DEAR ABBY: About 15 years ago, you wrote a column telling girls how to answer boys who asked them to prove their love by committing fornication, which is a sin. 

Many teen-age girls cut that column out and carried it in their purses. Today's sex education makes it seem OK for teen-age girls to have sex as long as they "love" the boy. I wish you would reprint that column. It is badly needed now. 

--WASHINGTON, N.J.

DEAR N.J.: Here it is:

Girls need to "prove their love" through illicit sex relations like a moose needs a hat rack. 

Why not prove your love by sticking your head in the oven and turning on the gas? Or playing leapfrog out in the traffic? It's about as safe.

Clear the cobwebs out of your head. Any fellow who asks you to "prove your love" is trying to take you for the biggest, most gullible fool who ever walked. That proving bit is one of the oldest and rottenest lines ever invented!

Does he love you? It doesn't sound like it. Someone who loves you wants whatever is best for you. but now figure it out. He wants you to:

Does that sound as though he wants what's best for you? This is the laugh of the century. He wants what's best for him... he wants a thrill he can brag about at your expense.

Love? Who's kidding whom? A boy who loves a girl would sooner cut off his right arm than hurt her. If you want my opinion, this self-serving so-and-so has already proved that he doesn't love you.

The predictable aftermath of "proofs" of this kind always finds Don Juan tiring of his sport. That's when he drops you, picks up his line and goes casting elsewhere for bigger, and equally silly, fish.

DEAR ABBY