Dear Colleague,
We report today on a conference held last
week in Washington DC at which researchers demonstrated that sexually
transmitted diseases tend to rise
with the introduction of condoms
and other techniques from the "safe sex" world. Of course,
this is the opposite of what sex educators contend.
Spread the
word.
Yours sincerely,
Austin
Ruse
President
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CULTURE
& COSMOS
December 23, 2003 Volume Number 20
Explosion
in STDs Caused by “Safe Sex” Message, According to
Researchers
At a public health conference held last week in
Washington DC, doctors cited evidence of an epidemic of sexually
transmitted diseases (STDs)
among the nation’s teenagers,
and cited “safe-sex” programs and condom-distribution as
contributing factors of the problem.
At the conference,
researcher Dr. David Hager reported that within the US each year,
chlamydia cases increase by 4 million, pelvic inflammatory
disease
by 1.2 million, gonorrheae by 2 million, genital herpes by 1 million
and human papilloma virus (HPV) by 5.5 million. According to
the
American Social Health Association, 3.8 million of these and
other STD cases are contracted by US teens–the highest
contraction rate within the
general US population. In fact, almost
45% of all teenagers and young adults are infected with at least one
STD by their mid-twenties.
Many of these STDs cannot be cured,
leading to long-term health problems including infertility and even
cancer. 95% of all cases of cervical cancer
are associated with
HPV infection, resulting in 4000 deaths a year in the United
States.
Yet teenagers continue to be the most targeted group
for the safe-sex message, which advocates condom use to prevent the
spread of STDs,
including HIV. According to groups such as Planned
Parenthood, “safer-sex practice allows couples to reduce their
sexual health risks. Safer sex is
anything we do to lower our risk
of sexually transmitted infection.”
Unfortunately, new
statistics and studies have concluded that “while condom usage
has increased most among teens, STDs have also increased most
among
teens.” Project Reality, the advocacy group sponsoring the
conference, points out that “the popular claim that ‘condoms
help prevent
the spread of STDs,’ is not supported by the
data. If condoms were effective against STDs, the increase in condom
usage would correlate to a
decrease in STDs overall–which is
not the case. Rather as condom usage increases, so do rates of
STDs.”
In addition to such statistics on STD cases,
studies on sexual activity during adolescence also show increased
percentages of depression, suicide,
as well as an assortment of
emotional problems including loss of self-respect, esteem, and trust
among sexually active teens compared.
As Hager went on to
point out, the only way to guarantee teens will not contract such
diseases, or, prevent increases in these emotional and
behavioral
problems is to promote the delay of “sexual activity until they
are in a mutually, monogamous relationship within marriage," not
the
safe-sex message. The most effective messages promoting the
delay of sexual activity came from parents and moral beliefs, which
"accounted for
53% of the influences affecting teen decisions
about sex.”
Hagar’s presentation on teenage
sexuality comes on the heels of similar statistics reported by
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the
National Institute
of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the American Cancer Society, and
the National Institutes of Health, which show correlations
between
the increases in STD with increases in condom usage and promotion of
the safe-sex message.
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