California was also one of the first states to permit the sale of Plan B over-the-counter without an age limit. Plan B, the so-called "morning-after pill," is another big factor contributing to the increase in sexually transmitted infections. STIs soared in the British Isles when Plan B was made available without prescription in 2000.
California public healh officials knew this, and did it anyway.
Here's what we're looking at, people:
"I'm 13 and I have untreatable gonorrhea" debuts on MTV.
Along with the increase in sexually transmitted infections, there has also been a striking increase in the suicide rates among young people. UCLA psychiatrist Dr. Miriam Grossman has argued that promiscuity is the root cause of much depression. She believes the promiscuity-depression-suicide link is being ignored by doctors who fail to caution students about the dangers of the "hook-up" culture.
In a context of soaring rates of cephalosporin-resistant gonorrhea (and cephalosporin was the last line of defense), I suppose suicide looks, not like a problem, but like a solution. No more disease-transmission. No more disease! No more adolescents. No more childbirth! Voilà!