courtesy of elsewhere...
short version: although mysteriously discounting AIDS (?!), US STD rates are at record levels. long version here.
commentary: i seem to recall all the republicans i knew rubbing their hands together with glee when bush won the election in 1992, loudly shouting “hosanna” and praising god in the highest, shrilly reveling that with george w. bush, sexual immorality would be swept out of the oval office along with bill clinton. i’m so very glad that we now have bush the lesser and his merry band of neocon(victs) to make sure that sexual immorality would be defeated now and forevermore, amen.
on another note: i'm trying to figure out why AIDS figures were not included in this by the CDC. if anybody has any ideas, i'd really like to hear 'em.
ed
silverwhisper posted on Nov 13, 2007
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bloc said on Nov 13, 2007....
i still think one of the funniest things in life is the fact that abstinence only programs lead to more oral and anal sex. Priceless irony. -
silverwhisper said on Nov 13, 2007....
it's weird...remember in high school when oral sex was considered more intimate than intercourse?!
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bloc said on Nov 13, 2007....
we must have grown up in different eras ;) -
silverwhisper said on Nov 13, 2007....
heh...fair enough. :D
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SeanRenaud said on Nov 13, 2007....
As much as I hate that there are more STD's out there it's still hilarious how clear the correlations is that abstinance only simply doesn't work. -
TinSoldier said on Nov 13, 2007....
I didn't really get much from that article, so I went straight to the CDC website for more info. Gawds how I love the web!
Anyway, ed is indeed correct -- the STD report only covers chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis. Not even herpes, apparently -- anyone remember the big herpes scares before AIDS came out?
Well, that was before my own actual sexual activity, but I still remember it.
But I think that the main reason is that HIV/AIDS has its own category on the CDC website.
I can find herpes there by doing a search, so it's not like the information has been hidden from view.
Now, ed, has there been any "sexual morality in the oval office" since Bill Clinton leaving office? Well, other than Iraq getting raped that is. ;-)
Damn, looking at the charts on the Trends page, you can see that we are thankfully nowhere near the peak for gonorrhea or syphilis. And maybe the reason for more chlamydia cases is the fact that more are being reported -- even though an estimated 40 percent remain undiagnosed.
I chalk up the fact that rates are relatively low to increased use of condoms due to HIV/AIDS awareness, and I would also venture to chalk up the increase to the opposite -- maybe fewer people see HIV/AIDS as a threat than they did in the nineties and so therefore fewer are using condoms. That's just suppostion on my part though.
I haven't read the full report -- just the trends page. -
silverwhisper said on Nov 13, 2007....
well, clear unless one is a moron, that is... :>
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TinSoldier said on Nov 13, 2007....
We simuposted, so I hope you see my response above. -
silverwhisper said on Nov 13, 2007....
gah! sorry about that TS, thanks for the additional research, man. :>
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starchini said on Nov 13, 2007....
Cosmopolitan tells me that over half of women between the ages of 16 and 24 will contract an std. And one in four have or have had an std. This is why im now terrified to be single. EEP... -
SeanRenaud said on Nov 13, 2007....
Not to downplay the STD's but how much of what people are catching goes away on its own or is just a shot away from being cured? -
TinSoldier said on Nov 13, 2007....
I just noticed something:
i seem to recall all the republicans i knew rubbing their hands together with glee when bush won the election in 1992
Wait -- I thought that Bill Clinton won in 1992? Am I now living in some alternate universe or something? -
Fallyn said on Nov 13, 2007....
abstinence only really does not work.
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TinSoldier said on Nov 13, 2007....
Sure it does -- abstinence is 100% effective against unwanted pregnancies and STDs. The only problem is convincing people that they want to practice abstinence.
That's the part that doesn't work. -
SeanRenaud said on Nov 13, 2007....
The thing is tin that attitude doesn't work. Kids actually have less sex in programs that don't teach abstinance as the only proper course. -
TinSoldier said on Nov 13, 2007....
Do you have a reference for that? My post was tongue-in-cheek by the way, if you didn't notice. -
crybabylu said on Nov 14, 2007....
TinSoldier, I know why there hasn't been any word of any sexual improprieties in the oval office since Bush has been president>Who would want him? -
silverwhisper said on Nov 14, 2007....
starchini: well, while i'll admit i'm awfully dubious about that stat, i do think that safe sex is really damned important--you never know when someone is lying to you, you know?
sean: i believe chlamydia and gonorrhea traditionally are treatable, although the article discusses this...[meaningful look]
TS: doh! clearly, i can't keep the years straight!
fallyn: abstinence-only is statistically a joke, as we're finding out re: HIV/AIDS and africa. thanks to the idiocy of certain social conservatives in the US, some aid workers are required to teach abstinence-only. fat lot of good that does.
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Expendable said on Nov 14, 2007....
As if telling a kid "no" works. -
silverwhisper said on Nov 14, 2007....
silly social conservatives... :D
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Fallyn said on Nov 14, 2007....
tin soldier... :P that is what i meant. *laughing*
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silverwhisper said on Nov 14, 2007....
ah...that'll work. :>
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desertsienna2 said on Nov 15, 2007....
That and a lot of other sad social problems that are being ignored: drug addiction, teenage pregnancy, functional illiteracy, a refusal to work, high divorce rate, obesity, cancer rates, diabetes rates, heart attack and stroke rates, low minimum wages, racism, domestic violence, sexual harassment, human trafficking, homophobia, gun-related street violence, drug trafficking, political extremism, religious fundamentalism, mental illness, etc. -
silverwhisper said on Nov 16, 2007....
i like how you show up and more or less blogjack so you can get up on your own little soapbox.
yes, that's sarcasm, desert sienna.
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TinSoldier said on Nov 16, 2007....
"blogjack". What a lovely term. :D -
silverwhisper said on Nov 17, 2007....
well, it's a natural enough mutation of threadjack... :>
ed
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