The federal Center for Disease Control just released a report with shocking statistics.

In 2008, there were 19.7 million new STD’s, or STI’s as they are now called, reported, bringing the new total of existing STI’s in America to 110,197,000.

50% of all new infections occurred among people in the 15-24 age bracket. Of 19,738,800 total new STIs in the United States in 2008, 9,782,650 were in this age group.

CNSNews reports:

By contrast, there were 1,524,092 bachelor’s degrees awarded in the United States in the 2007-2008 school year, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. That means the total number of new STIs in 2008 outpaced the total number of new bachelor’s degrees by nearly 13 to 1, and the number of new STIs among Americans in the 15-to-24 age bracket outnumbered new bachelor’s degrees by more than 6 to 1.

The same CDC report above says that there are now approximately 20,000,000 new cases of STI’s each year, which costs the American Health Care system roughly $16 Billion in medical costs.

The most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States in 2008 was human papillomavirus (HPV), which caused 14,100,000 estimated infections that year.

After HPV, in order of magnitude, according to the study, new STIs in the U.S. in 2008 included 2,860,000 new Chlamydia infections; 1,090,000 new Trichomoniasis infections; 820,000 new Gonorrhea infections; 776,000 new Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2 (HSV-2) infections; 55,400 new syphilis infections; 41,400 new HIV infections; and 19,000 new Hepatitis B infections.

The total of 110,197,000 existing STIs in the United States in 2008 included 79,100,000 HPV infections, 24,100,000 HSV-2 infections; 3,710,000 Trichomoniasis infections; 1,579,000 Chlamydia infections; 908,000 HIV infections; 422,000 Hepatitis B infections; 270,000 Gonorrhea infections; and 117,000 Syphilis infections.

As noted, the number of people working in the U.S. in 2008 declined by about 2.9 million (dropping from 146,273,000 in December 2007 to 143,369,000 in December 2008). The Bureau of Labor Statistics has published historical data on the number of people employed in the U.S. going back to 1948. In no year since then has the U.S. economy created anywhere near the 19.7 million new STIs estimated for 2008.

My friends, we need to educate ourselves.

Did you know that 63% of University women, who have ever had any form of sex at any point in their lives, including oral sex, are currently infected with HPV. And there is no cure. It is killing more women than HIV and AIDS, and yet nobody talks about it.

At Rutgers University, 60% of women who have ever had sex at any point in their lives, are currently infected with HSV, genital herpes. The statistic is the same at almost every university. At one such university, there were 7,800 students currently enrolled who were registered at the health department as having HSV.

This means that more than half of the women on your college campuses are currently infected with some form of herpes, and most don’t even know it. Why? Because HPV can stay dormant in the body for up to 15 years before showing signs of symptoms. That means you could have had oral sex just one time as a 15-year old girl, and then find out when you are 30 and married with children, that you have HPV, and are at high risk for cervical cancer, which can lead to death.

Please educate yourselves. The lifestyles many of us live are not healthy ones, no matter how ‘fun’ or ‘normal’ our culture tells us they are. I’ll tell you what is not fun, is death and disease, and that is what we as a country are promoting and cultivating. For much more detailed information and more statistics that will shock and scare you, just keep reading below:

Love, Sex, and Relationships: Part 3

The Shocking Truth About STD’s

For Parts 3 – 5 of my “Love, Sex, and Relationships” series, I’m going to be sourcing my information from Josh McDowell’s newest study that is just being released this month, called “The Bare Facts: The Truth About Sex, Love & Relationships.” A total of 43 of the most common questions about these topics will be answered in these next three articles. This one will focu on the public health problems of STD’s (Sexually Transmitted Diseases).

With the risqué sexual lifestyle that our generation is living, I can guarantee that the majority has no idea what they are getting into when they take part in any form of premarital sex, and they would be shocked to find out what the actual statistics are like. That’s what my goal with this is; to help inform the public about the true dangers and realities of a sexually promiscuous lifestyle.

The questions that I will be answering in this article are:

1. Hasn’t modern medicine eliminated most STD’s and infections?

2. What is the most common STD?

3. How prevalent is HPV among university women?

4. Do women get more STD’s than men?

5. Is it true that young people get more STD’s than any other group?

6. Won’t condoms reduce the risk of getting an STD?

7. Even though neither of us have symptoms, can we still have an STD?

8. Can’t you get a shot or take an antibiotic if you get an STD?

9. Is it difficult to get an STD?

10. Can oral sex and STD’s lead to serious illnesses like cancer?

11. Can you get an STD if you are on the Pill?

12. How can I avoid getting an STD?

1. Hasn’t modern medicine eliminated most STD’s and infections?

(PLEASE NOTE: Unless otherwise specified, every statistic shown is for America)

In 1960, there were only 2 main STD’s. They were syphilis and gonorrhea, and both of them were curable with a simple shot. Do you know how many there are today? There are 25 main STD’s, but altogether, today there are about 100 different STD’s. Even with the advancements in modern technology and medicine, the number today is 100. For 19 of the 25 main STD’s, there is no cure at all. The reason? Because they are viruses. There is no cure for viruses. It’s not something that you can just take a shot or antibiotic for.

-In the 1960’s, 1 in 60 sexually involved teens got an STD.

-In the 1970’s, 1 in 47.

-In 2010, the number is 1 in 4.

-There are currently 70,000,000 Americans right now who have an STD.

-More than 40,000,000 of those are incurable.

-Worldwide, 500,000,000 people get an STD every year.

-In the United States, 19,000,000 Americans get an STD every year.

-That comes out to 52,055 Americans that get an STD every day.

-That comes out to 2,169 Americans that get an STD every single hour.

-Among sexually active American teenagers from age 14-19, 1 in 4 are currently infected with HPV, Chlamydia, Genital Herpes, and/or Trichomoniasis.

Keep in mind, ‘sexually active’ applies to every single person who has had sex as little as only one time, even if it happened when they were 14 years old. Also note, that this also applies to oral sex. This is important to remember.

What percentage of sexually active women can expect to get the #1 sexually transmitted virus, HPV? Do you think it is:

20%, 60%, 80%, or 120%?

The answer is 80%.

There is no cure for HPV, and 4 out of every 5 women currently have HPV.

So often, people think they can play around sexually with the odds. But the odds are against you, and the statistics have proven that. And if we learn anything from history thus far, it is only that if we maintain this present course, the odds will only continue to get worse. So don’t tell me that you’ll beat the odds. Do you know why you won’t? Because you will go all the way through high school and college thinking you have beat the odds, until you about 28-30. You’ll get a blood test for something else, and you’ll have to go home to your spouse and say “I’m infected.” So many STD’s stay dormant for years before showing symptoms or affecting you, and by the time you realize you have it, it is too late.

INTERVIEW: Freda McKissic Bush, MDD, FACOG, Medical Institute for Sexual Health

“How do I know if I’m ready to have sex? Sex is one of the most intimate relationships you’ll have with another person. Are you ready for that? Knowing that you will be a part of that person’s life forever, whether it’s imprinted physically, or whether there’s an imprint in your brain, you have to decide for yourself, but also for the other person. Are you ready to take the risk for STD’s? Condoms, we’ve decided, are not safe enough. Are you ready for pregnancy or any of the other consequences of sex? The songs and the movies don’t talk about consequences like that, but are you ready to change your future forever?”

2. What is the most common STD?

I’ll show you the top six.

1. Chlamydia: 2,800,000 people every year.

2. Genital Herpes: 1,000,000 people every year. It is also called HSV, and there is no cure for it. Currently, more than 40,000,000 Americans have it.

3. Crabs: Also known as Pelvic Lice. These suckers are pretty nasty. 3,000,000 people every year will acquire this in the U.S.

4. Trichomoniasis: 7,000,000 people every year.

5. HIV: 46,000 people every year.

6. HPV: Human Papilloma Virus. The Center for Disease Control [www.cdc.gov], says that HPV is the number one sexually transmitted disease in America and the world. 6,200,000 people every year will acquire this in the U.S.

The reason HPV is ranked higher than Trichomoniasis, even though it affects less people, is because Trichomoniasis is quite easy to cure. There is no cure for HPV. Also take note of this: There is NO TEST that you can take to determine if you have HPV. The only way you can tell if you have it is by the symptoms, and it stays concealed within the human body for about 10 to 12 years before emerging. I think quite a few current high school and college students will wake up to a surprise one day 10 years from now.

-Currently, 20,000,000 Americans are diagnosed with HPV. Now here is a fact that not many are aware of.

-In the last 5 years, HPV has killed more women than HIV and AIDS. HPV is the Number 1 STD in the world, there is no cure, and women don’t even know anything about it.

-So think about it. 20,000,000 Americans have it, and 6,200,000 more Americans get it every year.

-Multiply that out and it comes out to 50%.

-1 out of every 2 sexually active Americans, who have ever had sex, even if it was only one time, will be infected. And no one is talking about it.

–28.6% of All American women right now, are currently infected with HPV. It is killing more women than HIV and AIDS, and it is passed on 10 times faster. It is 10 times more efficient than AIDS and HIV.

Everyone is always talking about HIV and AIDS, yet it is HPV that is killing more. It’s passed on, and you don’t realize it for 10+ years. 98-99% show no symptoms. If you have a very strong immune system, your body can fight off some of it right away without you even knowing about it. But it’s the larger percentage that will never leave your body that will do the bad damage.

So many teens and young adults consider themselves to be knowledgeable about sex. There was a study done in Canada, and 90% of Canadian teenagers, which is probably similar to here in America, consider them to be knowledgeable about sex. But do you want to know how ignorant they actually are about the matter?

-Only 19% have even heard of HPV.

-Only 20% knew that cancer was one of the consequences of HPV.

–80% don’t even know that the number one STD is killing more women than HIV and AIDS.

So many young people in our society think they know all they need to know about sex and the consequences, and in reality, they have NO IDEA. Most of us are completely unaware of how our brains work, operate, what bonds you to somebody else, what gives you the thrill, the excitement, and how to control it.

INTERVIEW: Pam Stenzel, M.A. Founder, Enlighten Communications. Author of “Nobody Told Me: What You Need to Know About the Physical and Emotional Consequences of Sex Outside of Marriage”

“For about nine years I counseled in crisis pregnancy centers in Minneapolis and for nine years I would have girls in my office every day saying, “Pam, I didn’t know. If someone would have told me that this is what was going to happen to me I would’ve made a different choice.” And I started to realize that there were a lot of students out there that were making the really tough choices about sex having absolutely no idea what the consequence of that choice would be.

The media always shows that you can just jump in and have sex with this person or that person and no one gets herpes. You might see a teen pregnancy but they kind of shove it to the side and the reality is that when you make a decision to have sex outside a monogamous relationship – outside of marriage – there will always be a cost. And it was sad that so many of these students didn’t fully understand the price that they were paying.”

How many different HPV viruses/diseases are there? Do you think it is:

40, 80, 100, or 120?

There are 100 different HPV viruses. 40 of them cause genital , sexual infectection. 18 of them are high risk for cancer. Of these 100, 30 of them are transmitted sexually. Add this to the previous number of 100 STD’s in total, and that number now becomes about 125 STD’s in total.

What percentage of women will have HPV by the age of 50? Do you think it is:

25%, 35%, 50%, or 72%?

50% of all women will have HPV by the time they are 50 years old. There is no cure, and it is killing more women that HIV and AIDS.

What percentage of sexually active men will get HPV? Do you think it is:

50%, 70%, 80%, or 90%?

The answer is 70%.

What are the chances of someone having an STD? Do you think it is:

20%, 30%, 40%, or 50%?

The answer is 50%. So take a look at your friends. You could probably pick out 5 friends, and 2 ½ of them are infected. And most of them probably don’t even realize it yet. And I bet many of them thought they could beat the odds too. If you think you can beat the odds, the statistics are stacked against you. It’s just like gambling in Las Vegas. Everyone who goes there think they can walk away with more money than they came with, when 94% walk away with less money.

52,000 Americans will get an STD today. 52,000 got them yesterday. 52,000 will get them tomorrow. Good luck beating the odds.

INTERVIEW: Pam Stenzel

“I would have girls come in to my crisis pregnancy center for a pregnancy test and they’re scared to death, and their biggest fear is that they might be pregnant, so one of the biggest myths that students believe is, is that the only thing that could happen if they have sex outside of marriage is that they could get pregnant. And I would come in and I would do a negative pregnancy test and look at this young girl and say, “Hey your test is negative” and she’d be like, “Thank goodness!” with this big look of relief and ready to leave my clinic, and I’d be like, “Wait a minute. Have you been tested for Syphilis, Gonorrhea, Herpes, Chlamydia, Trichomoniasis, Validalmia, Arthritis, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, HPV, HIV – have you been tested for these things?” And she’s like, “Me? Well, I didn’t think I would need to be tested for that.” And the reality is that you’re in here for a pregnancy test. If you’re having sex – which is what you’re telling me – you’re at risk for all these other diseases, it’s no just pregnancy.

And I think the other big myth that they have, which I find fascinating, is even the college girls would come in and we’d go through the same thing, and I’d say, “Your test is negative but now you need an OBGYN, you need a pap smear, you need a blood test, you need to be tested for STD’s” and these girls would be like, “Well, I was drunk.” I’m like, “Ummm…did you think Herpes asks now, “Excuse me, are you sober or drunk – because we only infect sober people?”

I mean, just because you’re drunk does not mean that the consequence of the decision – or lack of the decision – but the consequence of having sex is going to be any less or not there. So, I think there’s just this biggest myth for kids, is that they think, “I can do these things – either I’m copying the behavior I’m seeing from the media or I’m doing what everybody else seems to be doing – and this disease won’t happen to me or this consequence won’t happen to me.”

And part of the problem is that it’s not tattooed to their forehead. I mean 1 in 4 students in the United States is infected with an STD. The problem is that you can’t see it. So, if you can’t see it, it doesn’t exist. As long as when they get up the next morning if they don’t feel like they have a symptom, then they’re not infected. The reality is that it’s very different. And a lot of these students are infected and they don’t even know it.”

Who has the highest HPV rate? Is it:

15-20 year olds, 20-24 year olds, or 25-27 year olds?

The answer is 20-24 year olds. 26.8% are infected.

INTERVIEW: Pam Stenzel

“Right now in the United States sexually transmitted disease is a huge epidemic. We have 14,000 teenagers infected every day. When we include the college population through about age 22, we have 38,000 newly infected students every day. If you would have graduated from high school in 1967, 1 in 32 of your classmates would’ve been infected with an STD. You would have had the have had a few partners before you came in contact with it. If you would have graduated with me in 1982, 1 in 18 of my classmates was infected. Today, it’s 1 in 4. One fourth of our kids are infected, so it does not take that – you know – you have two partners and you’ve been exposed to STDs. That’s all it takes and so that’s really the problem.”

How many people are infected with genital herpes? Is it:

45,000,000,    55,000,000,   or   62,000,000 Americans?

The answer is 45,000,000. And there is no cure.

How many people are are infected with genital herpes over 11 years of age?

The answer is 1 in 5.

INTERVIEW: Freda McKissic Bush, MD, FACOG, Medicatl Institute for Sexual Health

“What’s the big deal about STDs? Aren’t they curable?

STDs are a big deal. If you get one, it’s a viral infection and you may have it for life. If you get one and it’s a bacterial infection, we may treat the bacteria and cure it, but the effects may still be in your body, such as gonorrhea and Chlamydia can cause pelvic inflammatory disease, which would make it impossible for you to get pregnant in the future. Viral infections sometimes can be release by your body, but if they’re not, then you have those infections for life.”

3. How prevalent is HPV among university women?

63% of University women, who have ever had sex at any point in their lives, are currently infected with HPV. And there is no cure. It is killing more women than HIV and AIDS, and yet nobody talks about it.

At Rutgers University, 60% of women who have ever had sex at any point in their lives, are currently infected with HSV, genital herpes. The statistic is the same at almost every university. At one such university, there were 7,800 students currently enrolled who were registered at the health department as having HSV.

4. Do women get more STD’s than men?

Women are twice as likely to get STDs than men. One report showed that 21% of women were infected with genital herpes, whereas only 11.5% of men were infected. So why exactly is that?

Most of these STDs are viruses. Viruses incubate, multiply, and grow in an environment that is non-oxygen, warm, and moist. A man’s penis does not have those characteristics, but a woman’s vagina definitely does. When a man pulls out, the oxygen would destroy much of it. Yet, it stays within the woman where there is a non-oxygen, warm, moist area, which is like a factory for STD viruses. That’s why women are so much more at risk than men.

INTERVIEW: Pam Stenzel

“I think one of the big things that teenagers don’t fully understand is this, that out of the 30 (we have 30 major STDs) and out of the 30 major sexually transmitted diseases that we have, 26 of them primarily damage women. Girls always pay the higher price and girls are like, “Well, that’s not fair! I make the same choice and I’m the one who has to pay!” And it’s typically within their fertility – Chlamydia causes infertility in women through scarred fallopian tubes, through scarred uterine lining. We have, obviously, cervical cancer that doesn’t happen to men (they don’t have a cervix) so that cancer is the result of HPV that is primarily affecting women – not only death but also their ability to have children.

So, at the end of the day, women, especially with fertility, are going to pay this huge price. They’re going to find out that he went on – graduated from high school and met another girl, married her and had a family. She is sterile and can now never have children. And girls are like, “Well, that’s not fair.”

Well, in case you missed this, in sixth grade human reproduction and anatomy – we’re different! Boys and girls’ bodies are not the same. Girls, we have an open sexual system. The men, the boys, have closed sexual systems. We’re easier to infect and we’re easier to damage. It’s the way we were made.”

5. Is it true that young people get more STD’s than any other group?

-The ‘young’ group to which I am referring is people aged from 12-25 years.

-This comes out to 17% of the total population. Of this group, 48% have STDs.

-That comes out to 19,000,000 STDs contracted every year in the U.S.

-Of teens aged 13-19, it is approximately 3,000,000 STDs per year.

-Of ages 15-24, the number is 9,100,000.

-That’s 50% of all STD’s, and they are found in only 17% of the population.

–24,900 of 15-24 year olds get an STD every day.

-That comes out to 1,039 per hour.

Within two years of having sex for the first time, how many teens will get infected? Do you think it is:

10%, 30%, 50%, or 70%?

The answer is 50% of teens will get infected within the first two years of having sex.

What percentage of sexually active teens will get an STD every year? Is it:

10%, 15%, 20%, or 25%?

The answer is 25% every year. And that’s not out of four years of high school. That’s every year of high school.

How many sexually active teenagers are infected right now? Is it:

15%, 23%, 28%, or 40%?

The answer is 40%.

So why exactly are teens more susceptive to STDs? It’s because of the way we were created, and your sexual areas. For the females, it is the tissue lining in their cervix. A young girl has a large amount of columnar cells, which are exposed throughout the entire cervix lining. As you get older, the cells are layered over with squamous epithelium cells. They form layers, and they aren’t don’t forming until age 23-27.

So what does this have to do with anything? Well the columnar cells that are exposed to begin with are 80% more receptive to viruses and infections than the squamous epithelium cells that form in a person in their mid-to-late twenties. So when a younger female has sex, the tissue lining in her cervix is not fully formed, and the lining actually acts as a suction cup, literally drawing whatever viruses the partner has, directly into their body and/or bloodstream.

When a female gets to her mid-20’s, the tissue lining hardens, and then begins to have a better chance of rejecting the viruses. And then you have those who consider themselves to still be virgins if they only partook in oral or anal sex. But they couldn’t be more in the wrong.

The tissue lining in the mouth and the anus never changes from columnar cells. Do you understand that? They are never reinforced, and continually acts as a suction for viruses throughout your entire life. The viruses are transmitted directly into your bloodstream. And here you have so many people thinking oral sex is ‘safe’ simply because you cannot get pregnant from it.

This is another reason why so many young people are acquiring STDs, even if they say they are virgins. Because the truth of the matter is, oral and anal sex is sex too, and you are just as susceptible to STDs, especially if you are a girl.

In fact, a teenager is 80% more likely to get an STD than somebody over the age of 25.

6. Won’t condoms reduce the risk of getting an STD?

The answer is yes and no, but mainly no. They work better for diseases like HIV, where the effectiveness can go from 40 to about 70% effectiveness. But for the most part, why is it that condoms are entirely ineffective in stopping the transmission of STDs? It’s because 19 of the major STDs are viruses, and not bacterial. And therefore, they are passed by areas of the body that are not even covered by a condom.

HPV, which is a virus, is the perfect example, and it is passed by moisture around your private sexual areas, that are not covered by a condom. You could be wearing 100 condoms, and it wouldn’t make any difference in the prevention of most STDs. HPV is 10 times more effective than HIV and AIDS.

Now get this; a university study showed that of all the men and women on campus who were infected with HPV, of those who did not wear a condom during sex, 44% were infected with HPV within just 3 acts of sex.

Now, for those who did wear condoms, 42% were still infected. That’s only 2% efficiency with wearing a condom.

Not only that, but do you know what the condom failure rate actually is, for the use of preventing pregnancy? The actual number for the average woman 20-24 years old, in the first twelve months, there was a 31% failure rate.

A pack of Trojan condoms has a slogan saying, “America’s #1 condom, trusted for over eighty years. If used properly (and keep in mind there are probably many people who use them improperly when they are all caught up in the heat of the moment), latex condoms will help to reduce (help to reduce, not eliminate) the risk of transmission of HIV infection, AIDS, and many other sexually transmitted diseases.”

But think about. It can only be talking about 6 other STDs, as 20 of the major STDs are not stopped by the use of a condom. It doesn’t even mention HPV. It also says that it is “highly effective against pregnancy.” But what they don’t tell you is that there is an actual 31% failure rate for the average 20-24 year old!

Did you know that the U.S. government rejects 20% of comdons that are imported to the U.S., due to damages done to the boxes in shipping? But think of all of the boxes here and there that mistakenly slipped through, if literally 1 in every 5 boxes are rejected because they are faulty.

In America, it is the FDA, Food and Drug Administration, which must approve all medical devices. And the FDA, and the U.S. Government, will actually not certify condoms, due to the actual statistics of their high failure rate.

When dealing with a virus like HPV, do you know what a doctor has to wear? You must first put on a special gown. Then you must wear a head covering. Then you must wear boot coverings. Then you must put on latex gloves. Then you must wear a face mask. And then you must wear goggles. Now, that is what doctors must wear in order to protect themselves from HPV. Do you know what you’ve been told all your life? That the only thing you need to wear to protect from it is a condom. You’ve been lied to your entire life.

7. Even though neither of us have symptoms, can we still have an STD?

You better believe it! HPV itself stays hidden for 10-12 years on average before showing symptoms. With Chlamydia, 85% of women, and 40% of men, have no symptoms, but yet pass it on. With HSV II, genital herpes, 90% show no symptoms. With HIV and AIDS, you can go 10-15 years, while it continues to incubate in your body, you continue to pass it on, and all without you showing any symptoms.

INTERVIEW: Freda McKissic Bush, MD, FACOG, Medical Institute for Sexual Health

“Is it possible to have an STD and not have any visible symptoms? If so, how will I know my partner is infected? Actually, 75% of Chlamydia infections have no symptoms at all, 90% of herpes and HPV have no symptoms, and even 1 in 4 persons with HIV have no symptoms. The person with the infection may not know they have symptoms or infection at all. It’s important, if you’ve had sex, to go get tested. Or if you’re thinking about having sex, go with your potential partner and be tested. Go back for results and if they do not want to do that, you have a decision to make. Run!”

So many young people today look at sex with a credit card approach – play now, and pay later. God said, “Avoid sexual immorality. It’s the one sin you commit against your body.” That was an act of love by God! That’s God telling you that He loves you so much, that He wants to protect and provide for you to have the most unbelievable experience in sex when the time is right! Why would you want to jeopardize all of the many wonderful years you can have with your spouse, for just a few single years of fun that you will ultimately pay for later?

INTERVIEW: Pam Stenzel

“I think myths about sex and the consequences and for students not really fully understanding the price tag that they’re going to pay if they get involved sexually, come primarily from the media because they are so bombarded with sex on such a regular basis. I mean, students are watching, you know, everything from the MTV “Shot at Love” show to “The Bachelor” – they’re watching kids jump in and out of bed with each other and having sex and no one ever, ever gets a disease.

That’s why I used to tease that if Herpes or HIV or human papilloma virus or Chlamydia were tattooed to your forehead, if the minute that you were infected there was something in your face, we would not have an STD problem. Because all the kids would show up in school and then they would go, “Oh my goodness they have that disease!”

In fact, most STDs don’t have any physical symptoms so teenagers believe that. “If I don’t have a symptom then I’m not infected.” And I tease them, students will come up to me after I speak in their school and they’ll go, “Well, you need to come and speak to my school because we have eight girls pregnant, but I don’t know anyone in my school who’s got a disease.” And I go, “Really? First of all, your friends aren’t getting tested and even if they were they wouldn’t tell you!” I mean, do you really think they’re going to show up at the lunch room and go, “Hey, talked to the doctor yesterday, went to the doctor, and found out that I have Herpes. Tell everybody by lunch.”

I tease kids and tell them that maybe we can do this on the announcements from now on at your school every Monday morning. “The following students contracted an STD over the weekend. They are:…..” I mean, that’s not going to happen, so pregnancy is the biggest fear because it’s the most visible.

8. Can’t you get a shot or take an antibiotic if you get an STD?

For 19 of the 25 main STDs, there is no cure, so no, there is no antibiotic or shot that you can just take to keep yourself safe. Now for several of the STDs there are some treatments that can be done, but many of them are long, painful treatments over a long length of time…and it was all for that one quick moment of an orgasm.

But maybe you have heard, “Well, there is a vaccination for HPV.” And yes, there is. There is none for men, but yes there is one for women, but it must be taken when you are young, and if you have already contracted HPV, it will do you no good. And also since there is no test that can be taken to determine if you have HPV, the chances are not so good. The vaccination itself is only 70% effective, 30% ineffective. I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t want to be taking those kinds of chances.

There is absolutely no evidence whatsoever that says that the vaccine will reduce the risk of cervical cancer caused by other HPVs. It only deals with several of the HPV viruses, but not all of the ones that deal with cancer. There is also no evidence that it will reduce the risk of STDs.

Did you know that there are 100,000 women in the U.S. right now between the ages of 15 and 25, who will never be able to have children? Good luck beating the odds.

9. Is it difficult to get an STD?

50% of everyone who has ever had sex outside of marriage will get an STD. That’s the minimum! The government and Planned Parenthood are pretty ridiculous. They think we should train each other to ask questions and ask if the other person is infected before you sleep with them. But seriously, imagine that you are caught up in the moment amidst all of your sexual lust, are you really going to stop and ask? Or what about the jerk guy who doesn’t care about you, and is only looking to get laid? He doesn’t care about what he might be passing on to you. Of course he is going to say he is not infected!

An arouse hormone in your brain does not have any sense of morality or a conscience. In fact, one study showed that 90% of guys lie to girls, when they are asked if they have STDs.

A study at the University of California Los Angeles, showed that in just one act of sex, many students are actually contracting five different STD’s. Just from one act of sex. In fact, the doctors have said that in general, when one STD is discovered, if the time and money is spent, there are usually 3 or 4 more STDs that can be found in that one person’s body.

When God said, “Don’t have sex until marriage,” he wasn’t trying to take the fun out of your life. He was trying to protect you! He loves you that much, and wants you to experience His gift of sex when it can be at it’s maximum, and that is with your spouse!

That’s what true sexual freedom is! When you have it in marriage, when you have stayed pure. You don’t have to worry about antibiotics or condoms or diseases or anything else. That’s what true sexual freedom is. It doesn’t cost you to wait. It costs you when you don’t wait!

And don’t ever have the excuse, “well, it just happened!” Get real now. Sex doesn’t “just happen.” It’s the result of a choice. (With the exception of rape.) Don’t ever forget it!

10. Can oral sex and STD’s lead to serious illnesses like cancer?

Yes, and in quite a big way. UCLA Medical Center is one of the top medical centers in the world that deals with STDs, and they have made the following observation. Cervical Cancer is not an epidemic, it is a pandemic. In all cases of cervical cancer, up to 99% of all of them, found the presences of the sexually transmitted virus of HPV. The Centers for Disease Control made the statement that “sex is a cancer-producing activity.” 30% of cervical cancers are not stopped by the HPV vaccine.

There are 100 strains of HPV. 40 of them cause genital infections. 14 are high risk for cervical cancer, and the vaccine only deals with a few of them, and there is no vaccine at all for men. An individual who has an HPV infection is 3200 times more likely to develop throat cancer. The greatest risks for cervical cancer are early sexual activity and multiple sexual partners.

INTERVIEW: Pam Stenzel

“Even when Hollywood does, even when one of the stars ends up – there’s a couple of them that have had HPV and cervical cancer – and they’ll talk about having cervical cancer (I think Brooke Shields came out and talked all about her cervical cancer) but she didn’t explain that that cervical cancer that she had was a result of a sexually transmitted disease which was a result of choices she made going into it. So there’s no connecting of the dots to the infertility or the cervical cancer or the STD infection. So when you’re seeing people do the behavior day after day without ever paying a price, you begin to believe that you’re invincible and that won’t happen to you. And students already have that problem, just because of their age.”

11. Can you get an STD if you are on the Pill?

Of course you can! The Pill has absolutely nothing to do with the covering of your sexual areas. You could take 100 pills, and you could still get an STD.

I now want to show you the Sexual Exposure Chart. Take a look at this:

http://www.prabilene.com/exposure.html

This is the sexual exposure chart. It shows how many people you are really exposed to, based on how many sexual partners you have had, IF the people you had sex with ONLY had sex with the same amount as you. If they had more partners before you than you had, than the number increases significantly. If you stay a virgin until marriage, you are only exposed to that one other person.

2 partners, exposed to 3 other people, 3 partners, exposed to 7 people, 4 partners, exposed to 15 people, 5 partners, exposed to 31 people, 6 partners, exposed to 63 people, 7 partners, exposed to 127 people, 8 partners, exposed to 255 people, 9 partners, exposed to 511 people, 10 partners, exposed to 1023 people, 11 partners, exposed to 2047 people, 12 partners, exposed to 4095 people, and the list keeps on going.

For those of you living the promiscuous lifestyle that you are living, are you aware of how many people you are truly exposed to every time you have sex with someone else? Are you aware of how many sexual partners your new partner has had before you? Are you aware that 8,000 teens contract a new STD everyday? Are you aware of the now hundreds of STD’s that have mutated and evolved over the past few decades that now face us? Are you aware that while you may get tested for an STD, certain STD’s remain dormant and don’t show up until a later time in life? Chances are you were probably not aware of all of that. Maybe now that you are, you might consider changing the way you are living your life.

“When you have sex with someone, you are having sex with everyone they have had sex with for the last ten years, and everyone they and their partners have had sex with for the last ten years.” – C. Everett Koop, M.D., Former U.S. Surgeon General

12. How can I avoid getting an STD?

Even science agrees on this matter. Only a monogamous relationship (where you only have sex with one other person) will prevent you from getting any type of STD. It’s when either the man or woman is not monogamous when it all falls apart.

I realize that many of these statistics that I have shown you are quite shocking. But it’s the truth. There is a real danger by living a promiscuous lifestyle. It literally is a matter of life and death. I hope this has helped educate you on the real risks, and I hope that you will share this information with others, so that we can save marriages, save futures, and save lives.

(For more information, including all of the source information from which this was taken, please take a look at the following)_

http://www.josh.org/wp-content/uploads/BareFactsNotesforWeb.pdf

http://www.josh.org/bare-facts-research/

http://www.josh.org/wp-content/uploads/BareFacts-FinalFormatted.pdf

http://www.josh.org/pages/sex-is-everywhere/

http://www.prabilene.com/exposure.html