ZARA
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Original site: Slut-Shaming is Driving Up STD Rates
That slut-shaming intersects with and hurts efforts to prevent sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) might surprise you.
…The impact is, generally speaking, an increase in STD transmission rates.
...I had had a number of boyfriends by the age of 16—you know, those two-month-long high-school relationships that don’t really mean much—...
...The following spring, I contracted genital herpes. Embarrassed and mired in self-imposed stigma, I wanted to redeem myself by going back to church...
...During our youth group’s spring break bus trip to Myrtle Beach, my best friend and I met a pair of Marines on leave and snuck away to flirt and make out with them on the beach...
…One of those girls and I became very close; I told her about my genital herpes infection.
…People will continue to feel shame about their sexuality, their sexual health will suffer, and STDs will persist…
Linked from Yahoo: Is 'Slut-Shaming' Contributing to the Rise of STDs?
This entire article had me .
1. How does being publically embarrassed about sexual activity increase the STD rates? WTH? Did it make the person become even more sexually active and stupid in not taking proper precautions??
2. By the time she was 17, or almost 17, she contracted an STD.
3. She was in a religious youth group. She went to church. So she was taught the morals of no premarital sex.
4. No mention of taking sex-ed and no mention of parental guidance.
5. Why would a person tell anyone, other than their sexual partner, that they have an STD?
I have a solution, keep the wrappers on projectiles and keep a penny between the knees. Yes, I’m a tad old school. Am I the only one that finds this article as useless drivel?