Behind The Pose of Sciencyness Is Just Pose

I have got a few minutes to address the adolescent-senescent set who went hysterical over my blog post.

The scientists at the Center for Disease Control have been trying to come up with strategies for reducing the rate of infections with sexually transmitted disease, probably since it was formed seventy years ago.  That would cover the lifetimes of most of the idiots who babble on blogs, even the Geritol and Cialis set sponsored at Eschaton.   Being a gay man who witnessed the AIDS epidemic among gay men, first hand, I've read quite a bit of their published science over the past three decades and longer.  Every single thing that they have ever put out carries the entirely unsurprising and logically unavoidable fact that promiscuity spreads infection with sexually transmitted diseases.

Here is what just one of their publications have to say about Sexual Risk Behaviors: HIV, STD, & Teen Pregnancy Prevention

Many young people engage in sexual risk behaviors that can result in unintended health outcomes. For example, among U.S. high school students surveyed in 20131

• 47% had ever had sexual intercourse.
• 34% had had sexual intercourse during the previous 3 months, and, of these
  • 41% did not use a condom the last time they had sex.
• 15% had had sex with four or more people during their life.
• Only 22% of sexually experienced students have ever been tested for HIV.*

Sexual risk behaviors place adolescents at risk for HIV infection, other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and unintended pregnancy:

• Nearly 10,000 young people (aged 13-24) were diagnosed with HIV infection in the United States in 2013.2
• Young gay and bisexual men (aged 13-24) accounted for an estimated 19% (8,800) of all new HIV infections in the United States, and 72% of new HIV infections among youth in 2010.3
• Nearly half of the 20 million new STDs each year were among young people, between the ages of 15 to 24.4
• Approximately 273,000 babies were born to teen girls aged 15–19 years in 2013.5

To reduce sexual risk behaviors and related health problems among youth, schools and other youth-serving organizations can help young people adopt lifelong attitudes and behaviors that support their health and well-being—including behaviors that reduce their risk for HIV, other STDs, and unintended pregnancy. The National HIV/AIDS Strategy calls for all Americans to be educated about HIV. This includes knowing how HIV is transmitted and prevented, and knowing which behaviors place individuals at greatest risk for infection. HIV awareness and education should be universally integrated into all educational environments.

The ability of people who have been to college - or so they tell us - to deny that is an important issue in the matter of new infections, people in their late middle age, people who lived during the time that the AIDS epidemic killed massive numbers of Americans - even as it still kills massive numbers of people in poor countries is something that would have once staggered me.  I have to say that reading the juvenile babbling of the soon to be senile going on like that in 2016 is something that doesn't surprise me any more than listening to Sarah Palin's lunatic ranting blaming her son's criminal activity on Barack Obama.  Being exposed to such stupidity for years has inured me to reading it among the arrogant, conceited, supposedly educated class in the United States.   And those are the same guys who wonder at the stupidity of other people.

One other thing, I don't call myself a "progressive" I am a traditional American liberal in the original sense of that word.  I am not a late 18th century style liberal which is a totally different thing.   My folks are the ones who ended slavery and tried to establish universal enfranchisement and economic justice and the moral obligation to other people, being responsible.  They're the ones who figured irresponsibility and self-centered thinking should be promoted as freedom.