STDs rife among US teenage girls
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Not to mention, the shame, ignorance, or blind denial possible in the older generations.
These girls lay it right out there. My generation sure as hell didn't.
I don't think most people would call the girls used tracy. I just glanced over that part, because I had no way of politely explaining my view on the term 'used cows'.
society never has before... isn't that how boyscouts collect merit badges.......no wait....that's something else....lol
.....somethings change slowly... at least we don't stone each other for rape....
On a side note, I doubt anyone has done studies of STD's in predominantly Muslim countries. Particularly the the dictated ones.
Besides that Muslim women have their own health problems. Look up what the deficiency of Vitamin D can do to a person and then consider that Muslim women do not get ANY sun because of their mode of dress.
Besides that Muslim women have their own health problems. Look up what the deficiency of Vitamin D can do to a person and then consider that Muslim women do not get ANY sun because of their mode of dress.
The funny thing is the most judgemental person I know on this issue is the one who got an STD from her first partner. She talks about other girls as "dirty" and I've had to remind her more than once that she isn't exactly pristine. Hopefully those kinds of attitudes will change sooner rather than later.
Part of what struck me as so neat about that article I can't find, is its push to move away from the term STD for HPV, due to its almost unpreventable nature (condom use doesn't prevent transmission very well), and move to the term HTD instead. Trying to remove some of the stigma so that women don't feel shamed when they need to seek medical attention. With modern society's understanding of medical issues, everytime a woman comes down with cervical cancer now, she knows she has this stigma.
The thing is that's true of herpes as well and the only way other than perinatal transmission to catch it is through sexual activity. HIV is spread by needles and blood transfusions more often than HPV is spread perinatally, but we still call it an STD. Most likely women who get HPV caused cancer did get it because they slept with someone who gave it to them. I don't think the solution is to start using euphamisms so she can somehow pretend she got it some other way. All that does is encourage the notion that the spread can't be prevented so don't bother trying (condoms aren't perfect but they work a lot of the time). Plus, human transmitted is just so vague and leaves people uninformed. The flu is human transmitted. Colds are human transmitted. I'm not going to get them the same way I'll get HPV.
The solution is to get over our strange attitudes about sexuality. I don't know why society has such a problem admitting that it is normal for humans to have sex and that anyone who isn't a virgin can catch those diseases.
but then again....is only doing oral considered still being a virgin?? and HIV and STD's can be trasmitted orally....if you are sexually active at all.... you stand a chance...
has anyone ever found any good reliable information on oral and STD transmission? I know we were always told 'just don't without a barrier', but I have never for the life of me been able to turn up reliable info on the true risk factors there.
Regardless though, oral would seem to me to fall into 'natural human sexuality'. Virgin or not. Sexually active is the term I think we need to be using with our kids, and placing a lot less emphasis on the V.
Sorry I have not stats about STD's between Muslims and others but :
Why does the example of Muslim females predominate this issue ?
Well the answer is Muslim females are at present the most obvious example and contradition to the secular world. The ideal of Moslem women in their appreciation of modesty deserves our respect. The portrayl of imposed modesty of women in the Muslim world as an infringement of human rights is a matter for the individual to decide. It is intertwinded with culture, politics, control of society,( by force sometimes ), religion etc.
I would venture a resonable hypothesis : As the modesty, ie. guilt of exposure of the body decreased, STD's increased.
As far as Muslim men and lust, any historian worth his salt and I would recomment Durant, would tell you that lust among the Muslim male is not only a dominate theme in this world but into the world of paradise with the 72 virgins that they, no matter how many innocent people they kill, will be theirs.