Staggering statistics: The story behind STDs

It's a taboo topic but one that affects nearly 19 million people each year - sexually transmitted diseases. Almost half of those infected are between the ages of 15-24 years, and some of the most common STD cases are on the rise. Paola Figuira tells her story about having HPV, the most prevalent sexually transmitted infection in the U.S. It's a disease that can cause genital warts and cervical cancer.

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News & Politics

Tags:

• sex
• transmitted disease
• HPV
• infection
• cervical caner
• genital warts
• virus
• chlamydia
• herpes
• gonorrhea
• UPI

[BrutalSleep85]

this is fuckin depressing.

[Palolita44]

FYI , the girls in the video was only 19 when she found out she had HPV , and she had only had 2 sexual parter . Shit happens you know !

[zndprophet]

Well, it probably wouldn't. I'm just saying, if you have bumps all over your genitals-it might be a sign that you need to wear a fucking condom, even though no one wants to.

Also, regular people need to stop fucking swingers. That would help a lot. Swingers dont give a fuck about diseases, even though they act like they do.

[ThinkingLeft]

abstain? when has that ever worked??

just show this video and offer free condoms.

[zndprophet]

The problem with STD's is people don't want to live like a leper in some herpes or aids colony. They don't want to disclose all their diseases, it's not very romantic, or erotic. Especially when the other person they are with may have even worse diseases, but is even more reluctant to disclose them, or even get tested.

Trying to control this is a nightmare. People dont know what they have a lot of the time. But if shit grows on your genitals, you probably should abstain from promiscuity.