Chlamydia is a sexually transmitted disease (STD) caused by the bacteria Chlamydia trachomatis (" About Chlamydia."). When transmitted through sexual contact, the bacteria can infect the urinary and reproductive organs ("About Chlamydia."). It is a common sexually transmitted disease that can infect both men and women ("Chlamydia - CDC Fact Sheet."). It is the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States ("Chlamydia: MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia."). People who are sexually active and people with multiple partners are at highest risk ("Chlamydia: MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia."). People can get chlamydia by having anal, vaginal, or oral sex with someone who has chlamydia ("Chlamydia - CDC Fact Sheet."). It is odd that such a disease that could be so easily prevented and avoided is usually ignored with no precautions. Chlamydia can lead to many short term and long term symptoms.
Many teenagers now a days participate in engaging in unprotected sex. A recent study by the Sex Information and Education Council of Canada stated that nearly 50% of sexually active college students aren’t using condoms (Why Teens Aren't Practicing Safe Sex."). On a website teenagers or people who did not practice safe sex when they were teenagers talked about the reasons why they did not. One excuse they said was that they were not able to afford the condoms. This is true in some cases but typically clinics provide free condoms. It is true when there are no clinics close around but commonly they are located near bigger communities. Another excuse they mentioned was that the condoms were embarrassing to buy and did not feel as good. Saying that condoms are embarrassing to buy is absolutely unjustifiable. Would it not be more em...
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... want the person they were going to have sex with be the only person they would have sex with. Also in christian faith, condoms are not in the highest favor. But if you are married most likely a family will start, so condoms would not be necessary. By having sex with only one person, your spouse, there is a very low chance of obtaining a Sexually Transmitted Disease. Having an Sexually Transmitted Disease would really scare me since I would not want any of the symptoms to affect my lifestyle but the thing is the symptoms can become a constant presence in my life if I were to have STD’s. There are many high risk in having unprotected sex and people need to be aware of who their partners are so that their risk of them getting a Sexually Transmitted Disease can decrease. No one wants to get a Sexually Transmitted Disease so people must be wise with their decisions.
In the article “Condom: New Diploma”, Rush Limbaugh leads this article to one of the issues with public education lately. Condoms being distributed in the school, promoting sexual activity in teens, without proper knowledge. The mindset that since kids are going to do it, why not provide them the protection. Justifying the reasoning behind handing out condoms. This thinking open doors to why not create everything safe from drugs to safe sex. Boys now having access to condoms are urging girls to have sex, even if the girls are not ready. Chaperones purpose was to monitor and keep girls safe from the pursuit of eager young men. This is not the case anymore within the campuses. Adults recognize the consequences to having sex, knowing this they
Chlamydia is a sexually transmitted disease caused by the bacteria of Chlamydia trachomatis. This STD can be described as a small parasitic bacterium, similar to a virus. Chlamydia undergoes a series of developmental forming while multiplying by binary fission. This cycle involves 2 cells, a large and a small. The small cell remains in its state of whole in vacuoles bound by membranes coming from the surface of the host cell....
A more relatable article, “Condom Distribution in High School” - A Rebuttal” by Robert N. Rowe, a writer and consultant, stands firmly in favor of distributing condoms to high school students and comments directly on Gow’s article. Rowe clearly states, “Granted, they are the most logical and desirable sources, but what if a student has incompetent or perhaps no parental guidance and has little if any access to a physician? Schools have acted in loco parentis ever since public education first evolved. Why should it stop now during a devastating health crisis?” While Gow believes that parents and physicians are the accountable ones for providing students with the proper information and materials about sexually transmitted diseases, Rowe sees
Condoms are more effective if teens are taught about sex education. Condoms are an important factor in preventing teenage pregnancy. Many people believe that the number of teen pregnancies would drop if schools would distribute condoms. Condoms are safe, cheap, and easy to use. The reason to distribute condoms is not ...
Reminiscing about my high school days I can remember the pressure there was to have sex. Within the male high school community, having sex was a “right of passage”. As we all know this attitude was very wrong. There are many issues that affect young people these days. One of these one in three sexually active people will have contracted an STD. The numbers about other birth control methods don’t lie either. Eight to nine percent of adolescents used a condom always for STD prevention and seventeen percent used a condom to prevent contraception. Condoms do offer more protection against those STD’s spread by fluids such as Chlamydia, Gonorrhea and HIV. Condoms do however offer less protection for those STD’s spread by skin-to-skin contact such as Herpes and Syphilis. The use of condoms in preventing contraception and STD’s is not as safe as choosing to abstain from sex altogether.
My research paper is about why high schools should provide condoms for students, along with comprehensive sexual education programs. I hope to enlighten the reader about sexual education in high school by answering these questions: How will providing condoms keep students safe? Will sexual education benefit kids? And finally, did not having sex ed affect the generation before us? My view is that most teens are going to have sex, it’s natural and instinctual, but making teens less ignorant about sex and provide them with a way to practice safer sex will result in less teenage pregnancies, STDs, and smarter choices regarding sex. The articles I chose are medically accurate and provide reasons to support sex ed programs and why it’s important to talk to teens about healthy sexual choices.
Teens walk out of abstinence-only classes having been taught that condoms are dangerous, instead of the importance of using them correctly and consistently if they decide that abstinence isn’t the path for them. In her article “Mixed Marks for Sex Education Classes,” Karen Kaplan reveals that only 70 percent of students are taught the importance of proper condom use, 60 percent are taught where they can find them, and a measly 54 percent learn how to use them correctly. Kaplan goes on to say that 95 percent of students learn about STDs. That leaves 25 percent of the future of our nation without knowing where to go to get protection from STDs, and 5 percent are not being taught about STDs at
Many questions and concerns have come about regarding this promotion of condoms being distributed in public schools. Will it lower teen pregnancy rates? Will condoms reduce sexually transmitted diseases? Will the distribution of condoms in public schools make students more sexually responsible? Who will fund these interventions? Some people believe teaching children and teens about abstinence is the best way to minimize pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases. Birth control is an alternative used to prevent pregnancy, not necessarily sexually transmitted diseases and using condoms is always a way to protect from diseases and unwanted pregnancies. With these different alternatives and many parents feel as if the program goes against their beliefs and values as a parent/guardian, implementation of the program is a legitimate way to reduce the new trend of pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.
Male teenagers who think they will be embarrassed buying or using condoms, use them less consistently than those with higher embarrassment thresholds. If they think that the use of a condom will reduce the physical pleasure associated with intercourse, they are even less likely to use condoms. Anticipated loss of pleasure is one of the strongest correlates of reduced condom use.
Today it is no longer a novelty to hear that teenagers are having sex. However, while this “bedroom” activity may be fun, there are now ample reports indicating that rates of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in teenagers have skyrocketed. Current data reveal that nearly 25% of adolescent girls who have sex are infected with one of the four commonly sexually transmitted infections-namely gonorrhea, chlamydia, herpes and HIV (Kann et al, 2015). Nationally, the prevalence of STDs account for 50% of cases in people under the age of 25. While every ethnic and race has been known to be affected, African American youth are disproportionately affected. These data are not a surprise to professionals who are engaged in adolescent sexual health because the numbers have been slowly creeping up over the decades, despite national educational policies to counter the threat of STDs (Sales & DiClemente, 2016). All the STDs have a significant impact on sexual and reproductive health, if they are mot promptly diagnosed and treated. Although many preventive strategies have been implemented in all communities, the rates of STDs are still increasing (Madkour et al, 2016).
“Don't have sex, because you will get pregnant and die! Don't have sex in the missionary position, don't have sex standing up, just don't do it, OK, promise? OK, now everybody take some rubbers.” This quote was said by Coach Carr in the movie Mean Girls and is similar to what teens are being told in schools around the country although there are some that leave out condoms altogether. Yet when a teenage girl does end up pregnant nobody asks if she had access to contraception or if she really understood the risks of having sex. Instead she is looked down upon because she “couldn’t control herself” or her parents “didn’t teach her well enough”; all of a sudden it’s somebody else’s problem and nobody wants the finger pointed at them. This is wrong on multiple levels. Throughout history teens have sneaked away to have sex and teaching abstinence-only is not the way to go about stopping them now. By not teaching teens to practice safe sex, we are setting them up to fail and when failing means the possibility of ending up with a transmitted disease or a baby, that is unacceptable.
Sexually Transmitted Diseases Sexually Transmitted Diseases STDs, a.k.a venereal diseases, infectious diseases passed from one person to another during sexual contact. STDs are the most common infections known. More than 12 million people in the United States, including 3 million teenagers, are infected with STDs every year. The United States has the highest STD rate in the world about one in ten Americans will contract an STD during his or her lifetime. People who do not know they are infected risk infecting their sexual partners and, in some cases, their unborn children. If left untreated, these diseases may cause pain or may destroy a woman's ability to have children. Some STDs can be cured with a single dose of antibiotics, but AIDS cannot be cured. Those most at risk for contracting STDs are people who have unprotected sex—without using a condom, people who have multiple partners, and people whose sex partners are drug users who share needles. Static’s show that Americans between the ages of 16 and 24 are most likely of catching STDs than older adults, because younger people usually have multiple sexual partners than an older person in a long-term relationship. Teenagers may be embarrassed to tell their sexual partners they are infected Teenagers may also be embarrassed or unable to seek medical attention for STDs. This means that they only more likely to pass the disease to other young people and have a greater risk of suffering the long-term consequences of untreated STDs. STDs are transmitted by infectious bacteria, viruses, parasites, fungi, and single-celled organisms called protozoa that live in warm, moist parts of the body, like the genital area, mouth, and throat. Most STDs are spread while having sex, but oral sex can also spread disease. Some STDs are passed from a mother to her child while pregnant, when the disease enters the baby's bloodstream, during childbirth as the baby passes through the birth canal, or after birth, when the baby drinks infected breast milk. AIDS can be transmitted by blood contact such as open wounds, between people who share infected needles or received through an injection of infected blood. Some people believe that STDs can be transmitted through shaking hands or other casual contact, or through contact with inanimate objects such as clothing or toilet seats, but they can’t. Chlamydeous, is from trachoma is bacterium, is the most commonly transmitted STD in the United States.
The topic of condom distribution in public schools has caused many heated debates throughout our country in the last decade. Proponents of distribution state that free condom distribution will ensure that teenagers will practice safe sex and that the rate of sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy will decline. Opponents of distribution state that free condom distribution will encourage sexual activity and foster the idea that premarital sex is acceptable. Judges in federal court have even considered whether or not condom distribution and sex education without prior parental notification violates parents' First and Fourteenth Amendment rights. The only viewpoint absent in a discussion of this very controversial topic is the one that holds the most value: the viewpoint of America's teenagers. Teenagers are the only ones who can fully explain why condom distribution fails to respond to the needs that foster sexual activity among young people.
“Forty-one percent of teens ages 18-19 said they know nothing about condoms, and seventy-five percent said they know nothing about the contraceptive pill” (Facts on American Teens). Even if schools taught just abstinence it still would not be enough. “In 2007, a study showed that abstinence only programs have no beneficial impact on the sexual behavior of young people” (Facts on American Teens). Sex education is not taken as seriously as it should be in schools, it is treated like it is not a big deal. Schools should require a sex education class that specifically teaches students about sex and goes into depth of all the possible consequences because of the high pregnancy, abortion, and virus rates.