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

By: Luke

Luke — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:31:39 +0000

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.

By: natefrog

natefrog — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:44:20 +0000

#23, Phillep;

I’ll answer your strawman with another:

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

By: ECA

ECA — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:20:55 +0000

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.

By: KevinL

KevinL — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:05:18 +0000

#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.

By: Phillep

Phillep — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:48:12 +0000

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

By: natefrog

natefrog — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:16:05 +0000

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!

By: Angel H. Wong

Angel H. Wong — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:49:20 +0000

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

By: RBG

RBG — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:36:38 +0000

See mocking snake-handling story above.

RBG

By: Greg Allen

Greg Allen — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:42:44 +0000

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.

By: comrade aleksey

comrade aleksey — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:01:58 +0000

#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?

By: Sounds The Alarm

Sounds The Alarm — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:17:16 +0000

#15,

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

By: Darrell

Darrell — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:07:05 +0000

Post hoc ergo propter hoc.

By: Mister Mustard

Mister Mustard — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:20:49 +0000

>>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.

By: Kevinl

Kevinl — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 05:26:13 +0000

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?

By: Awake

Awake — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 05:26:03 +0000

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.