Sexually Transmitted Diseases are Wreaking Havock

Year by year people die due to sexually transmitted diseases. While some cases being only a simple infection, others can remain permanently and actually scar the carrier. For example: the illness herpes is reported by the CDC that 776,000 new cases overtake the United States annually. Many of these STDs are stated as some of the most difficult pain brought about by a time thought to be pleasurable. The name of these diseases states their origin. Each are spread through the genitals during sex, but many can be spread through other means, such as through blood, by touch, and tears in the mouth and anus. Symptoms include painful itchy blisters, growths, discharge, rashes and even burning redness. Not only do these happen soon after sexual activity and transmission, but they stay with the carrier for a long time or sometimes forever.
With these diseases wreaking havoc in the country, one would think the Government would be doing everything in their power to save its citizens from this modern-day plague, but instead, they sit idly by worrying about gun control laws and wars half-way across the globe. The Government honestly believes that it can trust its people to make the right decisions on their own; the sex-ed classes required in high school are supposed to teach young people how to make decisions to control their sexual urges. Coaches sometimes mention the negative effects of STDs and practicing safe sex with very few partners, or, preferably, abstinence throughout the course while relating stories of their own pleasurable sexual adventures during their high-school and college careers. This five-month course is intended to convince hormone-driven youth that sex is bad, even though the instructors make it ver...

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...s proven by our culture today, the American people cannot be trusted to be responsible for their own wellbeing. The people need a Big Brother to watch after them, and in more ways than just their sexual activities. Imagine if the government controlled what we could watch, buy, read, listen, learn, attend, want. The people would not have to be responsible for anything in their own lives; no one would have their rights infringed upon, because everyone basically believes what everyone else believes.
STDs are going to continue to run rampant through the country unless the Government will step in and fix the problem with such an obvious solution. The wishful thinking that the people can be trusted to practice abstinence, safe sex, and having few sexual partners is just that: wishful; citizens still need their Big Brother to stand beside them and guide them.