Why is it so many young (and not so young) people today still have unprotected sex? Why is it when you ask they say things like "i am on the pill" or "i am on the shot". Do you not realize that you can get more than just pregnant when you have sex? you can bring home things like Herpes, STD, HIV.
Come on people. Why are you not using condems everytime you have sex, there is no excuse? (not intended for people married of course, but still you never know what your partner does). Just because someone "looks" clean or says they are doesnt make it so. You cannot tell by outside looks whether someone has something. I always hear about women who dont know who the father of their baby is, hmmmm, that many sex partners and nere a condom in sight? Unacceptable!
2007-03-13 06:52:19 · 9 answers · asked by LoverOfQT 5 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ STDs
okay this is part rant, part question
2007-03-13 06:53:22 · update #1
Stigma, fear, 'it feels better without', misunderstanding. People are just not taught about condoms. Unfortunately we are a society taught that abstinence is the only way to go. So our young people are not being taught to use condoms or to protect themselves. That is why women and girls are the highest growing casuality of HIV. It is the number 1 killer of African American women and girls between the age of 18 and 24. Higher than cancer, heart disease, anything else. Parent and teachers need to DEMAND that our young people are being taught how to protect themselves. Good Luck!
2007-03-13 09:36:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Because it feels better. And because when you're very close to someone there's this sense that they're clean. Even if it's not always true, people instinctually tend to act like anyone they love is completely healthy and don't feel like they'll catch anything from them. It's like, when people have children they change their diapers and eat their leftover food and all sorts of things that would feel gross if it wasn't their children...
But some people just don't care, of course. And some people also just have no idea that STDs don't always show symptoms. Very few people actually know how many people have asymptomatic infections they can spread. High school sex education teaches about STDs by showing pictures of horrifying highly advanced genital disease to scare people without really explaining how MANY people have STDs and how most of them actually look completely normal. Most people seem to think that if they've been with someone a while and they don't show symptoms of anything, then they must be clean.
People also don't seem to realise that if they get tested for STDs, they still don't get tested for HPV and herpes... Those are hard/expensive/impossible to test for depending on the circumstance, and no one routinely tests asymptomatic people for those.
2007-03-13 07:50:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because like so many people they have this belief that it can never happen to them. Most people even now are extremely ignorant when it come to STD's they believe that as long as a person looks and acts healthy then they must be okay. Most people do not realize that their partner can have a disease and not have symptoms yet but still can pass it on. If our children where taught about these diseases in early junior high when they are taught about puberty then maybe the amount of STD would go down or if when a person tested positive they where fined and sent to a isolation camp until they where cured like people with leprocy were done (which was wrong because leprocy is hard to catch) maybe they would think twice before jumping in to bed with every Tom Dick or Harry Or Tara ,Beth and NAncy
2007-03-13 07:02:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because people don't believe something like that could ever happen to them. Or they claim they just don't like it. I have several stupid friends that do not use condoms because the person they are with tells them they are clean! I believe that people are not getting adequate sexual health education in schools. Preaching abstinence does work! Sorry! People are going to have sex no matter what. However, they should be prepared and safe when they do. In other words, I completely agree with you! It's unacceptable!
2007-03-13 07:02:13 · answer #4 · answered by KND 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
one reason could be that it interferes with spontaneity. especially for the really young people, they don't want to appear 'prepared'. if there is a young virgin that has condoms, they may be viewed negatively by their partner (or not be believed that they are virgins).
i don't buy into the 'it won't happen to me' theory that people have...i think they just aren't educated enough. later in life you start to learn that a lot of problems, like HIV, are incurable and all that. then you start to take more caution.
2007-03-13 17:47:06 · answer #5 · answered by simple 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because even with std's out there, the odds are still in your favor of not getting it vs. getting it. for exAmple, unprotected sex with an hiv person gives you a 1 in 500 chance of getting it. put on a condom and it shoots up to 1 in 10,000 or so...
2007-03-13 07:36:17 · answer #6 · answered by al e. c 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Amanda is nice, the spermicide is there only in case some happen to leak out. whether the condom breaks, you ought to take added measures to keep away from pregancy. do no longer count on the spermicide for that difficulty.
2016-11-25 00:43:44 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"It won't happen to me" syndrome. And just this once-itis.
2007-03-13 07:32:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
it feels better
2007-03-13 06:56:25 · answer #9 · answered by just curious (A.A.A.A.) 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋