Adventists of Bermuda this month.

The church has brought in an Adventist author who has written a book which deals specifically with the topic.

Loretta Spivey addressed the youth of the church at a special meeting on Thursday night at the Southampton Seventh Day Adventist church where she focussed on the information in her book Straight Talk...How Teens Make Wise Decisions about Love and Sex.

The wife and mother said the key to teenagers abstaining from sex was in them setting themselves goals.

"If you have a goal, everything you do has to help you reach that goal,'' she said.

A firm believer in the concept that "what you put in, is what you get out'', Mrs. Spivey stressed the importance of focusing on the positive.

"It is important to fill your mind with good things, because what is in your mind will determine your actions,'' she said.

"If the books you read, the music you play and what you watch on TV are filled with the wrong messages, then it will not be surprising that will be what you act out.

"We like to think that we can read whatever we want, listen to whatever we want and watch whatever on TV and that it won't have an impact,'' she added.

"But that is just not true. If it was, billions of dollars would not be spent on advertising.'' Mrs. Spivey said she would be telling people to "guard every area and make choices that will put them in the direction they want to go''.