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arbilad


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According to this article, one in four teenage girls has an std. I think that's a sad commentary on our society.

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That number seemed a bit high, so I did some looking.

Teens were tested for four infections: human papillomavirus, or HPV, which can cause cervical cancer and affected 18 percent of girls studied; chlamydia, which affected 4 percent; trichomoniasis, 2.5 percent; and herpes simplex virus, 2 percent.
So, there are over 100 forms of HPV, and only 30-40 of them are typically transmitted through sexual contact.  They're all transmitted through physical contact. 

The herpes simplex virus is also transmitted by close contact with an infected person who is shedding virus from the skin or in saliva (i.e. - you can get it by holding hands and kissing).  Mommies will also give this to kids they're giving birth to.

So I'm not an expert, just got this from 5 minutes in front of wikipedia and Yahoo health.  But it's looking like no, 1 in 4 teenage girls does NOT have an STD.  Unless you equate sex with all forms of physical contact

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-- Edited by LoudmouthMormon at 13:45, 2008-03-11

-- Edited by LoudmouthMormon at 13:54, 2008-03-11

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Here's what I know for sure: way too many young girls (say 12-ish to 16) are having sex. Regardless of what the STD numbers are, they are too high.

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Every once in a while you see a report in the paper about an STD epidemic at some highschool and how everyone is shocked. It is a sad sign of the times.

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A friend of mine was telling me about a family that moved into a texas neighborhood where every girl in highschool was or had been pregnant... (by the time they were a Junior) and that it was gang related... and he was "worried" about his daughter.  Yay!

-- Edited by rayb at 10:12, 2008-03-12

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