STDs in L.A. County are skyrocketing. Officials think racism and stigma may be to blame

LA Times ^ | May 7, 2018 | Soumya Karlamangla

[C19fan]

he teenagers tucked their hands into their sweatshirt pockets as they shuffled to form a circle. Some gazed at the asphalt, trying to avoid the game they had been drafted to play.

“It’s like hot potato/musical chairs, but with a penis,” said the girl leading the group.

The kids gathered on a spring morning in South Los Angeles were about to get a hands-on lesson in sex education.

Many health experts say that public health problems are best tackled outside the doctor’s office — that fixing the culture that perpetuates them is more effective than changing a single patient’s behavior. For sexual health, that means combating the stigma around sex.

[a fool in paradise]

Planned Parentood is antiabstinence as is the CDC.

[fwdude]

Have any of these idiots stopped to realize that unwanted pregnancies and rampant STD infections didn't skyrocket until AFTER contraception became so popular, legal and normalized?

[arthurus]

I suspect that the flood of illegal aliens has something to do with this.

[arthurus]

Liberal mindset is to do whatever makes you feel good and and all that prattle about some "future" is a damnable lie just made up to keep us from having fun.

[VTenigma]

They don’t teach that stuff in “health class” anymore. The emphasis is on butt sex and the lesbian equivalent.

[Vigilanteman]

He’s in heaven and I followed his advice. Married to the same woman 34 years and counting. Three children in four and a half years (had to stop due to her medical issues), five grandchildren and still counting.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Can you say criminal aliens, children?
No?
Then can you say crimaliens?

[fwdude]

“Stigma” = “it’s OUR fault”

[Yaelle]

I don’t even understand #6.

[fwdude]

Same here, not counting herpes (cold sores) which are doubtfully classified as STD’s.

[Yaelle]

You think STDs are out of control in L.A. County. How about TDS?

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Time to invent some small piece of latex to put on people who might expose others to TDS.

[DungeonMaster]

So many false prophets in the world!

[Jeff Chandler]

Wow, I made it to 50 without a single veneral disease.

That's racist!

[Jeff Chandler]

One boy said he hadn’t known he could get STDs from anal sex.

Why, because the rectum is so darn clean?

Statements such as these tend to make me think racism is not the culprit. Rather it's a combination of poor impulse control, a corrupt, enabling culture, and low IQ.

[EdnaMode]

Personal choices and behavior are racist?

[Trillian]

I blame it on leftists and their love of the genital jamboree.

[Trillian]

I think they’re talking about needing weed for their ritual with strangers.

[fwdude]

On the whole, people were never healthier than when "racism and stigma," as defined by the left, were at their highest.

How do they explain that?