STDs: Cause and Infect
by Tony Perkins, FRC:
Pop culture tells us to pursue satisfaction at any cost — even if that cost is about $16 billion in treatments! Unfortunately, that’s just the economic side-effect of the “if-it-feels-good-do-it” approach. The mess of sexual liberalism is hitting home in a nation that’s spent the last eight years — not just encouraging, but funding — messages of irresponsibility.
Now, we’re paying for it with unprecedented cases of disease, including syphilis. According to the CDC’s latest report, these infections are skyrocketing to levels “not seen since the start of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1980s.” Men who have sex with men, experts say, account for a whopping 83 percent of male cases. And while the rates are increasing for women too, “men account for more than 90 percent of all primary and secondary syphilis cases.” But the problem doesn’t end there. “Available data,” the CDC warns, “indicate than an average of half of men who have sex with men who have syphilis are also infected with HIV.” Sadly, the worst outbreak is among young men, 13-19 years old, who make up as many as 93% of all diagnosed HIV infections that were from male-to-male sexual contact.
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