The risk of STDs with teen sexual intimacy

explaining the risk of STDs to CKHS students

always use a condom kids.

Many teens in our school, town, and country are sexually active, but do they know the risks they take everytime they are sexually active? One of the big risks they take is the receiving of STIs. An STI is a sexually transmitted infection that could possibly stay with them for the rest of their life. There are some ways you can be safe if you choose to be sexually active though. Condoms are your safest bet to protect yourself from an STI. Condoms are the only form of birth control that protect you from STIs. Abstinence is the safest way to protect yourself from an STI due to the fact that you cannot catch an STI through sexual actions if you do not do them.

 

STIs are rampant all over the world and even in our community. Bacterial STIs are more common than ever says Mr. Cole “in Kitsap county STIs are on a rise with gonorrhea and chlamydia more than the 70s and 80s. The incidences of HIV went down rapidly. But there’s more medicine and treatment for HIV.” bacterial STIs can be cured but viral cannot. HIV is an example of a viral STI and gonorrhea is a bacterial. Bacterial STIs are on the rise and people 17-24 are in the most vulnerable age group to contracting these STIs.