Feb 07 2010
When Did Unprotected Sex Become So Normal?
When Did Unprotected Sex Become So Normal? More and more people have become completely unsafe in the practices of sex.
People now a days have multiple partners, flings, one night stands and do not use condoms. Young men and women are taking huge sexual risks. STDs (sexually transmitted diseases)are on the rise and it just seems as though they think they are invincible. Like spider-man weaving webs and climbing walls, so are these groups of people that don’t believe that wrapping it up is a priority in their sexual life.
Young men and women believe that as long as a woman is on birth control, (which she is not most of the time) that having sex is not a risk. A risk from what though I ask you? You can still get pregnant, you can still get STDs, and you can still get HIV/AIDS. So tell me, what is the birth control protecting you from? I really want to know.
Women’s Health reveals how a casual attitude can have life-altering consequences.
I was reading an article where the young women said, “I don’t ask questions that I don’t want to know the answers to.” Well, I bet she will be asking for child support! She is currently sleeping with three men and doesn’t know any of their sexual pasts. And when they ask her she lies. Really why would any guy want to know that they aren’t the only one. She said in this article that having casual sex keeps her safe emotionally. You know the saying, “friends with benefits, or mating-without-dating.” It’s happening all the time. This is a very acceptable in our culture now.
Women are in this state of boozing themselves until they oblivious. Absolutely polluted which takes away all of her inhibitions. Sexual encounters just seem to happen when you look loose. The “easy look.” Where a man can buy her drinks with the knowledge that she is easy prey. Alcohol is usually involved because it makes you bold enough to act and feel a certain way. It throws all of our precautions away.
Plenty of young women today are stepping into active sex lives instead of being ambitious professionals pursuing time for traditional dating. “Sexually transmitted diseases and unplanned pregnancies are hugely on the rise,” says sex therapist Laura Berman, M.D., a clinical professor of psychiatry and OBGYN at Northwestern University. “Unprotected anal (which is equally as common as vaginal sex) and oral sex, being with multiple partners, not having regular testing or regular Pap smears, drinking…all of these things create a perfect storm for putting yourself at higher risk.”
It is so easy for a man to say that it just doesn’t feel the same during sexual intercourse, but it doesn’t feel the same when you are pregnant either. Women need to stop gambling their lives away. Abortions, morning after pills, the consequences are vast.
THE STD UPDATE:
Syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, herpes, HPV, HIV… not only are these sexually transmitted diseases all on the rise, according to a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), but they also pose “a particularly heavy burden on women.”
* Syphilis, once on the verge of elimination, increased 15.2 percent between 2006 and 2007 (the last year that data is available), and is now striking more women and their infants than ever.
* Reported cases of chlamydia (which can lead to infertility) and gonorrhea—estimated to represent only half of actual cases since so many go undiagnosed—were the highest in history in 2007, with the rate of chlamydia among women three times that of men.
* Females now account for more than a quarter of all new HIV/ AIDS diagnoses, with high-risk heterosexual contact the source of 80 percent of these newly diagnosed infections.
* Hepatitis B, which is 50 to 100 times more infectious than HIV, often causes no symptoms. People may not know they’re infected until they develop serious liver disease.
* And HPV—which is responsible for causing 70 percent of cervical cancer and 90 percent of genital warts cases—has become the most common STD on the planet, and it’s spreading at epidemic rates: About 25 million women in the U.S. are currently infected, according to the CDC, and another 6.2 million are newly diagnosed each year.
Tell me why is it that people are just not using protection? Why are we taking such common principles and teachings to sway our common sense? When did unprotected sex become so normal?
