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Sexual Health Quiz
Concerned Parents ^

Posted on 05/30/2008 1:04:26 PM PDT by Sopater

How much do you know about contraception, STDs, and unintended pregnancies? Take the quiz...


TOPICS: Education; Society
KEYWORDS: abstinence; contraception; std
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1 posted on 05/30/2008 1:04:26 PM PDT by Sopater
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To: Sopater

My score was 66%.


2 posted on 05/30/2008 1:09:46 PM PDT by wastedyears (Like a bat outta Hell.)
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To: Sopater

Cool, I aced it. Had to guess on a couple though.


3 posted on 05/30/2008 1:12:03 PM PDT by Always Right (Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?)
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To: wastedyears

I got 100%, but admit that I guessed at a couple.


4 posted on 05/30/2008 1:12:16 PM PDT by Sopater (A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left. ~ Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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Their answer to question #3 is wrong. This is an advocacy site no? Why do they think it is OK to lie?

http://www.metrokc.gov/health/APU/std/condomefficacy.htm

5 posted on 05/30/2008 1:13:41 PM PDT by allmendream (Life begins at the moment of contraception. ;))
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To: Sopater

Your first selected answer was correct 15 out of 15 times


6 posted on 05/30/2008 1:18:00 PM PDT by Rightly Biased (Courage is not the lack of fear it is acting in spite of it<><)
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To: allmendream
Why do they think it is OK to lie?

How so? I can't follow the link, but I certainly wouldn't go to King County, WA for sexual education information. They are one of the most liberal counties in the country and an advocacy site themselves.
7 posted on 05/30/2008 1:23:57 PM PDT by Sopater (A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left. ~ Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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Their answer to question #3 is wrong. This is an advocacy site no? Why do they think it is OK to lie?

Because, as with so many issue groups, they try to make everything black or white when in reality the world has many shades of gray. The asked a true/false question, but the correct answer is really "somewhat". Condoms do help prevent some STDs; they're not perfect, but they're better than nothing. But that answer wouldn't fit into the all-or-nothing, easy-sound-bite way policy discussions are conducted in our dumbed-down, simplistic society.

8 posted on 05/30/2008 1:25:39 PM PDT by mngran2
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To: Sopater
Sexual Health Quiz

Sex?...Health?...Quiz?...

Don't know too much about sex however I feel pretty good physically and am happy mentally until I have to take a quiz. ; )

9 posted on 05/30/2008 1:27:09 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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Did well, but I don’t think 50 of teenagers will have some sort of STD by the time they are 25. Seems too high.


10 posted on 05/30/2008 1:34:17 PM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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93% I missed one but had to think about two or three others.


11 posted on 05/30/2008 1:59:22 PM PDT by oldenuff2no
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Here is the direct text from the study that these guys cited showing that condoms offered no protection against STDs.

These people aren't being honest.

http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/research/topics/STI/pdf/condomreport.pdf

The published data documenting effectiveness of the male condom were strongest for HIV. The Panel concluded that, based on a meta-analysis of published studies “always” users of the male condom significantly reduced the risk of HIV infection in men and women. These data provided strong evidence for the effectiveness of condoms in preventing HIV transmission in both men and women who engage in vaginal intercourse.

The Panel also concluded that the consistency of findings across four epidemiological studies of gonorrhea indicated that the latex male condom could reduce the risk of gonorrhea for men.

The strongest evidence for potential effectiveness of condoms on other STDs transmitted by genital secretions (i.e. gonorrhea in women, chlamydial infection and trichomoniasis) was the laboratory-based studies on the properties of the male latex condom and the strength of the evidence for condom use reducing the risk of HIV transmission in men and women and gonorrhea in men. The Panel concluded, however, that because of limitations in study designs there was insufficient evidence from the epidemiological studies on these diseases to draw definite conclusions about the effectiveness of the latex male condom in reducing the transmission of these diseases.

Conclusions on Genital Ulcer Diseases

The Panel agreed that the published epidemiologic data were insufficient to draw meaningful conclusions about the effectiveness of the latex male condom to reduce the risk of transmission of genital ulcer diseases (genital herpes, syphilis and chancroid).

Conclusions on HPV

For HPV, the Panel concluded that there was no epidemiologic evidence that condom use reduced the risk of HPV infection, but study results did suggest that condom use might afford some protection in reducing the risk of HPV-associated diseases, including warts in men and cervical neoplasia in women.

12 posted on 05/30/2008 2:00:12 PM PDT by CaspersGh0sts
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They are sourcing a NIH study, it was the first thing I found that had an actual study behind it.


13 posted on 05/30/2008 2:08:46 PM PDT by allmendream (Life begins at the moment of contraception. ;))
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To: SeaHawkFan

Moreover the data they sourced doesn’t support that contention.


14 posted on 05/30/2008 2:10:18 PM PDT by allmendream (Life begins at the moment of contraception. ;))
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To: Sopater

14 out of 15 Only one I missed was an *all of the above* question.


15 posted on 05/30/2008 2:24:40 PM PDT by wolfcreek (I see miles and miles of Texas....let's keep it that way.)
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Here is the direct text from the study that these guys cited showing that condoms offered no protection against STDs.

Actually, the question was "Condoms prevent the transmission of the most common STD’s."

There is a big difference between "don't prevent" and "offered no protection". Although using condoms reduces the risk, there is no documented proof that they "prevent" STDs.
16 posted on 05/30/2008 2:39:32 PM PDT by Sopater (A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left. ~ Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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Moreover the data they sourced doesn’t support that contention.

The contention is that:
A U.S. Government study released reveals no proof that condoms prevent the transmission of the most common STDs, including gonorrhea, chlamydial infection, trichomoniasis, genital herpes, syphilis, chancroid, and HPV-associated diseases. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Health, Department of Health and Human Services.
They are referring to a study that indicates that there is no proof that condoms prevent the transmission of STDs.
17 posted on 05/30/2008 2:45:42 PM PDT by Sopater (A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left. ~ Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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To: allmendream

The answer is correct and the information at your link confirms it.


18 posted on 05/30/2008 3:02:25 PM PDT by TigersEye (Berlin 1936. Olympics for murdering regimes. Beijing 2008.)
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The published data documenting effectiveness of the male condom were strongest for HIV. The Panel concluded that, based on a meta-analysis of published studies “always” users of the male condom significantly reduced the risk of HIV infection in men and women. These data provided strong evidence for the effectiveness of condoms in preventing HIV transmission in both men and women who engage in vaginal intercourse.

From the study you linked.


19 posted on 05/30/2008 3:50:06 PM PDT by allmendream (Life begins at the moment of contraception. ;))
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“There is a big difference between “don’t prevent” and “offered no protection.”

And we have another deficient reader in the crowd. Or quite a bit of wool pulled over the eyes.


20 posted on 05/30/2008 4:25:36 PM PDT by CaspersGh0sts
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