[hasegawasama]

So? One in ten women have chlameydia, I think.

[TheAngryClam]

Center for Disease Control Facts

As many as 1 in 10 adolescent girls tested for chlamydia is infected.

Based on reports to CDC provided by states that collect age-specific data, teenage girls have the highest rates of chlamydial infection. In these states, 15- to 19-year-old girls represent 46% of infections and 20- to 24-year-old women represent another 33%. These high percentages are consistent with high rates of other STDs among teenagers.

Among women entering the Job Corps in 1997, chlamydia rates ranged from 4 - 14% by state (20,000 entrants are screened annually). Chlamydial infection is widespread geographically and highly prevalent among these economically disadvantaged young women between 16 and 24 years old.

Seems to me like the Army recruits are just the same as everyone else (1 in 10 or so), and likely cleaner.

[cmsgop]

Chlamydia would make a good Pet Name.

Fetch Girl, Fetch Chlamydia.....

[Consort]

Element: Chlamydia
Symbol: Ch
Atomic No.: 105
Atomic weight: [ 229 ]
Group Name: Actinoid

[ETERNAL WARMING]

and found 61 percent of non-students and 56 percent of students had unprotected sex within the past three months.

THis is a scary stat. Imagine how many abortions that encompasses.

[Alberta's Child]

I think the Pentagon could ensure a high level of discipline in the military and protect female members of the military from unwanted sexual advances by announcing that 99% of the female recruits have some kind of STD.

[risk]

This disease could be impacting our society's fertility rate. See http://www.niaid.nih.gov/factsheets/stdclam.htm

[First Amendment]

Gaydos says more public awareness would lead to more chlamydia screening.

You mean some people haven't heard of sexually transmitted diseases yet?

I've got a novel idea. Maybe if people didn't have sex until they were married, and then remained faithful, this wouldn't be a problem. People don't have to act on every thought or desire that passes through their minds. There are such character traits as self-control and determination - and they can be developed.

[Agnes Heep]

I was under the impression that this was the age of the condom.

[Saundra Duffy]

Good grief!

[Salman]

bump

[sully777]

Why does every study turn into a federal program? It's getting to the point that I instinctively grab my wallet when I watch/read news involving a funded study that concludes it needs more funding.

My state is actually funding abstinance commercials and educational programs in public schools. But I overheard some teachers lampoon the idea, "We know these kids are full of hormones and can't control themselves. They'll do it anywhere they can."

In the last few decades we've become a nation of uncontrollable dogs and we're spending billions of dollars determining why we have worms and fleas!!!

[goldstategop]

Do they have that much sex in the Army? Things have sure changed since the good old days.

[LadyDoc]

actually, this is well known. And the women get checked for Chlamydia when they come in for their pap smears. That is why doctors don't want the BC PILL to be sold without a prescription: You miss chlamydia and the women end up sterile.

In a high risk population, the percentage is higher than ten percent chlamydia.

The problem is that teen agers have been sold the idea that sex has no problems...when was the last time a movie showed a slut or her boyfriend catching herpes?

[TruthFactor]

Did they give the racial breakdown of the stats.? Or has that new California inititave passed which prohibits collecting such data?//sarcasm off//

I'll give you 10 to 1(pun intended) that this data is highly skewed along racial lines.

[SkyPilot]

I told those girls to stay away from Madonna.

[miltonim]

Some facts:

One in five teens tests positive for genital herpes.

Nearly half of girls who have even one episode of sexual intercourse contracts HPV (human papilloma virus) and 14 percent will develop cervical cancer which causes more deaths per year than HIV and AIDS. [New England Journal of Medicine]

After more than 20 years of condom-based sex education to adolescents, we’ve added more than two dozen sexually transmitted diseases to two known STDs of 1960, syphilis and gonorrhea.

The National Institutes for Health state that 100% consistency in condom usage produces only a 87% reduction in risk of HIV and even less protection for other STDs.

From:

http://www.cwfa.org/articles/3312/BLI/dotcommentary/

[No Dems 2004]

Sounds like a sad state on the morality of women in America.

[narses]

Ping.

[concentric circles]

Bookmark - thanks for posting.