Monsters in Your Pants (Part3)

Colleges most likely have way more students that you had at your high school back home, and with more students comes more awareness of your surroundings.  Make sure that if you’re going to be sexually active in college, than you better gain full trust and get to know your partner very well. Do you know who your partner has slept with previous to you? Well you might think you do because of what he/she has told you, but you can never be one-hundred percent sure.  Being that you’ll never know for sure who your partner has slept with before you; when you decide to sleep with him/her, just know that you’re always going to have a chance at catching a Sexually Transmitted Disease. Statistics shown from “Sex, Lies and HIV,” The New England Journal of Medicine, reveals the following information: 34% of men and 10% of women have told lies in order to have sex, 68% of men and 59% of women have been involved with more than one person that their current partner doesn¹t know about, and 47% of men and 42% of women would understate the number of their previous partners in order to convince someone to have sex. From these statistics alone, such information has basically said that more than half of our sexual encounters could be simply lies for all you know. Could sex possibly mean more to our college students than their peers or sex partners? Just think about it, if we have the nerve to lie to get sex, than we obviously know that we could past our dangerous STD to another. Maybe it’s that we for sure know that we’re positive, or think that with a condom you can’t past on your sexually transmitted disease. In this type of situation, lies can eventually turn into death for a student. “Most HIV and STD educational programs are taught at the high school level. Very few are taught at the college level. Many of these programs discuss HIV and STDs primarily from an informational or clinical point of view (transmission, symptoms, etc.). Unfortunately, many of these programs do not discuss behavioral risk reduction issues like condom negotiation skills, and ways to talk to a potential sexual partner about HIV/STDs” stated in a response from the body Q/A’s, by Rick Sowadsky. Although we might think we’re too old for a sex talk, this just might be what college students need. Another big problem could be that we just don’t know how to ask our mate if he/she is positive for an STD, so we simply don’t. I would like to be STD negative and figure out a way to ask my partner, being overly cautious seems to be the only solution to the stop of sexually transmitted diseases these days.