Comments on: Study: 1 In 4 U.S. Teen Girls Has STD

First-Ever Study Of Age Group Finds Virus For Cervical Cancer Is Most Common Infection

[olebd]

Posted by hoopakai at 09:48 PM : Mar 11, 2008

Sure. It used to be the fear of God or what he would do to us that kept us in line. The big lightning bolt coming down and striking us if we didn''t behave. That seems to have gone away for a good many people these days and these people now have teens that don''t know that fear and never have.

[olebd]

Posted by hoopakai at 09:48 PM : Mar 11, 2008

Sure. It used to be the fear of God or what he would do to us that kept us in line. The big lightning bolt coming down and striking us if we didn''t behave. That seems to have gone away for a good many people these days and these people now have teens that don''t know that fear and never have.

[hoopakai]

Don''''t believe in God or a God. No fear of sin

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Care to explain this?

[olebd]

Lack of morals and feeling no shame these days. Don''t believe in God or a God. No fear of sin, no consequences for making wrong choices. Anything goes. They got it all figured out by 12 years old these days and nobody can tell them anything different. Pleasure monkeys we are...seeking the perfect high, if only temporary. Get off wherever and however possible.

[olebd]

Thanks to the rap music and dance moves out there for the past decade. Some kind of primitive urges being conjured up with all the booty shaking (presenting) and grinding. Also blame the ads on TV...Enzyte and Girls Gone Wild and the MTV shows such as Real World where casual "hook-ups" are the norm. It''s no wonder.

[jumkey]

"abstinence, like it or not, prevents the spread of disease."

No kidding. And not eating prevents obesity. What''s your point?

People have $ex. What''s your plan now?

[hypnotoad72]

abstinence, like it or not, prevents the spread of disease.

Does anyone even know what the word "courtship" means anymore?

"Free love" was a nice idea, I suppose, but I think everybody was stoned at the time.

Yes, males have their part to play in disease transmission too. No doubt, if the article was male-centric, the author would be lambasted as sexist or, what the heck, homophobic too.

GROW THE FRIG UP, PEOPLE. Let''s look at the core issue and not diddle around with these saccharine semantics. Is that all you nitwits can do, point fingers and cry "___ist!" while the problems aren''t even discussed?!

Or maybe we should let these fools do what they want. They''ll disease themselves to death. Preferably locked up so they can''t infect anyone else. Fine by me, they have no compassion for or concept of life.

[bobnjersey]

[WHY are there no mention about sexual activity of teenage boys, or STDS with boys and their contribution to the problem. Your piece was very sextist and one sided, it takes two to tango!]
[Posted by dingyfox at 07:05 PM : Mar 11, 2008]

the study is about sexually related disease in teenage girls. so discussing boys might be considered out of scope.

[anon671]

pharmaceutical reps start your engines!!! Propaganda.

The stats are shady. Doesn''t surprise me that RACIST CBS would release such faulty data in order to hurt black girls. Are you still angry about Imus? Get over it and stop being so RACIST.

[hogwarts08]

dingyfox: you are so right. not too much mention about boys only the girls. i don''t why. boys can contract same diseases as the girls.

[hogwarts08]

Soon as my daughter turned 13 I explained all about the diseases on having ***. At their age they don''t think about protection like condoms. She understands and I pray she''ll remember when that time comes.

[keithle1]

"..the highest overall prevalence is among black girls - nearly half the blacks studied had at least one STD."

That sounds very racist to me. Black girls are NOT nappy-headed h o s!

[gce65]

And the most ridiculous thing is that on a news website discussing STD''s (can I even write "STD?" I''d better find some way around it like SSS TTT DDD) even the word "SEKS" gets censored!
SSSSEEEEXXXX!
SEHX!
SSSSSSEX!
SEXXX!


CBS: What are you, a bunch of Puritans?

[gce65]

This is what moralizing and abstinence-only sseexx education produces: teens who know little about *** and related HEALTH ISSUES.

This doesn''t happen in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, etc.

Let the puss flow over America. It''s rotten anyway.

[dingyfox]

I wish to comment on your piece about STDS with teenage girls. WHY are there no mention about sexual activity of teenage boys, or STDS with boys and their contribution to the problem. Your piece was very sextist and one sided, it takes two to tango!

This is the reporting that Big Pharma loves. Scare them into the Doctor''s Office so he can can put a synthetic drug made by Big Pharma full of side effects into their blood streams. When will this madness end?????

[on_alert247]

The subject of this piece "1 in 4 US teen girls has STD" is grossly misleading. It should be prefaced with "Based on girls who participated in a govt. health survey". So under what circumstances would your daughter participate in such a survey? Perhaps if she was involved in risky behavior, poor, or attended inner city public schools. Not exactly a representative population of all teens.

[denn034]

Okay Wiseguys,
Parents and kids are the same from generation to generation. Permissive influences, though they change forms, exist from generation to generation as well. Kids didn''t get HIV and STDs back when or the numbers were real low but, something changed and now kids are getting HIV and STDs left and right. Here''s my question: What''s changed?! As far as I can see, the addition of $ex and abstinence education is the only change. In the end, the numbers of HIV and STD infections keep increasing despite $ex and abstinence education so, what''s changed? Perhaps, the problem is $ex and abstinence ed to begin with and the climate of $ex in the schools that''s generated by it. It''s the only explanation I see. What''s changed if not $ex and abstinence ed being added?

[docofthebay]

There is no such thing as "safe s e x" outside of marriage. Posted by mike71067

That is ridiculous. What you really mean is that YOU think there is no such thing as "proper s e x" outside of marriage - there are definately way to keep it safe no matter WHO you "do", merried or not.

[mediapreachr]

If we as a nation had real health care like they do in Europe or Canada,statistics like this wouldn''t exist.
But we''re looking more like Brazil or Mexico everyday.