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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.

Maybe, maybe not. This "survey" runs from 18 to 25 years old, and doesn't qualify married vs. unmarried samples. I saw a statistic recently stating that well over 1/3 of American women are married before their 25th birthday. I know that, at 24, my wife was having frequent unprotected sex ;-)

Oh, and my sister (an Army medic based at Ft. Sill) has assured me in the past that the STD rates for active duty Army females hovers around 30% The Army is good about getting the women treated and cured, but she echoes the "mental disconnect" comment found in the article. She told me about a time when a woman came in to have her fifth STD treated in less than a year, and how the woman was complaining about how she kept getting them. When my sister suggested that she protect herself or stop sleeping around with guys she hardly knew, the woman got defensive and claimed that her sex life had nothing to do with her STD's...and refused to listen to ANYTHING my sister had to say afterwards. Sis honestly couldn't tell if this woman was stupid or just badly informed, but it's a great example of what's wrong with our young women nowadays.

Oh, and for those of you with sons in the Army, I have to point this out: These diseases aren't spreading between women on the toilet seats. My sister has also had the unfortunate luck to treat Army wives infected after their husbands have returned from overseas duty, and has assisted in the treatment of male soldiers who have picked up everything from herpes to AIDS while fooling around with the locals and female soldiers. The Army spends a lot of time and money to educate soldiers on this stuff, but it doesn't seem to be doing any good :\