[Don Myers]

"Regardless of any statistics out there, I am quite certain that a vast majority of 13 or 14 year olds have not had sexual intercourse, and the ones that have, probably had one partner. So where did the STDs come from? "

Yes, there has to be a point of origin for the STDs. But the STDs are also spread by oral sex, not just intercourse. That is what we are talking about here, right?

"The girls didn't get the STD because they were perfroming oral sex on a boy, they got it because they were perfroming oral sex on a boy who obviously had had sex before, with an infected person."

I think that you are splitting hairs here. STDs are common among the sexually promiscuous. And, there is no way of telling who has what.

STDs are very common in our society among the sexually promiscuous of all age groups. I understand that something like 47 percent of black dudes over the age of 11 have STDs. That is something that I picked up from another thread a month or so ago. Notice the age given in the stat.

[biblewonk]

I understand that something like 47 percent of black dudes over the age of 11 have STDs.

That sounds like a line some dad told his white daughter.

[yendu bwam]

With the AIDS crisis, it's been little noticed that there's a huge increase in VD of all sorts (much of it untreatable) in the past 20 years - it's really an epidemic. A lot of women are becoming sterile from it, and don't even know it. Many others will come down with cervical cancer later in their lives.

[FreeTally]

Yes, there has to be a point of origin for the STDs. But the STDs are also spread by oral sex, not just intercourse. That is what we are talking about here, right?

Somebody originally got it from (most likely)sexual intercourse with an older person, otherwise, It would be difficult to explain how the boys transmitted it to the girls. One thing the story doesn't go into is that it is not common or very likely that a boy got an STD from a girl who was going down on him. Its very rare that STDs are transmitted simply through saliva.

STDs are very common in our society among the sexually promiscuous of all age groups.

Yes, but assuming that most young people's first sexual encounter is with someone their age or very close, I guarantee that the "point of origin" is those youngsters who have sex with a young adult - someone in their late teens or early twenties. You dont get an STD epidemic from a bunch of 13 or 14 year old who are just having sex with each other.

I understand that something like 47 percent of black dudes over the age of 11 have STDs.

I have to really doubt that statistic. Just simply looking at the number, you would have to have certain areas where every black over eleven has an STD. I don't quite buy that. And there is no way that every other 12 year-old black kid, on a national scale, has an STD.