How many people contract an STD on average

How many people contract an STD on average a year

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8000 teenagers contract an STD every day. ChaCha!

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I would like to know how this works……(Very interesting question)?

Q: because its not something you can easily ask somebody. I’ve known many cases like this. Say a couple meet and start dating. Maybe 3 months, 6months, a year later, the woman becomes pregnant, either accidentally or she actually wanted it to happen. Do many couples on average, discuss their sexual history and the possibility of whether either of them should get tested for STD’s before ANY of this happens? I mean once the pregnancy occurs, thats it, if either of them had an STD, then the other one has contracted it too, as unprotected sex has obviously been had. I’m just wondering how many couples actually think about these things before a pregnancy occurs. Is it something that doesn’t even get discussed? Or do more people than I think go as a couple to get tested early on in relationships, only obviously they don’t shout it from the rooftops!! I’m interested to know.

A: well i think that people check whether they have an STD or not even if they’re not in a relationship just in case…and once anyone finds out that they’ve got an STD they wouldn’t go around spreading it(well unless they’ve got psychological problems)

Do you find comments like “he should have kept it in his pants” offensive?

Q: Usually on any question relating to child support, or abortion, or in fact any type of question about responsibility for children is posted, someone chimes in:”well he should have kept it in his pants”Now, where I come from, consensual sex is the norm, the choice to get ones pants off is made by two people not one.And isn’t it interesting how the people who post this kind of dross tend to also believe in abstinence based contraception, while at the same time doing their best to scare people into believing that any sex before marriage will punish the woman with pregnancy, and probably give everyone an STD to boot.What these people don’t want known is that many of us who “don’t keep it in our pants” don’t spread diseases or inflict unwanted children on ourselves or our partners because we use this new fangled and highly effective thing called birth control, which in its male variety is also very effective at stopping STDs from being transmitted.Perhaps thats the reason that despite having twice as many sexual partners as Americans on average, Australians are 3 times LESS likely to contract STDs.The puritanical “keep it in his pants” idiots don’t dominate our public education system, or our airwaves. Nor is the hateful lunacy of wanting to punish ungodly sinners with terminal diseases and unwanted children a particular aspect of the typical mindset here.Nor do the “keep it in his pants” brigade seem to have much of a sense of irony when their iconic standard bearers, people like Sarah Palin, fall short of the standards they espouse.Do you find comments like “he should have kept it in his pants” offensive?

A: offensive isn’t the best word. ignorant, unrealistic, judgmental… these terms all come to mind. people will always have sex, it’s what we do. and to tell people to keep it in their pants especially after the fact is just cruel and stupid. yet another way of putting one human on the sub-par list so they themselves can feel clever and pious. idiots….