Why We Should Be Allowed To Have Condoms In High Schools
Arika Wilson
Core101-58
Ms. LaFon
December 9, 2013
Safe Sex Or Else
According to Dr. Ray Bohlin, the increasing amount of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in the United States is a recent epidemic. Some critics believe that allowing condoms in high school will increase sexual activity. Supporters think providing contraceptives in high school would curtail the prevalence of STDs and pregnancies among teens within the United States. High schools should be allowed to give their students condoms in order to reduce the rate of teens receiving STDs and/or getting pregnant.
During the 1960s, gonorrhea and syphilis were the first two sexually transmitted diseases discovered (Bohlin, 1993). In today’s society, there are at least twenty-five sexually transmitted diseases, some being fatal. Nearly nineteen million STDs affect people among the ages of fifteen and twenty-four each year. According to the Center of Disease Control and Prevention, 40,000 to 80,000 cases of HIV in the United States occur each year. People that are twenty-five and younger …show more content…
A study at a three school-based clinic claims to provide free contraceptives to students. Fifteen to eighteen percent of male students that are sexually active are using the availability of these condoms in their high school. With those fifteen to eighteen percent of male students, many of them only use the condoms from these clinics only once. “One study of three such school-based clinics revealed that the presence of the clinic was not associated with greater sexual activity, and that condom availability was not significantly associated with greater condom use by students in the respective schools.” With this program at this day in time they only gave the male students the condoms, and they would take the females to a family planning clinic. (Condom Availability Programs in U.S. Schools,
Core101-58
Ms. LaFon
December 9, 2013
Safe Sex Or Else
According to Dr. Ray Bohlin, the increasing amount of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in the United States is a recent epidemic. Some critics believe that allowing condoms in high school will increase sexual activity. Supporters think providing contraceptives in high school would curtail the prevalence of STDs and pregnancies among teens within the United States. High schools should be allowed to give their students condoms in order to reduce the rate of teens receiving STDs and/or getting pregnant.
During the 1960s, gonorrhea and syphilis were the first two sexually transmitted diseases discovered (Bohlin, 1993). In today’s society, there are at least twenty-five sexually transmitted diseases, some being fatal. Nearly nineteen million STDs affect people among the ages of fifteen and twenty-four each year. According to the Center of Disease Control and Prevention, 40,000 to 80,000 cases of HIV in the United States occur each year. People that are twenty-five and younger …show more content…
A study at a three school-based clinic claims to provide free contraceptives to students. Fifteen to eighteen percent of male students that are sexually active are using the availability of these condoms in their high school. With those fifteen to eighteen percent of male students, many of them only use the condoms from these clinics only once. “One study of three such school-based clinics revealed that the presence of the clinic was not associated with greater sexual activity, and that condom availability was not significantly associated with greater condom use by students in the respective schools.” With this program at this day in time they only gave the male students the condoms, and they would take the females to a family planning clinic. (Condom Availability Programs in U.S. Schools,