Quarter of U.S. teen girls have sex-related disease

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http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNe ... 5320080311

Erg. Thats so...GROSS. Thankfully I am not one of these...Precocious Teenage girls.

*condom*

Check!

This story is also featured in the Daily Rotten News. Any rotteneers here?

They made their bed, now they should lie on it.

Maybe girls should keep their pants on. (I am BLUNT) Or at least use condoms/STD prevention. (If you're going too have sex look up prevention stuff. DUH!) I am not a precocious individual so I cannot really sympathize with these girls. Anyone else agree STD's are

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I read the article while in the library and I just had to chuckle...thinking about all of the girls who are "supposed" to have an STD now.

Well, it nicely sorts out the wheat from the chaff, doesn't it. If you can't be bothered to at least take proper precautions with the thing you're going to stick your private parts into then I have no sympathy for you.

I can't help but think that this has something to do with abstinance only sex "education" promoted by our idiot in chief. Real eduction would cover how to avoid infection.

What about the rate for guys?

How do we know that they're not just contracting herpes from toilet seats? Is pregnancy counted as an STD? I'm just curious to see how the stats are made up. It said that the actual number is higher because they didn't count gonorrhea, syphilis, and
HIV.

The only ones I feel sorry for are non slu*ty rape victims and maybe the ones that got it from toilet seats. I hated how that article made it sound like infertility is a bad thing.

I got a few comments.

1. They mention that 48% of black teenage girls have STDs compared to 20% of white teenage girls. That seems racist.

2. The most common STD was human papilloma virus (HPV). I didn't know it was an STD. I never heard of it until I read that Texas is forcing girls to get it and then on a vaccine commercial urging people to get it. The new HPV vaccine is supposed to reduce the chance of getting cervical cancer from HPV although I read that the drug company who makes it decided not to test their vaccine for carcinogenicity which means the vaccine that is supposed to protect against cancer may actually cause cancer itself. The manufacturer is also not responsible for any harm it causes thanks to a special law the vaccine manufacturers got their politicians in DC to pass. That means you aren't allowed to sue if the vaccines puts you in the hospital, causes a chronic disabling disease, or kills you. I'm definitely staying away from it. The article sound more like a drug company advertisement for their new HPV vaccine.

3. Why are STDs so common? Were they a problem 50 or 100 years ago? If not, someone needs to do some research to determine why they suddenly became a problem. Did people use condoms more often 50 years ago compared to now? They seem to be a new disease, like AIDS, or a rapidly increasing problem, like infertility which all interestingly help the population control agenda although apparently not very effectively.

4. abstinance = 100% protection. If you don't have sex, you can't get an STD. They need to teach this in school. Many people seem to think you can't get STDs or HIV if you use a condom. "Safe sex" education (as opposed to abstinance) taught in schools seems to encourage teenagers to have sex which results in STDs. I'm guessing that the majority of the 1 in 4 teen girls with STDs used condoms thinking it would protect them against STDs. They are also at risk for HIV although I think it's quite rare for it to be transmitted sexually.

A lot of judgment around here, geez. These are kids that may have serious issues that cause them to be careless, self-destructive or unable to say no. This is an Aspie forum and there are threads here about issues Aspie females have with sexuality and being able to "say no" or dating abusive partners. The study says that there is a confusion among the girls about what "having sex" really means. To say that uneducated and ignorant children "deserve" this is terrible. And we're not even scratching the surface of girls that were victims of incest and molestation.

HPV is so common that it's thought that anywhere from 60-70, to possibly 90% of women have this. It's almost always symptom free and men can't be tested for it, though they carry it. Some people believe that it isn't necessarily sexually transmitted and we know that condoms can't always prevent the spread of it. Because it's so common, doctors assume that girls have it and don't screen for it until after 30 years of age.

STDs have always been a problem. I had older relatives that were born "ret*d" because their dad brought home syphillis from the war. Syphillus was widespread and years ago was treated with mercury.

Zendell, this study is just further evidence that the abstinence only sex ed is FAILING. When you teach abstinence only, you don't discuss the realities of STDs and pregnancies. That's a fact. Teaching safe sex can curb promiscuity because teenagers are actually being informed of their options by people they might trust. Not just learning all the playground mythology about sex.

Teen Pregnancies are up after 15 years.

If 25% of teenage girls are getting STDs, then apparently, there must be about the same corresponding amount in teenage boys since they couldn't get it from thin air. What's with all the slut-shaming lately?