{"id":76,"date":"2004-03-10T22:01:58","date_gmt":"2004-03-10T13:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/03\/10\/get-the-stds-not-the-sex\/"},"modified":"2005-10-11T19:57:11","modified_gmt":"2005-10-11T10:57:11","slug":"get-the-stds-not-the-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/03\/10\/get-the-stds-not-the-sex\/","title":{"rendered":"Get the STDs, not the Sex&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p \/>The trend in modern sexually-repressed conservative america these days, is to brainwash teenagers into proudly pledging abstinence, vowing to preserve their precious virginity for that special day where they&#8217;ll tie the knot&#8230; or get invited by the priest to join one of his exclusive, altar-boys-only, mass after-party&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/>In effect, promising to keep doing what they&#8217;d be doing anyway. That is: <i>not getting any<\/i>, for the entire duration of their ungrateful puberty phase.<\/p>\n<p \/>After all, they are only following official government policy regarding &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/pg\/04048\/274051.stm\">abstinence as the only viable way to prevent STDs<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p \/>Well the bad news for the proud virgins is that, on top of not getting laid, they <i>do<\/i> catch sexually-transmitted diseases, as shown by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/news\/archive\/2004\/03\/09\/national1606EST0710.DTL\">a recent study of the sex lives of 12,000 US adolescents<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p \/>How can you catch an STD while &#8212; allegedly &#8212; not having sex?<br \/>\n<br \/>Well, that&#8217;s the miracle of statistics (and hypocritical bigotry):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe data was gathered from young people aged 12 to 18 who were questioned again six years later.<br \/>\n<br \/>According to the study, the STD rates were:<\/p>\n<p \/>Whites who pledged virginity 2.8% &#8211; did not 3.5%<br \/>\n<br \/>Blacks: pledgers 18.1% &#8211; non-pledgers 20.3%<br \/>\n<br \/>Asians: pledgers 10.5% &#8211; non-pledgers 5.6%<br \/>\n<br \/>Hispanics: pledgers 6.7% &#8211; non-pledgers 8.6%<\/p>\n<p \/>The study&#8217;s authors say that from a statistical point of view, the rates are the same for both groups.<\/p>\n<div align=\"right\"><small><i>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/3546007.stm\">BBC News, World Edition<\/a><\/i><\/small><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The explanation for these numbers does not take a genius or a statistician to figure out: <\/p>\n<p \/>A good number of those teenager who had hastily claimed they&#8217;d never consider doing such icky sticky things, must have quickly changed their mind, once the acne wore out and they found out they actually <i>could<\/i> get a date&#8230; And when it got there, I guess it was too late to consider trading Sunday School for Sex-Ed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Hence proving once more what most experts have been saying all along: shunning sex-ed in favor of abstinence campaigns is not only gonna produce more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/wcitymike\/92733.html\">morbidly stuck-up conservative morons<\/a>, it will also help spreading AIDS and other STDs.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even virgins can catch STDs&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-our-fucked-up-world","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}