Posted on 03/27/2013 6:16:55 PM PDT by thecodont
(CNSNews.com) - According to new data released by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were 19.7 million new venereal infections in the United States in 2008, bringing the total number of existing sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the U.S. at that time to 110,197,000.
The 19.7 million new STIs in 2008 vastly outpaced the new jobs and college graduates created in the United States that year or any other year on record, according to government data. The competition was not close.
The STI study referenced by the CDC estimated that 50 percent of the new infections in 2008 occurred among people in the 15-to-24 age bracket. In fact, of the 19,738,800 total new STIs in the United States in 2008, 9,782,650 were among Americans in the 15-to-24 age bracket.
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BUMP
like they care what parents think
More likely a large percentage get cured and then go right out and get it again.
I hear you can catch gonorrhea from riding a tractor.
I STILL DON’T BELIEVE IT!
It is interesting to note that in the story I didn’t see anything about the homosexuals and how much they account for. In the past I have read about 65%. Keep in mind this is about 1.5% of the population.
“Or, on the other hand, why not humans marrying their animals?”
They already exist....those who mount animals are called Taxidermists.
I believe one individual can have multiple occurences of sexualy transmitted diseases. The number may seem high but STD’s are much more common than people believe. They are never shown in the media or the news.
Certain geographic areas and ethnic groups have far higher rates than average. Washington D.C. leads the country in STD’s. The other areas are predictable.
I would not be surprised if LSM journalists intentionally failed to report on those facts. Some demographic groups can't be portrayed in a negative light, in their view.
I can’t think of a more clear cut case for banning genitals. They are killing our children. In particular, we need to ban the assault genitals. You know, the one with extra attachments, the big scary ones and the ones with camo.
Probably need to ban the ammo clips as well.
And why is marriage restricted to a single person / critter / plant / inanimate object? Maybe some people have enough love for multiple husbands and multiple wives at the same time. These antiquated Victorian Norma have to go. < /lib>
Is pelvic organ prolapse an STD? I really don’t know what it is, but every time I hear those commercials I cringe.
But they’re mounting animals in a nice way.
Many of today’s practitioners of sex today are doing so strictly on instinct. Why it’s mere instinct that causes a homosexual to jump on the backside of his partner in order to stick his pee-pee in the other’s poo-poo.
And that isn’t all. Usually their activity they call love ends up with the one partner shoving his head up the other’s backside, then licking off the dipstick. And they wonder why they get sick and die of AIDs.
This is the beautiful thing they call love and they want to get married like normal sane people so their kids, allowed to be adopted by two sick perverts, will feel like they have two parents.
Actually, the study included two more diseases than the ones I mentioned (hepatitis B and one I never heard of).
But the thing that puts the number way up is including HPV — it has a decades long latency period during which there are no symptoms, but it can be passed on, is not just sexually transmissible (besides vertical transmission from mother to child, there are documented cases of transmission by sharing clothing in the medical literature, and unlike every other STD, clinically significant viral loads can be recovered from surfaces in public restrooms — it may be the only STD for which the old lame ‘I must have gotten it from a toilet seat’ might actually be true, though unlike the transmission by sharing clothing there are no documented cases of this), being viral it is never cured (though it’s usually asymptomatic rather than actually causing genital warts, unless in women it causes abnormalities in a pap smear or, if not caught by that, cervical cancer) and (also unlike other STDs) the very high transmission rate during sexual activity is not decreased significantly by condom use.
Pretty much everyone who’s ever committed fornication, and even a lot of folks who saved themselves for marriage and have been faithful ever since have HPV.
The study is behind a paywall from a commercial scientific journal, so I couldn’t see what the numbers would be if you excluded HPV. I suspect those numbers would be much closer to the intuition you have that’s causing your disbelief.
Obviously the key is more sex weeks at colleges and more sex ed in the high schools. The kids should get free birth control and more lessons on how to put a condom on a cucumber. (/sarc)
Seriously, I might sound like a Christian whacko in today’s society, but if everyone waited until marriage, these STDs would die out.
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You are most certainly NOT a whacko.
That's just common sense. And (borrowing from another thread), common sense is so uncommon these days, it counts as a superpower.
You are most certainly NOT a whacko.
That's just common sense. And (borrowing from another thread), common sense is so uncommon these days, it counts as a superpower.
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