Promise Ring Probation

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Get high in Texas, get forced into abstinence:

A state district judge has ordered a 17-year-old drug offender barred from sex as a condition of her probation. Judge Lauri Blake made the ruling that bars the girl from having sex as long as she is living with her parents and attending school.

That seems like a super reason to quit school and/or move in with a boyfriend. On the upside, treating celibacy as a punishment for drug use should annoy abstinence-only types. And this tip from the ACLU seems unhelpful for a variety of reasons, particularly given the case at hand:

Steve Blackburn, a lawyer involved with the Dallas chapter of the Arizona Civil Liberties Union, said defendants who don't like their probation conditions can reject them and go to jail.