Introduction
This study involved finding out how Abstinence from Sexual contacts in relation to STDs affect the population in the U.S among the youths(14-24). This has to do with the health effects that the STDs cause to the human body. From the available articles that show how this is problem is huge, it would only be of importance to look into the mater. The study goes ahead to:
- Analyze the data and finds out on the issue of STDs and how the abstinence has in relation with the health among the population.
- Show how abstinence causes the population to be in health and consequently and its effect to transmission of the STDs.
- The way out of the problem STDs through abstinence.
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Abstinence was mostly effective among the youths who were better educated about the STDs. Among the youths that were encountered with, most of them had at least knowledge on what the deadly effects of the STDs were. This led to the abstaining from the sexual acts and thus reduction of the contraction.
A bid number of advocators, peer educators and medical professionals had a hand in combating STDs through informing the youth and teaching them about sex. “There is already too much talk about sex and contraceptives, they say, and that’s why the 4 out of 10 Wisconsin teens who claim to be sexually active face soaring rates of infection. What these kids really need, they say, is to be taught how to abstain from sex completely. “It’s a titanic cultural clash,” says Julaine Appling, chief executive officer of Wisconsin Family Action and a leader of the local abstinence movement.(January 6, 2010).
The areas where sex education was absent had high rate of STDs and huge number of people were ignorant of abstince. It mostly affects those who do not have good decision making in regard to sexual intercourse and thus they ends up being lured into sex. About 2 among 10 youths were ignorant of what the effects of STDs were as they did not know anything about it.
Abstinence was practiced mainly by the youths who were financially able as compared to those who had a poor background. This could be attributed to the satisfactory life they had as compared to those who live in poor families. Consequently, the Youths who were from financially able families had fewer cases of STDs as compared to those from the poor background( who form 65% of the infected).
Among the youths who had the STIs, the most common one was the human papillomavirus(HPV) which contributed to 45% while 25% had Chlamydia. These resulted from their rapid and ease of transmission through sexual contacts among the youths. However, if they had practiced abstinence, this case would not have occurred. Most of them were female who had the genital warts, cervica and other strains of the viruses.
An STI called ectopoparasitic infection was rampant among the youths from poor background. This was due to contact with infected sexual partners thus exposure to it. About 0.9% of the youths had the infections. Abstinence had been noticed among the males who had not acquired the infection.
It was interesting to note that among those who had been infected, most of them had learnt to abstain from sex henceforth. This had been associated with the education learnt from them being infected. The restrain from having sex resulted into reduced number of further infections.
Conclusion
It’s necessary for those infected to access abstinence education regardless of the financial status. It was found out that among those infected with the parasitic infections, 90% came from the poor background. With there being a challenge of collection of the data as very few people am among the US were willing to give information on the STIs, it can be said that the STDs are greatly reduced by abstinence.
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