According to Reuters News, 15,000 teens have attended the "No Apologies" chastity workshops and almost 80 percent have pledged to refrain from premarital sex.

The workshops are meant to promote chastity before marriage and sexual faithfulness within marriage. It is a Christian attempt to slice through the increase of illicit sex and AIDS/HIV.

Particularly today, Valentine’s Day, workshop organizers are taking full advantage of the celebration to warn about recreational sex diseases while encouraging purity until and after marital vows are exchanged.

It’s the prelude to a whole week Abstinence Awareness Campaign on Singapore. The island, already strict per government regulations, is ready environs for the chastity push. Such magazines as Playboy are banned from the country. Oral sex between males is a crime. Singapore has one of the lowest Asian birth rates as well as low in condom sales.

"Worth Waiting For" is the campaign’s slogan. Volunteers from "Focus on the Family" have fanned out across the city-state, marketing wristbands for $2 apiece that repeat the slogan. They are also collecting written pledge signatures from adolescent saying they’ll keep to the chastity lifestyle.

"We hope that the street sales will raise awareness about abstaining from sexual acts and tell young people that they have what it takes to save themselves until they are married," said one organizer Joanna Koh-Hoe.

"We want to let them know that it is cool to save themselves for marriage," she said.

J. Grant Swank, Jr.