Is America Sexually healthy?

Question

I mean is our country really getting told the truth about good sexual health or are we all being lied to by the media and school education and overcensorism. We have more higher divorce rate I think that any other nation and probobly more STDS and over consumption of drugs and should I mention an Obesity problem. How come the Europeans and other countries in the world can get it right and we can't?

Answer 1

Well...if you think the Europeans are all that then move there. I like it here and I think we have a good thing going.

See, look at the post a couple down from mine. He's calling us low brow??? Americans are great, we accept each other for who we are, not how cultured we can appear if we try really hard.

Answer 2

This is a perfectly valid and important question and i hope you won't let anyone like Ghost Lady deter you from asking things that are on your mind. Don't let others negativity ever prevent you from asking anything that comes from your heart and curiosity. If she is so hell bent for election about leaving what she considers intolerable she should flee from questions she finds offensive, beneath her or stupid and not weigh in with nasty answers.

Our health care in general is sub-par for everything. If one gets ill in Europe or Canada no one ever goes bankrupt, loses their home and everything they own. Here it happens everyday.

We can't forget the frightening measure that came up on the ballot last election period that would have made abortions, in California at least, legal for minors without parental permission and the edict in Texas that would have all female children innoculated for HPV and the parents would have no say in the matter. How chilling that we would allow such topics to ever be legislated.

We are not sexually healthy morally or physically in this country. Programs abound plentifully for after a person is pregnant or has contracted STDs but programs that educate about these things before they happen are sorely lacking. The statistics are appalling in this country. I don't think that the media's lying pertains here especially but school education is lacking and we have always overcensored things of sexual nature here except in movies where it is rampant. It needs to be brought up often and spoken about freely and not in infantile terms. We tend to be quite provincial in this respect.

Fortunately the obesity issue is being agressively addressed and i think we'll see some real progress on that front.

We really can take what other countries do and apply some of the better ideas. Our arrogance and snobbery has cost us dearly in many ways as is evident in front page news this week about the CIA doing very little when they were very aware of potential and looming terrorist attacks. We get way too comfortable in that we are a 'super power' and invincible so we bury our heads in the sand about attacks, sexual problems and anything else we'd rather not deal with as if they will go away by magic. We must keep rattling the cage until we make government of the people, by the people and for the people work as it was set up to be. They'll listen, they have in the past, unfortunately they makes us scream for it until they are shamed or out numbered enough that they have to do something when as our elected officials they shoud be serving us all along. We need to educate ourselves and make our desires known to those to whom we give the power to represent us and hold them accountable for what we want and we all need to vote.

Answer 3

Well, if our president stopped spending all of our funding on Abstience Only education and started putting a little more money into safe-sex education, and AIDS education, we'd be in a much better state....

We can only be so sexually healthy if our government refuses to teach it's kids what is actually the HEALTHY choices for them to make if they DO have sex (which MOST PEOPLE WILL DO... PRIOR to marriage)

The obesity problem has nothing to do with America's sexual health and is an entirely different issue.

Answer 4

Our country is being pulled too many different ways... We have a very vocal puritanical element in our society that tries to determine what's "best" for everyone. Europe, as a rule, has chosen not to allow religion to interfere with public policy. (Kudos to them!) Foolish programs, such as abstinence only sex ed (fatal JOKE that it is) are taught here. Sex is somehow dirty (but if you do the "crime" you have to do the time), unless of course if you are only having the "approved" forms of sex. There's still the undertone of "women should know their place". The clash between religious foolishness and facts cause the vast majority of our problems... We are being told what we "should" do and all to often it is different from what we know to be right...

Answer 5

Samet, you Europeans almost annihilated my people, so don't go around bragging that you're inherently morally superior because you're not. If it hadn't been for you guys, we wouldn't have HALF of the problems on this planet. Take your colonial ideas and go elsewhere.

We have our ways, other nations have theirs. They keep theirs and we keep ours. It's just a cultural difference, nothing more.

Answer 6

No, BUT there again it's a matter of choice. You can educate teach "Safe Sex" { I am not condoning sex outside of marriage} but is still ones choice. If we want to stop std"s then make different choices.

Answer 7

I think that sexual health is worse in Africa,Its every were, your own health is totaly up to you.Same with drugs,We cure this they cure that

Answer 8

The best way to stay healthy, such as avoiding STDs and so forth, is not to have sex. This is the message we should be sending.

Answer 9

Because people in the US are a bit daring the women act like men and cannot bow down to a man and adjust with him.

Answer 10

The Europeans made all these mistakes as well. They learned from them. We didn't.