U.S. Sets Record in Sexual Disease Cases — No Sex Education Makes USA Number One — Hooray!

Published on November 13th, 2007

U.S. Sets Record in Sexual Disease Cases — So much for killing sex education in the schools. If you look into it, these diseases were on a downward trend until about the year 2000. What changed?

More than 1 million cases of chlamydia were reported in the United States last year — the most ever reported for a sexually transmitted disease, federal health officials said Tuesday. “A new U.S. record,” said Dr. John M. Douglas Jr. of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

More bad news: Gonorrhea rates are jumping again after hitting a record low, and an increasing number of cases are caused by a “superbug” version resistant to common antibiotics, federal officials said Tuesday.

Syphilis is rising, too. The rate of congenital syphilis — which can deform or kill babies — rose for the first time in 15 years.

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# 1 Mister Mustard said, on November 13th, 2007 at 6:16 pm

Yeah, baby. Abstinince only. Mission accomplished! Heckuva job!

This can be Dumbya’s legacy….he made America the NUMBER ONE PLACE to catch the clap.

# 2 moss said, on November 13th, 2007 at 6:39 pm

Please don’t leave out the ever-willing legion of activist Xhristians, dude. They’re working at it – 24/7-365 – whether there’s a schmuck in the White House or not.

The morality and family values crowd would take this planet all the way back to the Black Plague if they could.

# 3 Mister Mustard said, on November 13th, 2007 at 6:56 pm

>>Please don’t leave out the ever-willing legion of activist
>>Xhristians, dude.

I know plenty of activist “Xhristians”, dude. And they’re not the anti-sex, self-loathing, meth-and-man ass freaks that you’re referring to. Dude. They’re activists for civil rights, fighters against poverty, distributors of condoms and proponents of sex education, prison reform, equal housing, environmental sensibility, etc.

Only here in the steamy confines of dvorak dot org slash blog is every Christian a money-grubbing, self-serving, sexually deviant control freak.

Just as not all Atheists are Mao or Pol Pot, not all Christians are Jimmy Swaggart or Ted Haggard.

# 4 Robert S Hedin said, on November 13th, 2007 at 7:30 pm

Not all Christians are money-grubbing, self-serving, sexually deviant control freaks….

True. But most believe in a fairy tale.

# 5 Rob said, on November 13th, 2007 at 7:45 pm

#3 is correct for the most part. But this is a direct result of the backwards thinking by people with direct influence on our government and society.

Who ignore reality , facts, trends and truth because it does not fit into their misplaced trust and sheepish following of the ” money-grubbing, self-serving, sexually deviant control freak.” and I might add hypocritical louts. Or they are poorly educated or both.

On another note I wounder witch religious leader is going to come or should I say C*M up with th clap and syphilis.

I am a Xhristian …… So let it be written.

# 6 bill said, on November 13th, 2007 at 8:01 pm

Another legacy of the Catholic Church… Condoms are evil! Probably washing your hands is also. Makes me wonder why I’m a Catholic.

# 7 Mister Mustard said, on November 13th, 2007 at 8:03 pm

>>True. But most believe in a fairy tale.

A fairy tale to the unenlightened, perhaps; to those whose eyes are blinded by their dogmatism. Kind of like the former fairy tale that the earth revolves around the sun.

# 8 Greg Allen said, on November 13th, 2007 at 8:14 pm

>>Kind of like the former fairy tale that the earth revolves around the sun.

Or the bigger fair tale that atheists are objective.

# 9 ChrisMac said, on November 13th, 2007 at 8:22 pm

no theist can be objective…

# 10 MikeN said, on November 13th, 2007 at 8:24 pm

Yeah, I guess this is all the fault of teaching kids not to have sex.

# 11 Libertican said, on November 13th, 2007 at 8:37 pm

Without defending christians, is this the only correlation that you guys can come up with? STD’s are up, blame the uber-political ’sex is naughty’ crowd. I may be wrong, but I don’t think STD increases can be blamed on the promiscuous bible thumper’s daughter. Condoms are falling from the sky in most urban centers and how to wrap a cucumber instructions were pre-internet memes. Do the numbers correlate with the increase of online porn and the condomless co-stars? Do the numbers correlate with increased immigration? Do the numbers correlate with other non-buzzword viruses?

# 12 ChrisMac said, on November 13th, 2007 at 8:56 pm

std’s are everywhere..glove up!

# 13 Awake said, on November 13th, 2007 at 9:26 pm

STD’s are spreading because we have made them stronger.
Most STD’s are bacterial, and respond to antibiotics. But the overuse of antibiotics has hardened the STDs, making them more likely to persist even if they are treated. Since STD are generally an invisible disease, and highly contagious, either they do not get treated or they don’t clear up all the way anymore.

And lack of fear is a big factor also. We were terrified of catching this kind of disease when we were young, but now everyone just assumes that if they do catch something, they can get it treated. So they don’t take precautions, they catch it, don’t know they have it, and eventually pass it on. Women on the pill have little incentive to use condoms. Men are just too horny to care at the critical time, and they know that birth control is the woman’s job, be it through ovulation control, day after pills or abortion.

So in summary, increased drug resistance combined with lack of fear leads to an epidemic.

# 14 Kevinl said, on November 13th, 2007 at 9:26 pm

Come on John, you posted this, at least read the link. The big increase was in syphillis from gayboy sex, others declined or were statisistically negligable. My brother is a health teacher in a junior high and even he thinks the sex ed program is out of wack. He’s not allowed to deviate from the script and it is heavily slanted to the “here’s how to put on a condom when you have sex cause we know you’s gonna do it and soon…and here’s why anal sex it a-okay”. The fact the sex ed programs are heavily financed by planned parenthood doesn’t scare you? They have quite a vested interest to unwanted pregnancies and know the odds of any punk kids getting the condom on right. They just play the odds and it’s a win-win. Just remember, if you are not having sex, it’s very difficult to get an STD. At least acknowledge that instead of pretending all kids have sex all the time. Some don’t becasue they actually don’t want to risk getting an STD or getting pregnant. imagine that, kids who actually can think?

# 15 Mister Mustard said, on November 14th, 2007 at 6:20 am

>>Yeah, I guess this is all the fault of teaching kids not to have sex.

Exactly. Instead of trying to ‘teach kids not to have sex” (like THAT has a chance of working), we should be spending our time teaching kids how not to get pregnant or diseased if they DO have sex.

But no. The self-loathers of the anti-sex crowd would rather see teen preganancy go up, syphillis, gonorrheah and chlamydia go up, and deaths from AIDS go up, that admit that kids will be kids, and they’re going to screw.

# 16 Darrell said, on November 14th, 2007 at 7:07 am

Post hoc ergo propter hoc.

# 17 Sounds The Alarm said, on November 14th, 2007 at 7:17 am

#15,

Actually I’d like to see both done. Encouragement for staying away from sex AND use of condoms, birth control etc.

# 18 comrade aleksey said, on November 14th, 2007 at 8:01 am

#4
“Not all Christians are money-grubbing, self-serving, sexually deviant control freaks….

True. But most believe in a fairy tale.”

Disn’t you mistaken Jews for Christians?

# 19 Greg Allen said, on November 14th, 2007 at 8:42 am

Tying this to the year 2000 is bogus.

It reminds me of “proof” conservative Christians give when they point out that all kinds of American social problems took a turn for the worse after prayer was banned in schools. I’m sure that includes STDs.

You may be right but you need better proof than just a year.

# 20 RBG said, on November 14th, 2007 at 9:36 am

See mocking snake-handling story above.

RBG

# 21 Angel H. Wong said, on November 14th, 2007 at 9:49 am

And this is why teenagers should have a computer + internet access in their rooms.

# 22 natefrog said, on November 14th, 2007 at 10:16 am

So, the moral of the story is that conservative, self-righteous Xtians will come down with STDs more often?

Is this really a problem? Let Darwin work his magic!

Us “libruhls” may not have many children, but at least we aren’t fooling around until our unprotected reproductive bits turn black and fall off. And conservatives are more likely to fight health care reform that would help these people out. Oh, irony!

Yet another reason to save sex until you’ve figured out the ideology of your partner; conservatives are diseased!

# 23 Phillep said, on November 14th, 2007 at 12:48 pm

#22, Nate, any bets the increases are among the protected minorities, and not the Jesus Freaks?

# 24 KevinL said, on November 14th, 2007 at 3:05 pm

#23 Pillep,

You got it! If you link back to the 2006 STD trend report, the only increase is in Syphilis in men who have sex with other men. Others continued to decline or had small increases in minority groups. The trends are not keyed to specific ages either so this story is meaningless since it has nothing to do with sex-ed in public schools. Another dumb posting brought to you by none other than JCD.

# 25 ECA said, on November 14th, 2007 at 3:20 pm

99.9% of children DONT have an STD at birth…
So with this idea, they should be clean when they get to their TEENS…
So, whose the Monkey that raped the dog?? And introduced STD into the pool.

# 26 natefrog said, on November 14th, 2007 at 7:44 pm

#23, Phillep;

I’ll answer your strawman with another:

Any bet on the increases being at a higher rate among conservatives than liberals?

# 27 Luke said, on November 15th, 2007 at 5:31 am

What is the chance of getting pregnant when using a condom? 8%. What is the chance of getting pregnant without one? There is around a one day period in a month when a female can get pregnant. On those other 30 days of the month there is a 8% chance, everyday that you can catch an STD. Condom or no condom, if you’re having sex with someone that has an STD, sooner or later you’re going to have it. You’ve just got to do the math. That said what are the odds of catching an STD when you have sex with someone that doesn’t have an STD? None, with or without a condom. By the way for those who haven’t had sex without a condom I suuggest you try it sometime….preferably with someone that doesn’t have an STD. And yes there are other forms of birth control.

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