Some adolescents make written or public virginity pledges to express their beliefs about sexual activity, and those teens who sign pledges have different sexual behaviors than those teens who do not. Adolescents who report taking a pledge to remain a virgin are at a lower risk of an early age of sexual initiation (Resnick et al., 1997; Bearman & Brückner, 2001). Having made a written or public virginity pledge is associated with not having had sex among minority males and black females (Blum, Beuhring & Rinehart, 2000), and pledging significantly delays intercourse for the majority of pledgers in early and middle adolescence (Bearman & Brückner, 2001). Making a virginity pledge protects against sexual initiation as long as the pledge is made within a minority community of pledgers in a school where social relations are for the most part, confined in the school. However, making a virginity pledge in this sort of environment loses its protective nature when the percentage of pledgers in a socially-closed school increases, and pledging, in effect, becomes normative (Bearman & Brückner, 2001). Also, pledgers are one-third less likely to use contraceptives if they do initiate sexual intercourse (Bearman & Brückner, 2001).