An August 11 Washington Times story highlights the findings of a new health study – the last 14 years have seen a 13 percent drop in the number of sexually experienced teens. Conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the study found “that the share of teens who acknowledged ever having had sexual intercourse dropped from 54.1 percent to 46.8 percent” from 1991 to 2005. Good news overall, but teen sexual activity is still a problem of epidemic proportions. Alarmingly, the study found that in 2005, “28.2 percent of black teens said they had experienced four or more sex partners during their lives” (emphasis mine), compared to 11.4 percent for whites and 15.9 percent for Hispanics.
Does anyone remember the good ol’ days in America when you could count the number of sexually transmitted diseases on one hand? Today, over 30 such diseases exist. That alarming fact is thanks in part to the public schools’ comprehensive sex education model, where condoms are peddled as the cure-all for teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. Comprehensive sex-ed does “damage control” without dealing with the root cause of teen sexual activity.
Want some good pragmatic advice? Go with the only 100 percent sure-fire way of avoiding pregnancy and STDs – abstinence from sex until marriage and faithful monogamy from both partners within.