauma is the least of a series of negative possibilities.

Most young people are aware of the myriad of STD's (sexually transmitted diseases) prevalent in today's society. The more intelligent ones are aware that an unplanned pregnancy could end the bright futures they had so carefully planned. They are aware that abstinence is the only sure method of birth control. Only a small percentage of the more daring will risk ruining their promising future with a brief sexual liaison, which will probably come to nothing in the end.

Intelligent students are usually involved in, and proficient at, more activities than their less able fellows. They haven't had to devote long hours to homework and study. They've had time to develop other interests. They can sublimate their sexual urges with a competitive game of softball or another sport, read, hang out with friends, engage in heated debates, focus their attention on a challenging game of chess or bridge. There are many alternate activities to sex, and the intelligent kids will likely choose one or more of them, at least most of the time.

The study, which states that students with high IQs are less likely to be sexually active, is correct. These young people are smart enough to realize that it doesn't take much intelligence to have sex; even animals do it. However, it does require brains to indulge in this activity at the right time, with the right person, and under the right circumstances. When one is ready to settle down, has found a partner with whom he or she wants to spend the rest of their life, and a mutual commitment of love and loyalty has been given and received, the intelligent students will know, without a doubt, that the proper time for sexual activity has arrived.