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.
Here is an example of just that very thing. Read over this information and then tell me that. http://pages.nyu.edu/~smh5965/main.html
"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. "
Ok, whatever.
"And there is no way that every other 12 year-old black kid, on a national scale, has an STD."
I won't debate this point since I can't validate the finding of the study.