A study shows a frighteninlgy high risk of STDs in today's world

[Super_geek]

A study was recently conducted where high school girls from highschools all across the country were randomly tested for STDs. They found that 9% of high school girls had an STD and most didnt even know about it. It will probably be near the same for college chicks (if not worse).

a 9% STD probability makes it VERY EASY to get an STD if you sleep with just a handful of women. So this is concearning!

Here are the probabilities that youll have an STD given the number of women you have slept with:

1. If youve slept with only one girl, then theres a 9% chance you have an STD.

2. if youve slept with 2 girls, then theres a 17.2% chance you have an STD

3. If youve slept with 5 girls, then theres a 37.6% chance you have an STD

4. If youve slept with 7 girls, then theres a 48.4% chance you have an STD

5. If youve slept with 10 girls, then theres a 61.1% chance you have an STD

6. If youve slept with 15 girls, then theres a 75.7% chance you have an STD!!

7. If youve slept with 20 girls, then theres a 84.9% chance you have an STD

8. If youve slept with 30 girls, then theres a 94.1% chance you have an STD

9. If youve slept wit 40 girls, then theres a 97.8% chance you have an STD

10. If youve slept with 50 girls, then theres a 99.2% chance you have an STD!!!!!!!!!

So if youve slept with near 10 girls or more, youre at high risk, and I recomend you get tested.

Keep in mind, these probabilities are assuming theres a 9% chance that a girl will have an STD (what the study concluded), AND that you never wear protection AND that if you dont wear protection, and if the girl infact does have an STD, then theres a 100% chance youll get an STD (which is actually unrealistic, your not guaranteed to contract it, but theres a high chance you will). So these probabilities are based on some assumptions, but will be nearly true for people who never wear protection.

 

[Bible_Belt]

HPV accounts for most of your 'std' stats. The good news is that most men can catch HPV without actually growing warts. There are many different strains. The bad news is that there is no cure if you happen to catch a strain that makes you grow warts, other than the doctor freezing off your current warts. The even worse news is that condoms only offer about 50% protection against HPV and herpes, which is probably the #2 most frequent std, and also unfortunately uncureable.

 

[donjuanjovi]

This is why the monkey wears a rain coat to school! Wrap it up boys!

 

[Shiftkey]

HPV accounts for most of your 'std' stats. The good news is that most men can catch HPV without actually growing warts. There are many different strains. The bad news is that there is no cure if you happen to catch a strain that makes you grow warts, other than the doctor freezing off your current warts. The even worse news is that condoms only offer about 50% protection against HPV and herpes, which is probably the #2 most frequent std, and also unfortunately uncureable.

Before people start getting paranoid...a good immune system can kill off HPV warts and suppresses the virus to the point of being negligable (since technically no virus can die). They also just recently developed a vaccine for HPV.

http://pediatrics.about.com/od/immunizations/p/06_gardasil.htm
http://pediatrics.about.com/gi/dyna...ttp://www.niaid.nih.gov/factsheets/stdhpv.htm

To the OP...that's a perfect example of manipulated statistics. Do you have the originial link?

 

[Super_geek]

No, I dont have the link. I actually heard this on the news. But Im sure it can be googled. I mean, as long as the study wasnt a lie, theres really no reason to doubt my post. But if the 9% statistic is true, then my probabilities will be true given assumptions of wearing no protection and assumed transmission probability of 1. No manipulated statistics here!!!!

 

[Shiftkey]

Ah huh. I heard on TV that 45% of studies are found to be wrong.

 

[KillaCam]

Wear a rubber. It ain't that difficult.

 

[Joe The Homophobe]

I think the only way to stay safe from stds are by using condoms and by staying away from hos such as girls found in parties/frats etc.

If you're a guy that is only looking for a nice girl to be your girlfriend (1 girl at a time) and aren't interested in fooling around with lots of girls but rather have a serious relationship with a girlfriend, you'll be ok. But if you're the type that likes to fool around with girls in parties and aren't really interested in having just 1 girlfriend and being in a guy/girlfriend relationship, your chances of getting an std are high.

These stats are sick! how come condoms only protect to about 50% chance of stopping some stds?

 

[Porky]

I don't understand how this study can be true and realistic when it assumes so many variables.

Such as the 100% chance that you won't wear a condom, and the 100% chance that you'll contract an STD if you aren't wearing a condom. Because both of those numbers are off, the entire study is inaccurate.

anyway, the girls I sleep with aren't likely to give me an STD. the girls a random frat guy sleeps with might be.

 

[Bible_Belt]

how come condoms only protect to about 50% chance of stopping some stds?


Herpes and HPV are spread by skin-on-skin contact, not by bodily fluids. The part that your condom does not cover at its base rubs against her exposed skin.

The current powers-that-be won't tell people these things about condoms, because condoms are the best campaign that they have to prevent aids. They don't want to announce the limitations of condoms, because they are afraid that doing so would make fewer people wear them.

imo, I hate condoms. Sex is ten times better without them.

 

[SamePendo]

And what about oral?

 

[Ojete]

I think the only way to stay safe from stds are by using condoms and by staying away from hos such as girls found in parties/frats etc.

If you're a guy that is only looking for a nice girl to be your girlfriend (1 girl at a time) and aren't interested in fooling around with lots of girls but rather have a serious relationship with a girlfriend, you'll be ok. But if you're the type that likes to fool around with girls in parties and aren't really interested in having just 1 girlfriend and being in a guy/girlfriend relationship, your chances of getting an std are high.

My exact words on the matter.

 

[JohnJones]

What I can't stand about HPV is that its being characterized to women as a cancer issue, not a skank issue. As it is addressed in womens' mags and TV commercials, it doesn't have anything to do with being the result of giving it up too easy to too many guys -- rather it's a "womens' health" issue.

Stats I heard (abt 8 years back) were that a woman with 4 or more partners has had a 100% chance that they have been exposed to it, statistically speaking. This was from a girl trying to explain why 20 guys by age 20 isn't that bad...

 

[Super_geek]

What I want to know from shiftkey is how you concluded that the study was of manipulated statistics? Was it becuase I didnt include any links? is this your sole basis? If so, then its pretty stupid; for all you know I could have gotten it from some credible online source, and just forgot to post the link. So how are you jumping to conclusions about the study's credibility so soon (before I told you where I got it)?

The fact of the matter is I saw it on the news, not from a website. But why would a study I saw on the news be any less credible than one that could be found on a website? A phony study could just as easily be posted as a website page as it could a news segment! So what gives? how did you come to this conclusion?

And the stats arent that off, All the study is telling are the probabilities of contracting the STD if you dont wear protection ever, and it assumes for simplicity a 100% contraction rate if you do sleep with an infected person, which is the only generalization made. Id say that the true contraction rate would be 50%-90% (just a guess). If you do always wear protection, then obviously, the predictions wont apply to you. I posted it to primarily warn those who never wear protection and who have slept with 10 or more women in the lifetime so far. For these individuals, its predictions will be pretty accurate. ANd there are plenty of men out there that never wear protection! I urge these people to take a look at how high a risk they are (by looking at the stats), and please get tested, its for their own good as well as any future sex partners they have.

 

[ER!C L!VE]

I've had my share of girls and STD's. I've had crabs once and chlamydia twice. No biggie. I got myself some RID for the crabs and pills for chlamydia. All better. Both were diagnosed within weeks of being contracted. However, I'm still not sure how I got crabs... I think it was during Spring Break in Mexico. :cheer:

 

[Bible_Belt]

I had some mexican crabs once, too, the little bastards. I itched like crazy. In the shower I picked off what looked like a tiny black scab, and then the scab started crawling across the tile.

 

[Shiftkey]

What I want to know from shiftkey is how you concluded that the study was of manipulated statistics? Was it becuase I didnt include any links? is this your sole basis? If so, then its pretty stupid; for all you know I could have gotten it from some credible online source, and just forgot to post the link. So how are you jumping to conclusions about the study's credibility so soon (before I told you where I got it)?

That's part of the problem. It would be stupid to assume something an anonimous poster wrote about online to be gospel. Especially on a forum with trolls that like to make new aliases like they change their clothes, and coming from a poster who registered last month. But if this is a real study I still have problems with the fact that you didn't give a link. I don't know the details of the study; Where was the sample taken? How recently was it done? Who conducted it? How big is the sample? Then there's other glaring problems with the study information you gave us; What STDs is it talking about? Different STDs have greatly differing rates of contraction, so it's useless data if it lumps every STD together. How did you get your numbers for more than one girl? Then you make some really bad generalizations and conditions; These numbers are the same in college? How do you know? There's 100% chance you get an STD if this and this and this? But there isn't really? But it's close enough??

This thread is lame. You should've just said "STDs are bad, wear a condom" because that's all your "study" amounts to.

 

[Super_geek]

That's part of the problem. It would be stupid to assume something an anonimous poster wrote about online to be gospel. Especially on a forum with trolls that like to make new aliases like they change their clothes, and coming from a poster who registered last month. But if this is a real study I still have problems with the fact that you didn't give a link. I don't know the details of the study; Where was the sample taken? How recently was it done? Who conducted it? How big is the sample? Then there's other glaring problems with the study information you gave us; What STDs is it talking about? Different STDs have greatly differing rates of contraction, so it's useless data if it lumps every STD together.

Okay, so youre paranoid, I understand now. Ill see if I can find the online document of this study that was on the news and post it. Apparently, it was taken of Highschool students all across the country. It was an authentic study, so Im sure it was of a very large number, I doubt it was just of 30 people or something. again, Ill see if I can post a link for you. I wouldnt say its useless data just becuase it didnt provide details of the different STDs. The study went something like this: say 1000 high school age kids were randomly tested. 90 of them turned out to have a disease classified as an STD. 90/1000=.09 or 9%. This is how it was done. All it was was one of those population proportion studies, the easiest kind to conduct. We dont need to know what kind of stds were found to know if there really is a 9% chance that a random girl will have an std. all we need to know is that 9% of the sample had a disease classified as an STD. contraction rates really dont matter. The study just predicts that a random girl has a 9% chance of having a disease classified as an STD. What more would you need to know to know if you need to get tested? Are you saying that if the study said that most had HIV youd find it usefull information, but if it said most had clamydia, you wouldnt? Id say a 9% chance of a girl having an STD reguardless of what kind of STD is usedull information, wouldnt you?

How did you get your numbers for more than one girl? Then you make some really bad generalizations and conditions; These numbers are the same in college? How do you know? There's 100% chance you get an STD if this and this and this? But there isn't really? But it's close enough??

Im very proficient in mathematics. I used probability to calculate the probability of having an std if youve slept with n women given the assumptions. THe only thing the study told me was that they found 9% of high school girls have an STD. it was a very simple study. If 9% have an std, this means a random girl has a 9% chance of having an std. THis also means if you sleep with her, and the contraction rate is 100%, then there a 9% chance youll have an STD after sleeping with her. Using probability, I could extend this to the probability of having an STD for someone who slept with n girls. As you know, the more women you sleep with, the higher your chances are of having an STD.

 

[backbreaker]

one out of 7 people in america have HPV... condom or not, it's extremely easy to get HPV, more than half of the people that have it don't have a clue. I don't know how int he hell I have been so lucky not to contract something.. I'm pretty smart and pride myself on my decision making.. but I have made some bonehead decisions when it comes to sex. I go bareback a little too often to be honest with women I don't know. hell last sunday I went on a first date with this chick and we ended up having sex and I sat there and looked at the damn condom and said **** it, and just slid it in raw and she was no damn better, she wanted me to nut inside her!

i get tested every six months, and it's gut rinching everytime but i'm as clean as a whistle

 

[Faded Image]

Anyone can catch anything from anybody at any given time, even if they've only ever slept with one person. Wear condoms even though HPV can spread from skin to skin contact, it will protect you from a lot of the monster that are unforgiven, (HIV)(SIDA which is the AIDS spelling in spanish).