1 in 4 Teenage Girls Has an STD (Part I)
It was big, scary, scientific news this week that one in four girls has an STD, which just goes to show almost everyone's got one so let's stop with the stigma and all get on the safety bus (boys included): wear condoms & use dental dams correctly every time and get tested regularly, whether you've got symptoms or not. But then blog-pigs like Perez miss the point entirely by shouting "We're filled with skanks!" Which led our spirited intern Kristen Rollins to send us this STD rant, which we couldn't agree with more:...
I am sick of there being a double standard with sex issues. News flash to everyone calling these girls w----s or skanks or whatever other nasty degrading words come to ignorant people's minds when they hear that kind of statistic: where do you think these girls got the STDs in the first place?! Guys!
Some of whom are probably cheating boyfriends who've had sex with way more people than their faithful girlfriends have. And I'm not trying to call people who have sex with a large number of people w----s, because that would make me as low as the people who call girls with STDs skanks, but if you're going to be sticking your goods in everyone in the neighborhood, wear a condom and get tested!
HPV was the most prevalent STD they found in the girls tested. Maybe they should start testing guys for HPV because they are the carriers of the infection. Ladies, odds are you're going to contract it. But it's not necessarily your fault because it's an infection that very rarely has any warning signs. So I don't know how you're a "skank" if you contract it unwittingly.
Men should be required to be responsible for what is growing on their penises and should get tested every six months to a year like we do and then maybe the cases of STDs found in women would be lowered. And how about someone holding a study testing 800-something men and see the number of STDs that pop up: if you're going to test girls, why not the guys?
I myself have been guilty of calling a girl or two a @#$% because of her number of partners, but that stops right now, because I'm sick of this stupid double standard. As long as you are safe and responsible, have sex with whomever you want, more power to you.
Stay tuned for our talk with Dr. Kate about some of the questions Kristen raises.
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