The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) claims that 20 million new sexually transmitted infections (STIs), almost half in people ages 15 to 24, are occurring annually in America.
The Daily Mail reports that "Human papillomavirus (HPV) tops the list as the most common infection followed by chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, herpes, hepatitis B, HIV and trichomoniasis." One researcher notes that the numbers have "been growing" in the last couple of decades, costing U.S. taxpayers $16 billion per year.
By the way, the Huffington Post reported on another creepy fact earlier this year regarding antibiotic resistance to gonorrhea, which affects 300,000 new sexually active people annually. "We've been very concerned about the threat of potentially untreatable gonorrhea in the United States," said Dr. Gail Bolan, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's division for sexually transmitted diseases. Of the 20 million new cases of STIs, one CDC official called it an "ongoing, severe STI epidemic," which begs the question...why?
With "experts" like Amy T. Schalet encouraging parents to allow their children to have sex at home, and the University of Chicago offering "Sex Week" to students where they warn that "Discussions and events may involve explicit material that may make some individuals feel uncomfortable," is it any wonder that young adults in particular are a bit more experimental?
It's the culture, stupid!
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is it any wonder that young adults in particular are a bit more experimental?
It's the culture, stupid!
Is not only untrue, but it is intellectually dishonest. There are several factors affecting the rise and fall in STI data. Anyone who has taken a college entry level stats course is aware of this.
To also attribute the increase in STI data to simply "the culture" is, again, intellectually dishonest. You're failing to take into consideration that the world population grows -- and therefore elements of that population grows. Homicide rates increase, hunger rates increase, childbirth rates increase -- EVERYTHING increases -- when the population increases. Crime rate, sexual morbidity and disease isn't a direct effect of "culture" -- it's something that has more than been proved as a socio-economic and education issue.
Anyone can sit around and gossip that the problems in today's world is caused by "the culture," but that kind of speculation is better suited between church ladies than people who claim to be of intelligence, who have a public platform. You should use that platform to be truthful and not continually intellectually obtuse as to blame the world's problems on one single thing -- with absolutely no explanation to strengthen the lazy claim that "culture" causes disease.
FYI -- "20 million new cases a year" isn't that staggering when every year has reported figures like this. Understanding and researching the stats would clearly show that.
/ˈkəlCHər/
Noun
The arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively.
Verb
Maintain (tissue cells, bacteria, etc.) in conditions suitable for growth.
So...no. But the growth of and dispersion of depending on region. "Culture" is hardly the root of STIs or much of anything else negative in society.
LET'S USE THE COMPLETE BIG PEOPLE DEFINITION, SHALL WE...
cul·ture (klchr)
n.
1.
a. The totality of socially transmitted behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all other products of human work and thought.
b. These patterns, traits, and products considered as the expression of a particular period, class, community, or population: Edwardian culture; Japanese culture; the culture of poverty.
c. These patterns, traits, and products considered with respect to a particular category, such as a field, subject, or mode of expression: religious culture in the Middle Ages; musical culture; oral culture.
d. The predominating attitudes and behavior that characterize the functioning of a group or organization.
Quite clearly, teenagers promiscuously engaging in experimental, group, unprotected sex at increasingly younger ages could have nothing to do with the transmission of STDs...
Because, if that were so, it would call into question your whole "liberal" belief structure...
Every time you post or comment, it is an indictment of the state of education in America today...
BTW...glad you got a new Icon Pic...
Quite clearly, teenagers promiscuously engaging in experimental, group, unprotected sex at increasingly younger ages could have nothing to do with the transmission of STDs
I find it worrisome that you've immediately focused on teen group and experimental sex when the facts of the matter are that STIs among the elderly are statistically on the rise in the United States.
Furthermore, of COURSE unprotected sex increases the risk of STIs, JoJo, and yes, even people that aren't even teenagers have sex! (wow, huh, something other than teen sex? surely as an adult man you'd know that!) But what you and your friend are failing to grasp or even produce in a cite-able figure is any measurable proof that the "culture" of today has added to this risk in any comparable difference from years past. Furthermore, you've not produced any numbers to indicate that the number of "teens having group sex" as you've colorfully suggested have risen or fluctuated much at all in any comparable sense.
So while you're spitting out ad hominem attacks you're only really coming across that you can't cite any figures or display any proof/#s to back up your claims, and you have a fixation on teen sex - when clearly other people also have sex.
Anyway, I'm dipping out of this conversation now. I did my charity work for the day.
You must be really bored now that no one pays attention to your posts any more...
The point is...it starts in grade school and pervades the culture...
Yeah, and that nursing home VD is really a big problem...
If you weren't so snotty, people would like you better...
BTB, since it is Latin, it should be in italics...
Ta...
Daisy chaining involves leaving school and having sex with as many partners as possible before going home to eat.
Perhaps Chelsea might refer us to documented evidence of pensioners getting involved in similar activities. Maybe the edpidemic she refers to is another case of a science and reason loving liberal not understanding how percentages work. If a hundred old guys got the clap (from teenage hookers?) last year and this year 110 showed up at the STI clinic with a nasty discharge that's a ten per cent increase but it's only ten more old guys. Now if a million teens got the clap last year, and this year there were a million and ten thousand new cases among teens that's a one percent increase but it's still ten thousand extra people with clap. Simples.
Just made that up...it means her comments are off the point and insulting to everyone...
The kinds in a class or a whole year at school will decide they're having a daisy chaining night. They they will just go to each others houses and have sex and the one who manages most partners wins.
To prevent any leftie nut jobs trying to claim the religious right made this up (although we don't have a religious right in Britain) here's a BBC News item about the game. Nurses warn over teen sex
Needless to say of a daisy chaining day, if one person in school had an embarrassing infection in the morning, by the next morning they've all got it (except the nerd who stayed at home playing computer games).
http://www.cdc.gov/std/stats11/figures/5.htm
Chlamydia—Rates by Age and Sex, United States, 2011
Gonorrhea by Sex
Gonorrhea rates among women have been higher than those among men since 2002 (Figure 17). During 2010–2011, the gonorrhea rate among women increased 3.1%, to 108.9 cases per 100,000 population, and the rate among men increased 5.1%, to 98.7 per 100,000 population, (Tables 15 and 16).
Gonorrhea by Age
In 2011, gonorrhea rates were highest among adolescents and young adults. In 2011, the highest rates were observed among women aged 20–24 years (584.2) and 15–19 years (556.5). Among men, the rate was highest among those aged 20–24 years (450.6) (Figure 21, Table 21).
In 2011, persons aged 15–44 years accounted for 94.6% of reported gonorrhea cases with known age. During 2010–2011, gonorrhea rates increased among most age groups within this age range: the gonorrhea rate increased 5.8% among those aged 20–24 years, 4.6% among those aged 25–29 years, 6.9% among those aged 30–34 years, 2.5% among those aged 35–39 years, and 4.7% among those aged 40–44 years (Table 21). The gonorrhea rate decreased 0.1% among those aged 15–19 years.
http://www.cdc.gov/std/stats11/gonorrhea.htm
http://www.cdc.gov/std/stats11/syphilis.htm
http://www.cdc.gov/std/stats11/other.htm
Nothing wrong with having sex all of us were born because our parents had a little nooky unless of course your one of those on gather that were born under a great slimy rock. All I say is just be more responsible when having sex just make sure your girlfriend is on the pill. Just joking by the way, I did not mean to imply that some gather members were slimy toads that were born under a rock.
Oh look Renee look what I have become a ‘foreign agent provocateur'
Weird that the CDC would call it a "Severe Epidemic..." Here is an overview.
Nah, inundating kids with sexual imagery has nothing to do with sexual behavior. It is all about the population increase, despite that fact that half of the people who get STDs are from 15-24 - a quarter of the population.......
That explains the "fixation"
"Attention, having unprotected sex, could result in this in 25 year!"
"Over six years, psychological scientists examined whether or not seeing sex on the big screen translates into sex in the real world for adolescents. Their findings, which are to be published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, revealed not only that it did but also explained some of the reasons why."
“Adolescents who are exposed to more sexual content in movies start having sex at younger ages, have more sexual partners, and are less likely to use condoms with casual sexual partners,” O’Hara explained."
It was so wrong...
I know that now...
CF*...I am SOOOOOO sorry...
*Not her real name...
(Somebody should be writing these down and putting them in a book...)
*Not her real name
Yep, it's definitely the culture. If you leave God out of everything, and God's instruction manual.....
*Not her real name...