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Here are the facts.
If you and your partner are exclusive to one another then you are exposed only to one sexual partner. But if you and your partner each have 2 others, then you're exposed to three partners. Three sexual partners exposes you to seven opportunities to contract an STD. Four partners exposes you to 15 others and so on and so on. If you decide in your lifetime to share yourself with 12 others, you are exposed to 4,095 opportunities to sexual disease. How do you think your odds are?
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You think you can protect yourself with a condom?
Well, condoms fail from 10%-36% to prevent pregnancy. Here's what some medical studies say:
- Condoms are useless in preventing human papilloma virus infections.
- Chlamydia transmission was the same between condom and non-condom users in a study at Rutgers University
- Condoms don't cover enough area to protect against some other STDs either.
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What are some common STDs?
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Viral -- Incurable
Human Papillomavirus (HPV)
Causes easily spreadable warts, genital cancers in both sexes, painful intercourse.
Warts difficult to get rid of. Main cause of cervical cancer.
Genital Herpes
Recurrent, painful, genital blisters,
but disease can be transmitted
even if sores not present.
Life-threatening for babies
born to mothers with fresh outbreak.
Hepatitis B
10 times more infectious than HIV,
common cause of liver cancer.
Produces symptomless carriers.
Pregnant mother can transmit to baby.
HIV/AIDS
HIV is contagious from the time acquired
even if not yet found by testing.
Mother may transmit to baby in utero
or in milk. HIV almost always results in AIDS, AIDS in death.
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Bacterial--Curable with right conditions
Syphilis
Very contagious sore (chancre)
that disappears untreated, yet disease
is only dormant. Reappears as months and years go by with serious results;
blindness, insanity, bone and heart damage, death. Mother can transmit to fetus.
Gonorrhea
Pus-producing infection that can also
affect other parts of the body:
rectum, eyes, heart, throat, joints, brain.
Chlamydeous (also viral characteristics)
Usually mild or no symptoms.
Can cause sterility in women and
permanent damage to male urinary tract.
Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID)
Female disease caused by another infection (usually Chlamydia or Gonorrhea) that travels up the reproductive tract to the pelvic, even abdominal cavity. Can result in chronic pain, sterility, tubal pregnancy, adhesions, death.
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INSECTS/PARASITES--Curable
Pubic lice
Adheres to pubic hair and passed on during sexual intercourse. Red, pimply areas that become infected.
Scabies
Mite that burrows into skin causing red, itching areas that can become infected.
Also passed by infested bedding and clothes.
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- 33,000 new cases of STDs happen every day in the U.S.
- 5 of the 10 most common diseases reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are STDs.
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- Cancer is linked to 3 STDs.
- Some STDs are not curable, some are fatal.
- An STD can change your life forever.
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HEY LADIES!!!
- STDs in women are more severe and leave more damage behind than STDs in men.
- The female body has a direct route from outside the body to vital organs on the inside plus the perfect, warm, moist, breeding ground for germs.
- Only women get pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) which can produce terrible internal damage, sterility, even death.
- Cervical cancer in young women has become a major problem. The probable cause of almost all cervical cancer is an extremely common STD--the human papilloma virus (HPV).
- Many women won't find out their female organs have been destroyed until they try to have a baby.
Then it's too late!
(facts are from The Silent Epidemic--California Nurses for Ethical Standards)
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