AIDS diagnoses for boys aged 15 to 19 years has nearly doubled

Submitted by anthony on Sat, 2009-07-18 15:57

Article here. Excerpt:

'WASHINGTON, July 16 (Reuters) - U.S. teens are getting sex education, but most are not learning about birth control from their parents, new government data showed on Thursday.

And rates of infection with sexually transmitted diseases reflect this -- the annual rate of AIDS diagnoses for boys aged 15 to 19 years has nearly doubled in the past 10 years, and rates of syphilis are also up.

The numbers show that U.S. youth need better sex education, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

The new administration of President Barack Obama has been dropping some of the more controversial policies of the former Bush government, including an emphasis on abstinence-only education.'

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Bad stuff all around in this report for teens both sexes.

I wonder about that one line that reads 'Nearly 10 percent of young women aged 18 to 24 said their first intercourse was involuntary." I want to know if they asked boys this question, and what their defintion of "involuntary" is? If it's equivalent to actual forcible rape, then why didn't they just say that? Maybe because this is another example of use of "defined terms" or "terms of art" as they are known. That is when you use a phrase or word that is known to have a common defintion but you have re-defined it to mean something else, even just in your own mind or in the case of the legal system, by statute.

Devil's in the details.

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Submitted by Matt on Sat, 2009-07-18 17:52