Teen Promiscuity Contributes To STD Rise
Dr. Elizabeth Alderman works for Children’s Hospital at the Montefiore Medical Facility, in New York, and she was very surprised at the results revealed in the federal study. “I knew the numbers were high, but didn’t realize they were that high,” said Dr. Alderman. Dr. Alderman specializes in teenage and adolescent medicine, especially dealing with a population of young females between 11-20 years of age.
The study which was released early this week reveals that in young women who are teens that have had sex, that among this group at least 2 out of 5 have had some sort of STD.
A junior student at W.T. Woodson High School, Lorena Granados, remarked that this high number was not a surprise to her in the least. “Many girls do not care about protection, they think they are in love,” said Ms. Granados. “Or they think that their boyfriend cant have ever even looked at another girl, much less slept with anyone else,” said Granados.
This same type of attitude is very common among teenagers today. “Every single one of my patients will claim they practice safe sex, or that they are using a condom, or that they are not even having sex.
Even after their STD test comes back positive, some of my patients claim tearfully there must be a mistake, that they have never even had sex,” said Dr. Alderman.