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Promiscuity Culture Causes Higher Sexual Diseases In Youths

dailymail.co.uk — A culture of promiscuity among the young has sent rates of sexually-transmitted infections soaring to record levels, doctors have warned. Almost 400,000 Britons were diagnosed with diseases from chlamydia to gonorrhoea last year - the highest number for at least three decades. Half of the infections were in under-25s, despite this age group ...

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  • coyote1284, on 07/15/2008, -4/+6Ric Romero works for dailymail now?
    • jemka, on 07/16/2008, -1/+4In other new, more sex for guys leads to high fives and street cred; more sex for girls means they are just dirty dirty whores.
  • Hetman, on 07/15/2008, -2/+78More sex = More STD's. Obvious article says Obviousness.
    • Baku, on 07/16/2008, -1/+8I was going to say... this is news? Personally I'd class it as common knowledge.
    • xeic, on 07/16/2008, -10/+2It's not true. If condom is correctly used, then: more sex != more STD

      The question is, why the young people don't use condoms? Are the condoms too much expensive?
      http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/wp-content/up ...

      Well, the graphic says: yes. 13$ for a box of 10 is a robbery.
      • mahler, on 07/16/2008, -8/+1Another obvious thing would be, that promiscuity culture causes lower crime-rate...
      • Charlotte_Web, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2Education will influence more condom use, sure, but it's a guarantee that condom use will NEVER be 100%; there will ALWAYS be a certain percentage of sexual encounters where condoms are not used. I'd even be willing to bet that in MOST of the STD cases, the participants knew the risks of sex without a condom and did it, anyway (hormones tend to override rational thought).
    • DavidtheDuke, on 07/16/2008, -3/+4ABSTINENCE IS THE ANSWER
    • cheesehead, on 07/16/2008, -4/+3Disagree. The British were one of the first races to the adopt anti nutrient white sugar. Now they have the worst teeth.
      Studies with aids have found (not taking into account the proximaty of cancer and other research facilities, alleged to be a source) that people in countries with more selenium, boron and other nutrients in their soils have far less rates of aids, despite as much or greater degrees of promiscuity. Similaryl in Amercia the soils have been depleted for some time. Healthy bodies are much more resistant to all infections.
    • lanium, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2Not necessarily,
      this article from Maclean's suggests that in Canada we are having a ton of sex but sti rates continue to fall.

      http://www.macleans.ca/culture/lifestyle/article.j ...
    • TrevorBradley, on 07/16/2008, -0/+1Actually I thought STD rates were rising fastest where abstinence education was pushed.

      Not necessarily contradictory, I guess.
  • salamnder, on 07/15/2008, -2/+23Wow and eating un-cooked meat increases the chance of food borne illness?! Holy Crap!
    • pe5t1lence, on 07/16/2008, -1/+4Tell that to the girls that sued over the pot pies last year!
  • waydee, on 07/16/2008, -17/+9Daily Mail conservative moral high horse scaremongering.

    Buried.
    • poidh, on 07/16/2008, -5/+16Right. So because you think that this is "conservative moral high horse scaremongering" then that means that the article is not true? So almost 400,000 Britons weren't diagnosed with an STD just because you don't like the Daily Mail? That's quite a power you have there - the power to alter reality just because you don't like how it is reported.

      In which case, I'm going to ask the Daily Mail to report that I haven't got a billion pounds in the bank. Then you can use your super powers of disbelief to make a billion pounds appear magically in my account. I wish I'd met you sooner, idiot.
      • Imachick, on 07/16/2008, -10/+1I have no idea why you're banging on about how much money you have or don't have. Waydee's point is that it is entirely predictable that the Mail would take an angle such as this on this sort of story.
        Most readers of Digg are American, and they may not realise that the Mail is tremendously conservative and moralising on issues like sex.
        It's a valid point, concisely made, and you frothing and being a rude idiot isn't going to alter that reality.
      • poidh, on 07/16/2008, -2/+10@Imachick

        Waydee's point is that because he thinks that reporting that 400,000 Britons were diagnosed with an STD is "conservative moral high horse scaremongering", he buried it. That's what he said. I suppose that if the state of Britain's exual health were reported by a paper of which he approves then it would be ok.

        You, madam, are an idiot.
      • waydee, on 07/16/2008, -3/+3Imachick - thanks for explaining, shame it falls on deaf ears.

        The Daily Mail is renowned for its right-wing reactionary stance on social issues in the UK. They pick these issues seemingly randomly and wage thinly veiled campaigns against them through their articles.

        Next week they'll be back to trying to convince us immigration is the worst thing to ever happen to our great country and to "send them all back home". The following week we'll be hearing about how the kids are running riot and the very fabric of British society is falling apart because of rap music and hoodies.

        Poidh, you have no idea of how this newspaper operates. I do not dispute the figures published, while the Daily Heil is well known to make up facts as it deems necessary it seems on this one they have not - what I object to is how they're using these figures and the tone of their writing, taking thinly veiled jabs at what the Americans would consider 'liberal' social programmes and policies. A good example:

        "But Norman Wells, of campaign group Family and Youth Concern, said the Teenage Pregnancy Strategy has encouraged young people to think they can engage in casual sexual relationships without consequences and has led to more sexual experimentation and more disease."

        "'The answer does not lie in yet more sex education and contraceptive schemes, but in honestly telling young people the only sure way to avoid being infected with an STI is to keep sexual intimacy within the context of a lifelong, mutually faithful relationship with an uninfected partner.'"

        The Daily Mail is the voice of the outraged middle England Conservative, this article is designed to agree with their minority opinion that offering contraception, abortions on the NHS etc. is a damaging policy. I and most decent British people take exception to this but we all know fine well this is what the Daily Mail do and for the most part ignore their ramblings.

        Note if you will the single sentence buried near the top of the article: "Better tests and shorter waiting times at clinics also explain the rise, the agency said. ". Of course this is overlooked and not discussed in any further detail.

        I hate seeing their articles on Digg not only because of their far right political stance which is in direct conflict to my own (and I freely admit my bias) but because nobody in their right mind in the land where this newspaper is distributed takes them seriously yet on this website the frequency of their articles appearing on the front page may mislead people into thinking they are a credible source or in any way indicative of British public opinion.

        I feel my bias is justified, perhaps the best reason to dislike the daily mail is their famous support for the fascists in the early 30s, those days may be over but their obvious right wing bias and history makes me and I expect a lot of people weary of their motives.

        I'm not alone, i've yet to see a single dailymail.co.uk article posted on digg without most British people (the ones in a position to make such comments) making their opinion of this paper known.

        Sorry for the length but I felt you needed an explanation.

      • flashback99, on 07/16/2008, -4/+2No, it's because it's the daily ***** mail, that it's likely not true. Dumbass.
      • poidh, on 07/16/2008, -1/+1Oh noes, it's a "right wing" paper. Run for the hills, not before stopping to read some hand-wringing drivel from the Guardian I suppose.
    • shauncorleone, on 07/16/2008, -2/+3Hahaha, Daily Mail and Conservative in the same sentence? That's awesome.
      • waydee, on 07/16/2008, -2/+1They're notoriously pro-tory and right leaning...

      • govsucks, on 07/16/2008, -2/+3And because it comes from such horrible conservative paper, of course Waydee, that means you must put your leftist hands over your ears and go "LA LA LA LA" correct? Such a high brow you have.
  • diggan8, on 07/16/2008, -2/+43"Promiscuity Culture Causes Higher Sexual Diseases In Youths"

    no *****
    • ThreeHives, on 07/16/2008, -1/+4exactly....
    • EntropyFan, on 07/17/2008, -0/+1Sadly, it isn't a must that one follows another. Since the enactment of mandatory condoms in (legalized) US prostitution, there hasn't been a single recorded case of AIDS and little problem with sexually transmitted diseases.

      If you could actually get youths to be safe about it, you would see these numbers crash. Unfortunately, actually educating our young about sex seems to be out of the question...
  • fatas, on 07/16/2008, -10/+16British tarts, nothing new.

    It's a shame English Tabloid papers have found a home on Digg.
    Not sure if this is linked to level of intelligence found in America.

    • waydee, on 07/16/2008, -2/+5I've wondered this too, who the hell is digging this stuff? It's certainly not the British readership of the newspaper since they're all middle Englanders with no idea of social media or anything like that.
    • SteelChicken, on 07/16/2008, -0/+8so blame Americans for stupid British articles from stupid British papers about stupid British people showing up on a website thats visited from people all over the world?

      seriously?
      • bacchante, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2It's good to know the Brits enjoy the same culture of blame that we do.
    • mike17032, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3No, just the low IQ and age of the diggiots found on digg.
    • Suricou, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2To call the mail a tabloid is simplifying it. The Mail is a pretentious tabloid. Unlike the honest tabloids, such as the Star or the Sun, the Mail tries to appear respectable on the outside with it's elaborate logo. Read a few pages though, and it's tabloid nature shows clearly: Nothing but funny irrelivencies, celebrity gossip, and the occasional piece of news distorted for sensationalism.
  • nastronomical, on 07/16/2008, -7/+25This is basic logic, however, lets not talk about this because the ignorant hordes of hippies and do whatever i want freaks will be offended.
    • Mier, on 07/16/2008, -0/+7Please not here. The digg police will be coming around to collect you in a moment for such blatant disregard for the kinks of others.
  • damian7, on 07/16/2008, -3/+27No problem for Diggers

  • poidh, on 07/16/2008, -11/+2Don't ***** a Brit*.

    *Except me, because I'm clean.
  • dafunkmonster, on 07/16/2008, -6/+15In other news, virgins are less sexually active than non-virgins, and stating the obvious is now considered trendy, says Reuters.
  • jimv1983, on 07/16/2008, -5/+26This just in. Sex leads to pregnancy.
  • crazyjake, on 07/16/2008, -5/+21Breaking News: Scientists discover link between overeating and obesity!
  • Armughan, on 07/16/2008, -3/+4DUH!
  • p51d007, on 07/16/2008, -5/+19FLASH! Scientist discover that if you spill water on yourself, you will get wet!
    Digg needs an OBVIOUS tag like fark.com has.
  • sonnybobiche, on 07/16/2008, -0/+5FTA: "The Health Protection Agency, which collected the figures, said promiscuity was partly to blame for the record number of cases, with casual sex increasingly becoming 'part of the territory' for young people.
    Better tests and shorter waiting times at clinics also explain the rise, the agency said.
    Others claimed the rising rates were fuelled by the Government's Teenage Pregnancy Strategy, which involves making contraception and sex education more widely available.
    Since its introduction in 1999 the number of girls having abortions has soared, with some on their fourth before they reach 18. Under plans revealed earlier this month, sex education could be given to children as young as four."

    A smart man learns from his own mistakes. A brilliant man learns from the mistakes of others.
  • shauncorleone, on 07/16/2008, -7/+6More sex does not automatically equal more STD's. More sex with multiple partners increases the risk, obviously. Considering how many adults are not emotionally mature enough to maintain monogamous relationships, myself included, it can only be worse among kids. Also considering how irresponsible we so-called "adults" can be with using protection, and how many kids are constantly trying to hide evidence of sexual activity from parents, and they're even less likely to wrap it up. But these claims of "more sex = stds" is ri-goddamn-diculous.
    • alankel, on 07/16/2008, -1/+6It's not saying more sex equals more in STDs, it says promiscuity (characterized by or involving indiscriminate mingling or association, esp. having sexual relations with a number of partners on a casual basis. thank you dictionary.com) causes a higher rate of STDs, which is just common sense.
    • pilgrim3970, on 07/16/2008, -1/+1"not emotionally mature enough to maintain monogamous relationships"

      More like consumed with self and lacking control.

      "But these claims of "more sex = stds" is ri-goddamn-diculous"

      And yet STD's run rampant with increased sexual activity.
  • captaindigger, on 07/16/2008, -2/+3Oh oh.. looks like the girlfriend in the picture above gave her boyfriend chlamydia and gonorrhoea. He is now very pissed.
  • Galaxylander, on 07/16/2008, -3/+1In other news, shooting yourself in the head kills you!
  • therealkdog, on 07/16/2008, -3/+3What is this Obvious day at camp stupid?


  • mediaspree, on 07/16/2008, -4/+6Got an STD? No worries!

    http://www.STDmatch.net
  • tayf, on 07/16/2008, -4/+2The forecast is good, gents!
  • LeeSoong, on 07/16/2008, -5/+4BREAKING NEWS: Water is wet.

  • Frenicks, on 07/16/2008, -6/+8The Mail's angle is complete bs. The statistics actually only show an increase in DIAGNOSIS and TREATMENT, which can only be a good thing. It's plain stupid to assume an increase in diagnosis means an increase in promiscuity.

    If anything this shows that the recent sexual health advertising campaigns are leading more people to get checked out.
  • applessauce, on 07/16/2008, -5/+4"Better tests and shorter waiting times at clinics also explain the rise, the agency said."

    Translation: the rise in the number diagnosed cases of STDs may just be because of a fall in the number of undiagnosed cases of STDs, rather than a rise in the number of people with STDs.
  • LokitheComplex, on 07/16/2008, -5/+2Isn't sex for the young?
  • CosmicJustice, on 07/16/2008, -3/+9So for the last 5000 years, when every religion on the planet has been telling people not to ***** around, they weren't just doing it to be a buzz kill?
  • pilgrim3970, on 07/16/2008, -7/+8For you that scoff at abstinence - the reason it doesn't work is because we live in culture that doesn't WANT it to work.

    Advertising frequently uses sex to sell products, movies and music encourage it, sex ed courses irresponsibly teach that one can be promiscuous and still dodge the STD bullet as long as you practice "safe" sex (never mind the fact that condoms only *lessen* the likelyhood of getting an STD - would you slip one on and go have sex with someone you new had HIV? Didn't think so). So when you have all these factors, is it any wonder that young people feel pressured to engage in this sort of behaviour?

    I know that I'll likely get dugg down for this but as they say, "what's popular isn't always right and what's right isn't always popular."

    • popfrogs, on 07/16/2008, -1/+3Abstinence doesn't work because we're human. Hormones often override rational thought, it's a simple fact. Rather than promoting abstinence, which is proven not to work for milennia, we should encourage condom usage. If it weren't for the old school catholics we could get nearly everybody onboard. Imagine a world without STDs.
      • gm33, on 07/16/2008, -2/+3"Hormones often override rational thought"

        Way to oversimplify it. You make it sound like we have zero control over our hormonal influence. If that was the case you can make excuses for people who commit crimes too. "Don't arrest me for murder, I was just mad!"
      • floorman56, on 07/16/2008, -1/+2"we should encourage condom usage"

        But if you don't have one at the time?

        "Hormones often override rational thought"

        "If it weren't for the old school catholics we could get nearly everybody onboard"

        There is not a single gay in San Francisco who doesn't know how you get AIDS and how to prevent it. So why are people still getting AIDS in SF?....old school catholics have nothing to do with it
    • wattersm, on 07/16/2008, -2/+1Actually I'm digging you down because you're way off base. Humans, as a species, like to *****. You have millions of years of evolution as a driving force.
  • dungar, on 07/16/2008, -4/+7how many of these people got HIV? why is it not mentioned in the article? when will these people admit that the so-called "sexual revolution" is actually destroying mankind?
    • the6thReplicant, on 07/16/2008, -4/+2When you admit that every christian-right idea has been wrong. The sexual revolution was simple: the invention of the pill; the fact that the society that the puritans made didn't know how to handle it should be where the blame is laid.

      A society that equates skin with sex (where a picture of a baby breastfeeding is deemed to be offensive) shows how unprepared you guys are.

      But we can all agree that we hate hippies.
      • floorman56, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3When you admit that every christian-right idea has been wrong

        So its a good thing your sister is a whore?
    • Suricou, on 07/16/2008, -0/+1HIV infection rate is going *down*. The mail didn't mention it because a falling statistic can't play into their scaremongering.
  • Duositex, on 07/16/2008, -4/+1Among youths IN BRITAIN. Totally different ball game across the ocean. Kids there are not the same as kids here in a lot of ways.
  • flashback99, on 07/16/2008, -3/+4Since when did promiscuity become a culture? I thought people just like sex? after all, that's what we do.
  • govsucks, on 07/16/2008, -2/+5When in England, double bag it.
  • Vessol, on 07/16/2008, -0/+7So I guess there is an actual benefit to not ***** tons of people...:
  • Botanicus, on 07/16/2008, -6/+1abstinence = 100% probability of no STDs*

    *STDs can be transmitted in acts other than sexual, such as rape, blood transfusions or inheritance.
  • arjie, on 07/16/2008, -3/+1Higher sexual diseases, these occur when you screw someone while smoking pot.
  • TheBSG, on 07/16/2008, -4/+3I think naivety and taboo are what caused all the STDs, not promiscuity alone. If we want to talk about problems in sexual culture, why don't we talk about the anti-sex culture that makes the act so damn appealing to kids who have no idea what they're doing?
    • TopKnot, on 07/16/2008, -2/+0Mom and Dad tell me not to drink and drive. I say, but it sounds like soooo much fun! Mom and Dad made me drink and drive because they are anti-drinking and driving. Yep common sense! Tell people they must drink and drive and the problem goes away.
    • PicklesNCheese, on 07/24/2008, -1/+2I agree. This reminds me of how furious I get when I hear women say that they don't want to give their daughters the HPV vaccine because it'll somehow encourage them to have sex. This attitude of shame and ignorance regarding sex is ridiculous and detrimental.
  • Mr.Gone, on 07/16/2008, -3/+2Next in news: Stupid members of herd weed themselves out, film at 11
  • zacharytelschow, on 07/16/2008, -1/+3Scant mention of the true topic that I wanted more information on: What is Britain's sexual education policy and what was their policy in the past? They're claiming they could start sex ed classes for children as young as four. That's just wrong.
  • drunknmunky1, on 07/16/2008, -0/+1Who the ***** gets paid to do these studies? I really hope they're not getting paid much because they're not finding anything too groundbreaking.
  • positron, on 07/16/2008, -0/+1This digg brought to you by the Council for Promulgation of The Obvious
  • davidjunit, on 07/16/2008, -1/+1Mannn, I wish I was diagnosed with an STI; I've only got a WRX. :*(
  • MrFurious2k, on 07/16/2008, -0/+1Holy crap - what is with these researchers? This is the second story in a very short period to have something so obvious. This is like saying, "People spend more time in the rain are more likely to get wet."

    I need to get a government research grant on studying the effects of mowing my lawn. Study hypothesis: Cutting my lawn repeatedly makes the lawn shorter than if left to its own devices.
  • MWeather, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3The solution is simple. Stop handing out condoms and start handing out video games and linux distributions.
  • mchisari, on 07/16/2008, -2/+1
    Correlation does not equal causation. The moralizing conclusion is a stand-in for good research, and it's very possible that attitudes towards testing has changed. Could people be more open to getting tested? Whereas previously people could be infected without knowing, now they get STD tested, increasing the numbers, despite no change in levels of promiscuity?
  • Veretax, on 07/16/2008, -0/+4Wait, didn't we have an article a few weeks ago saying the same thing has happened here in America? And that it was Bush's Fault. I suppose this is bush's fault too...
    • floorman56, on 07/16/2008, -0/+1I suppose this is bush's fault too...

      This is Digg ...you bet
  • fani, on 07/16/2008, -1/+1Kids should stop ***** and work towards building a better future through education.
  • trollick, on 07/16/2008, -0/+1That's sooo counter-intuitive. I mean one would think that it's people who do not have sex catch all those STDs. Go figure.
  • wizzroom, on 07/16/2008, -1/+2God's punishment for ***** around too much.
  • sgvprelude, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2So...the more sex I have, the greater the chance I have of catching a sexually transmitted disease? Go figure.
  • mgard7331, on 07/16/2008, -1/+1In other news, the Pope is Catholic.
  • J4k3, on 07/17/2008, -0/+1LMAO! That's what you get for being a slut!
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