<p>STD</a> Data Come as No Surprise, Area Teenagers Say - washingtonpost.com</p>
<p>Wow, that's a lot.</p>
<p>That girl is so naive. "Good Girls Gone Bad" by Rihanna is making people have sex.</p>
<p>Such a prude.</p>
<p>Yeah, lol, I really doubt hip-hop is making people have sex.</p>
<p>And peer pressure. Totallly.</p>
<p>Everything our generation does is blamed on peer pressure/music/videogames.</p>
<p>Times are changing and it's beginning to be more and more acceptable to have sex younger and before marriage, and sex is valued less. More people see it as meaningless, 'hooking up' or whatever. And that's not caused completely by music- music changed with culture, music didn't change culture. </p>
<p>And, on the issue at hand: </p>
<p>And we should definitely have better sex-ed sooner. And I wish our school did more than the whole "Don't have sex. Ever." in tenth grade. They're already too late for a lot of kids and they're not even giving good information... I know people that think you can only get STDs from traditional sex... completely wrong. Or that pulling out will prevent you from getting pregnant. Pretty baaad.</p>
<p>1 out of every 4 teenage girls has an STD. </p>
<p>this makes me want to get tested JUST IN CASE.</p>
<p>flippin STDs..they take a lot out of human pleasure</p>
<p>Also, most of the people with STDs in that data have HPV... which is generally not life threatening (unless you get cervical cancer). I also heard some strains of it have no symptoms and aren't harmful and some are good for you (?)</p>
<p>i could only access the last page...</p>
<p>does the story mention the fact that more people than ever are getting tested for STDs? does it also mention that there are better methods for detecting STDs as well?</p>
<p>Agree with brillar (very well-written post, btw) that media cannot be blamed for everything and is simply a reflection of our society. My school, too, only has sex-ed in 10th grade, which is far too late considering it's a combined middle and high school and we spend the 3 years before that talking about eating disorders and drug abuse. While I understand that those are also problems, they are not nearly as prevalent in my school or in society in general as sexual activity, and by the time we're 16 something a 55-year-old woman says about "the right person" isn't going to change our opinions about what's right for us. It's too little, too late (pun intended).</p>