When so many New Yorkers with multiple sex partners are not using condoms????? And the age range is the most startling part. 18-24 - 20% aren't using condoms; 25-44 - 39% are not using condoms; 45+ - 44% are not using condoms! Now the group that should be the most ashamed of this bullshit behavior is the 25-44 because these are adults who group up in the era of AIDS and STD'S and SAFE SEX campaigns. They lack the "young and stupid excuse". Oh yea and just in case you were interested, 1 in 4 New Yorkers has Herpes. I wonder why....
Read the article below....
Poll: New Yorkers not having safe sex
BY KATHLEEN LUCADAMO
DAILY NEWS CITY HALL BUREAU
Tuesday, June 24th 2008, 11:06 PM
Now playing in New York: unsafe sex and the city.
A Health Department report out Tuesday shows that 40% of New Yorkers with multiple partners didn't use a condom the last time they had sex.
And 11% of us had more than one partner in the past year, the study found.
Men were three times more likely to list multiple partners than women, 17% compared with 6%.
Married folks and committed couples were also part of the mix: 5% of them counted two or more partners in the past year.
Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden warned New Yorkers to slip on a condom and stick with fewer partners to avoid catching a sexually transmitted disease or landing an unwanted pregnancy.
"Tens of thousands of New Yorkers put themselves at risk by having unsafe sex," Frieden said.
More than one third of women ages 18-44 said they didn't use any contraception during their last sexual encounter - yet 83% said they weren't planning a pregnancy, according to the data. In 2006, half of all pregnancies were unplanned. The city also diagnosed 60,000 STDs that year, including 3,745 HIV cases.
Frieden urged residents to go for STD testing at 10 express Health Department clinics across the city, which can be located by calling 311.
The agency also offers free emergency contraception to prevent pregnancy after unprotected sex, known as Plan B, and has free condoms available.
The report is based on telephone surveys with 10,000 city adults.
4 comments:
These are such disturbing statistics. It is as if no one really gets it. I think somewhere the message has been lost. I was sitting in my car listening to the radio and heard the newest message on HIV/AIDS. It is not about protecting yourself from the disease; it is all about a “once daily HIV medication that keeps your viral count low”. Don’t get me wrong, I think research is great, and people with HIV/AIDS deserve to live happy and healthy lives; but when did the message stop being about protection, and start being about just dealing. WOW! We have really lost the message.
Do we still believe that being a “player” is cute; or giving it up for “love” is okay…when do we being to start asking the right questions? When was the last time you were tested, how many sexual partners have you had, and do you have any STDs…and stop worrying about less meaningful stuff like the type of car he drives and what he does for a living. None of this matters if he gives you HIV. It is time to step into reality.
"Married folks and committed couples were also part of the mix: 5% of them counted two or more partners in the past year."--
damn, so even in these relationships you need to be asking "are you monogomous?" just to do a check. that is very alarming and aside from being stupid, i wonder what the reasons are for not protecting themselves. and i agree, these commercials making it seem like HIV, Herpes, other STD's are just managable and almost ok to have. but i always wonder, who's the HIV neg. person dating the HIV pos. person and knew up front? maybe its just me, but wouldn't nothing be going on regardless of how many barriers were between us.
I agree that the ads to help people "live" with these diseases seems like we have gotten a little bit off message. I imagine it takes some of the fear out of getting one of these diseases because in the back of the mind the idea exists that there is a "cure". Its like how back in the days people would run from the common cold. Now its like oh ok, I will just pick up some meds at the drug store and be alright. Yes we need to know that these meds are out here because frankly this can happen to ANY of us - whether or not you are part of the 40% who dont use condoms with multiple partners or the rest who think you are in a relationship where the other person is being faithful.... I really wish everyone would be more careful and I can honestly say that I am indeed that careful, no in just the act of using a condom, but as a single woman, having condoms in my home, at my disposle so there arent any excuses. In addition, we have to choose those "managomous" partners wisely. Just because he calls you his girlfriend does NOT mean he is just with you. Keep the condom on until you are married seems safe - except according to this study even married people are getting it in with people who arent their spouse without a condom....
this may just be semantics but how are "multiple partners" being quantified? multiple people that you are currently sleeping with or the numbers of partners you've had in a certain time period? if 40% are not using condoms w/ multiple partners, 11% with more than one partner this year...isn't somebody getting counted twice?
not that it matters much, just asking?.
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