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Subscribe to RSSJust in time for Valentine’s Day, researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued two new studies of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) today detailing what the lead author of one calls “an ongoing, severe, STI epidemic.”
The studies reveal new infection data, some of it available for the first time, for the eight most common STIs -- chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, herpes, human papillomavirus (HPV), hepatitis B, HIV, and trichomoniasis. The studies, which estimate infection rates and medical costs related to STIs, were published in the journal Sexually Transmitted Diseases.
Both are startling. In 2008, there were 20 million new incidents of infection in the United States, and a prevalence (new infections plus ongoing infection) of 110 million, according to CDC estimates. (Because one person may have more than one infection, the 110 million figure does not mean 110 million people have a sexually transmitted disease.) As a result, the United States incurred estimated direct medical costs of nearly $16 billion.
Previous such estimates, for years 1996 and 2000, estimated approximately 15 million and 18.9 million new incidents respectively, though these reports used somewhat different data sources and methodology so the CDC cautions against making direct comparisons. According to the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, the American Social Health Association, and the CDC, the U.S. has the highest rate of STIs in the industrialized world.
“STIs take a big health and economic toll on men and women in the United States, especially our youth,” CDC epidemiologist Catherine Lindsey Satterwhite, who led the study of incidence and prevalence, told NBC News.
Although people age 15-24 account for only 25 percent of the nation’s sexually experienced population, Satterwhite’s study estimates they account for about half of all sexually transmitted infections.
Because every STI is preventable, Satterwhite argued, “we know that preventing STIs could save the nation billions of dollars each year.”
The story could have been different, insisted Matthew Golden, the director of Public Health Seattle and King County HIV/STD Program and a professor of medicine at the University of Washington Center for AIDS and STD. The good news, he said, is that rates for most viral and bacterial infections, including HIV, have stabilized or even dropped.
The “epidemic” Satterwhite speaks of, he said, is driven almost entirely by two bugs: HPV, and chlamydia. Chlamydia, a bacterial infection, is easily curable if it’s diagnosed. And there’s a very effective vaccine for the most dangerous forms of HPV that can trigger cervical, oral, anal, and penile cancers, and cause genital warts.
But, Golden argued, “we have snatched defeat from the jaws of victory” by not pursuing effective strategies, such as school-based universal access to the HPV vaccine.
Only about 35 percent of American girls age 13-17 had received the complete course of HPV vaccine as of 2011, according to the CDC. The rate among boys was about 28 percent. In comparison, Australia’s National HPV Vaccination Program provides the vaccine to girls at age 12 and 13 through their schools. As a result, 72 percent of girls have received a complete vaccine by age 15. (Boys were added to the program this year.)
Satterwhite’s study estimated 14.1 million new HPV infections during 2008 and a prevalence of 79.1 million, making it the most common STI by far. While the majority of HPV infections are cleared by the body’s immune system, some are not.
“How could we possibly have done this to ourselves?” Golden asked. “We have a solution; we have to make it happen.”
Chlamydia can go undiagnosed if it doesn’t cause symptoms and since many young people are not routinely screened, cases can go untreated. This can result in pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) infertility, and ectopic pregnancies. A 2004 study from CDC epidemiologists and economists estimated that “costs per case of PID, including those associated with acute PID, chronic pelvic pain, ectopic pregnancy and treated infertility, range from $1,060 to $3,626.”
Meanwhile, STI prevention and awareness programs targeting other infections are also critical. For example, Satterwhite estimated 820,000 new gonorrhea infections in 2008. While the U.S. has largely escaped it so far, drug-resistant gonorrhea is slowly spreading around the world. Condoms offer protection against gonorrhea, as well as chlamydia, HPV and other STDs, something to consider before that Valentine’s Day date.
Brian Alexander (www.BrianRAlexander.com) is co-author, with Larry Young Ph.D., of "The Chemistry Between Us: Love, Sex and the Science of Attraction," (www.TheChemistryBetweenUs.com), now on sale.
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Well, if people thought about consequences with the brains in their heads before getting into the moment, maybe there wouldn't be so many STDs. Restraint is a rare quality these days. Sometimes partners barely know each others' names before they are jumping into the sack.
Hardly new, effective birth control has releived a lot of the uptight prudishness about God's greatest gift for the last several generations. STI's are a problem that will be ongoing until people understand the risks, Maybe some sex education more helpful than just say no?
Sex education may help prevent it most of the time, no doubt; however, abstinence would guarantee that no disease would ever occur. Just something to think about.
People who've been given over to a "reprobate mind" don't stop to consider consequences.
h s and college kids screw each other like rabbits. even during the days of the "summer of love" people were far less promiscuous. you reap what you sow!
The CDC does say quote ”The most reliable ways to avoid transmission of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), are to abstain from sexual activity or to be in a long-term mutually monogamous relationship with an uninfected partner.” Also there is a lot of ignorance about condom protection in general. I remember that there is a general 18-2% failure rate stated on the CDC website, they are helpful but as the above quote suggests people should try being smart for once. People should quit trying to take the easy way and actually follow generations of advice and scientific recommendation of monogamy or abstinence. But then people are idiots...
OMG!! It's the next great disease invasion! Ahhhhhhh!! Run- we're all going to catch STD's! Ahhhhh!! First it was H1N1, next the great flu epidemic and now THIS!! When will it end!!??
I heard a guy brag about never using condoms in his life and how he'd only gotten one STD.
Look, people have sex, okay? Not just because they're randy, but mostly just because they're LONELY. Often people think they're in long term relationships that end up being short term. And if you marry the first person you date, then how do you know you've found the right person?
Use condoms. They prevent most STDs, they reduce teen pregnancy, and they cut down on the number of women who die from giving birth because someone was too stuck up to learn about simple contraception.
I am a scientist and I have developed a cure. Stop having sex with anyone bearing the last name Kardashian, and you will be fine.
Keep telling yourself that. The only difference between the two eras was that media has become more universal, meaning you can see it in front of you and hear it on the airwaves. People have been screwing like rabbits for the better part of a century; people keep deluding themselves with the notion that it's a recent phenomenon.
I've been practicing abstinence...It's not by choice, mind you.
18-20% failure rate? It's not even a 5% failure rate!
I used to be promiscuous. It was fantastic...but then I had to be an idiot and settle down. You want to practice abstinence? Get married.
Oh yeah, and I've never had an STD.
Bet ya probably buy alot more than that from craigs list.
There was another study a few months back saying the the largest population of new STD's were people over 50, most had been a long term relationship but one partner strayed without the knowledge of the other. This is not just a proble for young people.
Like the popular Korean dance song says...
DO IT CONDOM STYLE!
Hey sexy lady, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey...DO IT CONDOM STYLE!!!
Just wondering if the Republicans are going to remove these maladies from the covered list of health insurance claims like abortion, since it is preventable and caused by inattention.
Ranman87
What an ignorant statement...but if that's how you rationalize being a slut, it's your life.
RI - I read that one too
Lost - Likewise
azindy - While I fall between Agnostic and Atheist, I still have values that far surpass a lot of Christians, so it may not all be God's doing
Everyone that says everyone is screwing everyone else, you're wrong, there's at least one person out here that is almost 40 and in single digits...by choice. I do agree that the morality of the human race has gone to hell in a handbasket.
Oh please, people have been screwing around FOREVER!
Written historical accounts from many different civilizations speak about contraception, abortion, and sex with many different people. For instance, many of the women of the American Indian tribes went ahead and had sex with the sailors on the conquistadors' ships when they first met. Not a great idea, considering what happens when two members of a species have been separate for thousands of years, leading to biogeographically diverse disease imbalance between the two, but what the hell. The men were all for it. Then, at some point, an RCC priest came over and witnessed the women doing all this. Afterwards, the priest saw them eating a particular kind of berry, which they explained to him that the berry caused them to not be pregnant anymore. The priest was horrified by this, but it was the cultural norm for the Indians.
The Egyptians, Greeks, even women in the medieval period practiced contraception. And, though the priests threw fits if they found out, it was generally accepted that they controlled when they would get pregnant and when not (of course, in the medieval period this was mostly restricted to women who had a noble birth, because with that came the access to the knowledge and medicines they needed). This is all recorded history.
In New England (a.k.a. Puritanland), there are thousands of tiny little graves dug around old houses and buildings. These were children that were born to women in secret and then killed. It was all hush-hush because if the community found out, the woman could at the least find herself shunned ala The Scarlet Letter, at most found herself raped and killed. Hence, Puritans should be reviled as among the most vile, barbaric societies to have existed. Their ontological descendants in the US, the fundamentalist Christians, seem to wish to carry on the tradition of grinding their women down into the ground, forcing them to forgo their most basic needs and desires, and taking away their autonomy completely.
Now, THAT'S cradle-to-grave community building right there.
Look at the popular culture in US - it is all about sex. I'm surprised things are not even worse than they are.
Think of all the people who get diagnosed but don't inform their sexual partners. Also, I've heard that people who have casual sex use condoms more than those in monogamous relationships because people in monogamous relationships don't believe their partner will cheat. WRONG! Condoms should be used regardless....
I mean, Trojan's made the thinnest condom ever and there are really fancy ones out there with which to explore....
Also, men don't get symptoms for HPV like women do so I believe men care less about it, even though women end up paying that price.
Also, Europeans gave Native Americans small pox and syphilis. Diseases just spring up in dense populations. Nothin you can do except STOP HAVING KIDS. 7 billion people is way too many. Might have to start colonizing on Antarctica at this rate. Maybe we can annex it? Probs will have to fight the UK for it...
Condoms = Safe Sex. Yea whatever. Its not a matter of if, just when you'll get pregnant or an STD if you rely on condoms.
Or we can improve medical care... The therapeutic being developed at MIT will most likely be effective against Herpes and other viral-based STDs.
I'm trying to raise awareness of their work so I wrote an article explaining it and also the molecular biology behind it (in everyday language)...
MIT and the Demise of the Viral Infection
http://blog.readingthinkingandwriting.com/?p=500
Oh you mean just like the smokers that OBAMAcare penalizes for doing something thats ALSO preventable???
Radical Centrist: If calling humans who touch each other in a loving way (rather than killing each other) sluts is your way of deflecting from the fact that you haven't the intelligence to come up with a logical argument, (i.e. you're dumb) then hey, it's your life.
Condoms have been and continue to be the best defense against unwanted pregnency, HIV infection and almost all other STDs and people not using them are being fools.
People not recommending them are being ridiculous and dishonest, they "don't get any" (and think it's by their choice when in fact it's by everyone else's) and secretly are bitter about it so they wish STDs, totally preventable diseases, on those who do "get some". Your prudishness and bitterness will NEVER, I repeat NEVER, stop humans from loving and touching other humans in a healthy way and due to the fact that we can't know what someone else has done, we MUST ALWAYS wrap it up otherwise we are damaging ourselves and society on the whole.
The porn industry must go back to using condoms in films because what people see as sexy is increasingly tied to what porn producers put in movies, they must get it together so that people with healthy sex lives may remain healthy and those who choose abstinence should close their mouths about the subject. After all, they might catch a stray d##k by mistake.
Condoms are the Devil's sleeve!
It's more than enough time to remember that "Abstinence makes the heart grow fonder."
There are more wonders wrought in this world than sextecting can begin to dream of. (apologies to Alfred Lloyd Tennyson)
Just say no to condoms.
If she gets pregnant it is her fault for having sex with someone else. That
never gets old!
People were having sex even before birth control. They were
not married and there were lot of STD and unwanted kids. This has been a
problem forever.
Wear a condom and save a child’s life.
You are an idiot.
Dang Snooky. Hey, free hookups everybody! Its fun fun fun...
Happy VD! And Happy Valentines Day too.
The pill, the pill, the pill!!! Sandra Flukes must have THE PILL – and for free. Guess what? It doesn't prevent STDs. Duh. Sooooooooooo unfair!!! BAN STDs.
It doesn't even necessarily solve the problem of unwanted pregnancies. They tried giving out free contraceptives in South Africa once. It didn't work.
argument, the men didn't allow the women to use them...
Ah yes, Patrick93, that infamous "war against women" which I thought was here in the United States (note sarcasm).
Last BS I heard was a televised report that apparently it's widespread practice in the US that men are deliberately impregnating women so they will have "power" over them. Really? There are that many men out there deliberately knocking up women? Maybe in certain racial/demographic/socio-economic circles...but it was totally a SEXIST roundtable on a talk show on one of the main cable news networks.
Abstinence is the only solution to stop the disease in its' tracks.!
But then no new children will be born.
Abstinence, really? Wow, you sound like fun...
actually, true monogamy in life would stop the spread of STDs.
Proper sex education is the only solution. That and having politicians not forcing their medical and social ignorance on Americans.
Ricard,
Sex ed isn't a solution. We tried that in the liberal states and they only got worse (though I blame the culture, not the sex ed, for that). In the conservative states, we tried the reverse and it got worse (again, I blame culture, not the lack of sex ed). The reality today is that any 13-year-old that doesn't know where babies come from is stupid, and they probably all know what STDs are. The problem is that teens think more with hormones and emotions than with logic. You need a strong fear of a very bad outcome, or strong moral guidelines, to override those hormones and emotions. Seems that pregnancy and STDs aren't a strong enough fear for most kids these days.
Condoms people! Use them!
If you are too embarrassed to purchase them, then you have no business being naked with another person. Amazing that people don't understand a simple thing like a condom could wipe sexually transmitted diseases off the face of the planet.
I agree DarkShadow, but you also must keep in mind: condoms don't necessarily stop the spread of herpes. Herpes can be transmitted through sweat around the groin.
Major mood killer. Thank God I'm in a monogamous relationship.
I agree too, they are not going to stop having sex so it is the best solution and cost affective too. Plus I am in a monogamous relationship too but I don't like the pills/shots any more (I am 41), and I defintely don't want more kids (we have 2) so we use the condoms designed for her. I lovvvve them.
What about oral? It's fun being in a monogamous relationship and commenting on this. Two beautiful children, not afraid of two more. Single people, use protection or you will get burnt worse than Christopher Dorner.
In case you don't know, condoms don't always prevent the spread of STD's. For instance, herpes can be spread even though you use a condom. People can have a condition called "shredding" - meaning they are contagious, yet don't have sores. Still a good idea to use condoms, but better idea to be more judicious about who you sleep with, how often, mitigate multiple partners, etc. If possible, even better that both parties get tested before engaging and communicate. Communication and education is really the key to controlling STD's. IMO
lolo, it is very scary that people don't know that stds are spread outside the condom area, yikes!!!!!!
these are not the ones I would want to end up with, lol.
Morals people! Have them!
If you are only sleeping with your spouse you wont have a problem.
But liberals have turned our schools into porn centers. giving out condoms and sextoys for kids!
Well, it is not that simple. If your spouse is sleeping with other people ( happens a lot now ) then you can be infected by their infidelity. A person may have been infected by an STD that showed no symptoms before getting married and passed it on that way.
The definition of what is moral concerning sex is vary fluid between people, so it is not really that simple.
As a liberal I would like to tell you how sorry I am for screwing up your life, I am sure that liberals are out to get you and yours. Seriously, you need to find another reason for the despair of the country.
Treating sex like it's something people should be ashamed of and not acknowledging that it's going to happen between people who aren't married is as big or bigger than the problem of STD's. People who go untreated, who don't obtain preventative measures out of fear or embarrassment, or who remain uneducated about sex because of social taboos surrounding it create these types of issues; even in this story it's noted that we have measures that should be taking care of things, like the HPV vaccine, but they don't get implemented because of social pressure against anything like this.
Sleeping with just your spouse doesn't protect them from something like the results of not being treated with HPV. It doesn't help with 0-symptom untreated STD's that you could get from a spouse, say, from a 2nd marriage...something that's far more likely if you want to force people into marriage just for sex.
There's more than enough evidence out there that sticking your head in the sand and crying about morals and abstinence is about as effective as voodoo magic to protect from STD's when comparing the data to results from condom provisions and adequate sexual education. Be part of the solution, not part of the problem.
SuperBrain
Teen pregnancies are at an ALL TIME LOW. Perhaps it has something to deal with "birth control OPTIONS?". I hate to tell you this, teenagers are going to have sex regardless of what parents TELL THEM they can and cannot do. At least the Dems back educate children on practicing safer sex.
P.S. Unless you waited until your wedding night.. and so did your spouse, you may have been exposed to an STD.
"P.S. Unless you waited until your wedding night.. and so did your spouse, you may have been exposed to an STD."
Then you should have chosen a better spouse. People of integrity choose people of integrity.
Argumentativebutfair
Did you test drive your last car before you bought it?
Yes. What's your point?
I can't type in crayon, so figure it out...
What is it with this new-age conservatism and blaming everything on "liberals?" Are you that devoid of critical thinking skills that you can't actually figure out why things happen the way they do? Nah, instead we have to create a boogeyman from the opposition of our political tendencies.
Ahh, because we've attempted to keep teen pregnancies and STDs down by showing teenagers how to use condoms, schools are now suddenly "porn centers." Give me a break. They're going to have sex one way or another. It's best you educate them about the the repercussions and consequences of their decisions so they can better prepare themselves for the outcome.
Ignorant bastard.
@Cory: If you need a crayon to make your point, something tells me it's not very convincing.
Hey argumentative, do you normally upvote your own comments?
Yes. What's your point?
Abf
You test drove your car to make sure...
1. You were comfortable driving it.
2. You liked the way it looked on the inside as well as the outside.
3. It could go the distances you were looking to achieve.
4. It did not have to stop every ten minutes to get fuel.
5. It would not rust out and fall apart before the loan was paid in full.
See, that wasn't so hard, was it? But I still fail to see what that has to do with my original comment.
Having premarital sex does not determine one's integrity. A faceless name does not determine my self worth. Who's rules are you following, yours or someone else's?
"Having premarital sex does not determine one's integrity. "
Well you could have made that point without beating around the bush and giving the example, but okay.
But let me clarify: I'm not referring to a lack of integrity by having premarital sex ( although I happen to be against that too, but that would involve a different argument.) I was referring to a breach of integrity by not telling your spouse that you had an STD or that you had slept with other partners, which I thought was what It'sAboutTime was talking about. But I guess that was an unfair assumption on my part.
Abf
You have not answered my question. You are against premarital sex, right? Why? Again, who's rules are you following?
I didn't answer because it wasn't relevant to the discussion we were having, and I just explained to you what I was talking about. Like I said, it would involve a different argument.
argumenativebutfair said, "BEATING AROUND THE BUSH", ha, ha, snort, ha...
(Beavis & Butt Head voices)
Morals? What? Morals can never intercourse with liberal philosophy. It's the same way with conviction's, convictions and liberals don't mix.
I wonder if it has anything to do with plying our pre-teen daughter with birth control pills so they can have unprotected sex without getting pregnant? too bad it does absolutely nothing for STDs, in fact it encourages STDs as pregnancy is really the thing they're scared of.
Kids should ONLY be encouraged to use condoms in our schools, this government mandated pill for every girl should be stopped.
There are no government mandated pills for girls. What are you talking about? I have a girl, I should know.
come on now the boomer's children are into free love as much as their drug addled parents? come on now.
Just because you hate the idea that people are having sex doesn't mean everyone does.
And what are sexually active youth learning: abstinence. Here's another clue for you all, abstinence doesn't work for the pious folks of your churches/synagogues/etc; youth leaders such as coaches, Boy Scout leaders, Cult members, media harpies earning their daily bread, and on and on. Maybe the truth would help if the GOP and Pansy Lindsay Graham would vanish.
Apparently neither does your sex education in schools. Maybe we should remove that from the curriculum because its obviously a waste of money.
The truth is most liberals are in infecting our school children with their philosophy and now they are all starting to act like hoe's. Yet liberals still seem to think that its the church at fault. Afterall, it's not like prayer was allowed back in schools?
When are liberals going to learn the meaning of the phrase" you reap what you sow".
Your name says it all. I am so tired of people talking about "liberals". Let's retire that term already. Anyone who doesn't share your views is a liberal? Doubtful. Maybe just someone with a more reasonable view. We are people who live and work in the real world and understand what works and what doesn't. We have children, currently under our care, and we understand how they think. I'm guessing your children are grown or estranged, or you never had any.
Agarbeau: Pansy Linds[e]y Graham
How self-revealing of you.
"hoes"? I thought a hoe was a garden tool and a whore was a "ho"? I guess total cultural ignorance must be a "tough road to ho" for "all intensive purposes". If this country could box up and sell ignorance and bigotry, we'd have a trade surplus bigger than China and India combined.
Not every girl is a sl*t, there are millions of kids making smart decisions. it's like the people who use cocaine and other hard drugs "everyone does it" no really they don't...
Agarbeau,
If you seriously believe that the 5 youth leaders and boyscout leaders that have been caught having sex and plastered on national TV represent the norm, if you honestly believe that most parochial school locker rooms and church youth centers are filled with sex-addled kids, you're more out of touch than anyone else here. Yes, there are kids that are taught abstinence and don't use it. There are also kids that are taught rampant promiscuity and don't use it. Neither of these are the norm. So, no, not everyone's doing it.
This is disgusting.. that is why I never have sex. I think it's dirty and perverted and just one of the many downfalls of the human species.
And no, I'm not mentally ill or gay or anything, I just think there's just too many of us in this already overcrowded population and I'm glad at least contributing.
And nope, I'm not ugly either, I'm cute and skinny and can get girls anytime but my point is, I'm glad I'm healthy and disease free because I am innocent and clean and never corrupted or violated.
Oh and P.S., sleeping around like that is the ultimate sin in the Bible and guess what? You are all going to Hell.
And no, I'm not trolling, I'm just stating the facts and the truth and sometimes truth can hurt~ Have a nice day sickos! ^_^
Well, I guess if it is a sin, then we are all in a no win situation anyway. If sex is a sin and everyone thought it was and used that as a reason to not have sex, then no one would be here to worry about STDs.
You should read the bible more, since it dose not say that all sex is a sin.
You are vary free to find sex disgusting, and you are vary free to not contribute DNA to the human race, but the "sin" happens, and will likely continue for a long time to come.
francis......lighten up
John
It's ok. Some day, someone will want to have sex with you... Just go to church and apply for an alter boy position, you will get all of the unwanted sex you could ever imagine.
COry, what a totally bigoted, inflammatory (and unnecessay) post.
A**hole.
Breakmeoffapieceofthatkitkatbar
Inflammatory, yes. Bigoted, no. Necessary (not necessay) no. Free to say what I wish, priceless.
Oh, great, even the Center for Disease Control (CDC) agrees that the worst epidemic infection spreading across our nation, is the "Obmanation" (screwing) of all taxpayers! {:-)}
That has been happening under every president since the 20th century began. If you think that being financially bent over is a new thing brought to you only by dems, you should read and ingest more history. It really is fascinating how both dems and reps have done their share of bending the tax payer over.
EVERY article contains a comment about the president by an idiot.
I would love to have sex but im terrified of stds, so this fear forces me to stay a virgin.
Good for you. It was not fear that kept me clean for as long as I did, but ambition for more important things and belief in moral absolutes. Doesn't mean I didn't want it, and badly at times. Few people want to say it, but irresponsibilty with your privates is a sin. When a young man who can/will barely take care of himself screws up a young lady's life with either a pregnancy or a sterilizing or life-threatening STD, that's a sin. Kudos to you for keeping your hormones from getting the better of you. I hope you find the right person to share yourself with.
I'm sure....
Lookin for nub in all the wong places lookin for nub
WTH isa nub?
in ah da wong paces!
Morlack, you may be too young to remember. It's old Saturday Night Live. Eddie Murphy.
Buckwheat!!
Ohhhhh Tay...
Mike.D34
I wonder if it has anything to do with plying our pre-teen daughter with birth control pills so they can have unprotected sex without getting pregnant? too bad it does absolutely nothing for STDs, in fact it encourages STDs as pregnancy is really the thing they're scared of.
Kids should ONLY be encouraged to use condoms in our schools, this government mandated pill for every girl should be stopped.
Umm people have sex when they want to have sex. Simply having access to birth control does not suddenly make one want to have sex. It is possible to have access to birth control and still educate people about safe sex at the same time. Im sorry but the desire to have sex is completely independent from having access to birth control.
Must be Obama's fault...
It's because the Catholic Church won't allow so many people access to contraceptives.
What do contraceptives have to do with preventing STDs?
Mike
That makes no sense.
Funny, I learned in Nursing School that CONDOMS are contraceptives (you know, birth control). I was also taught they can aid in preventing STDs.
argumentativebutfair..
AAAHAHAHHAHAAAA!!! I get your joke (or at least I HOPE you were joking)
condems lol
Only safe sex is no sex. Do you know where your partner has been/will be?
would hang out with you if i got paid. go get laid. ohhh thats right you couldnt do that if you where somewhat goodlooking
Obviously most of you don't deal with youngsters. I do. Condoms must be used 100% of the time. What kid do you know does anything 100% of the time? They know what is going on. They don't care because a shot will fix whatever they get. Even AIDS is not scary anymore because drugs can extend lifespans for decades. So libs, you thought sex ed and condoms would work. It didn't. Everyone has access to both. Look at the results.
Youngsters?
What worked on me as a teen...When our 9th grade health teacher showed pictures (full frontal) of people who had venereal disease, full of scabs, oozing puss, etc. As well as on their tongues and mouths. I didn't even see those type of pictures in Nursing School.
I was so grossed out.
I put off having sex longer than average (18) and I use condoms %100 of the time. Unless I'm in a monogamous relationship and we both have been tested and found disease free.
people have got to stop going to christina aguilera's pool parties!
Hey dub
Don't judge me, she said she had only been with one other guy. She showed me her WhoreFax and it was clean. What's a guy supposed to do?
Young dumbassess! If people had to be RESPONCIBLE AND PAY FOR THEIR medical treatment when they get an STD instead of insurance or the gubmint...
Maybe then they'd think twice before fooling around or at least use a condom!
STUPID STUPID STUPID and irresponcible fools who think they should get to do anything they feel like and have no clue the consequences for birth defects or infertility! IDIOTS - and it's not like they don't have accesss to birthcontrol.. too lazy ....or they just don't care! SHAME ON THEM!!!
ONE MORE THING... YOU ONLY GET ONE BODY.... RESPECT IT AND YOURSELF!!
Learn to spell before you post
rose, zip it. shame on you for that kind of post. respect your body i would hate to see yours
Yes, all that healthcare money should be used on foreign aid.
kids banging at 13 years old. wow. put a condom on for f### sakes
For those of you with children, please check out "Teen Sex, The Rules Have Changed" by Dr. Meg Meeker. As a teacher, I had to watch this with my class and all I could think of were the words of Jesus as He carried His cross, "Weep not for me, but weep for yourselves and weep for your children". He OBVIOUSLY could see down the path. I shudder to think of what my 2-yr old grandson is in for.
Teens have been having sex since before the Bible was written. They will continue to have sex until the world ends. The best you can do is teach them to be responsible.
The "so called" religious ones are often the biggest "offenders".
Rush Limbaugh thinks that condoms only prevent babies from being conceived. Catholics think this same thing. Though I'm sure the typical religious zealot like you will say that it's god's will for disease to spread. These are just the types of people that cause the continual spread of disease. They're not the only ones, but they're a great example. Thanks for being so naive.
Beth, you want the real problem? We've tried to artificially extend childhood into adulthood. Teens have been having sex (and kids) since before the Bible was written, true, but then they were considered adults at the time. At 15, both boys and girls are biologically programmed for some pretty adult things. They used to be able to handle those things pretty well. Not anymore.
Left, you may want to try actually LISTENING to what someone says before assuming you know it already. You do know what happens when you ASSUME, right?
Science and nature say 'no' to random, multiple partners...
Yes, but peer pressure and Pabst Blue Ribbon say otherwise...
But Hollywood and Television City say yes......If its not psycho killers then its sluts in the city and sitcoms where everything out of their mouths is a lie and more lies to cover the previous lies etc....It really is a bewb tube