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Originally Posted by Crompsin
STDs are a huge scare for society today and rightly so: AIDS is a nightmare.
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Yes is a giant scare today but one I think is vastly over rated, its the shark attack syndrome.
Lets take that nightmare of aids and me with my 18 year old girlfriend back in the Precambrian. I'll even use todays numbers which are higher, and from the CDC.
As of 2005 there were 5,289 total aids cases between the ages of 15-19 in the US.
Its approximately a 7-1 ratio in aids cases of male to female numbers wise.
Its about a 3-1 ratio of non-white to white.
In a very low risk group in terms of socioeconomic factors.
Sure she could have been one of the estimated 251 white females in that age group with aids, which is high since shes wasn't 15, 16, 17, or 19. The chance of me running into one of those 15-19 year old with aids would be .0025%.
Again that doesn't count socio-economic factors, and thats just those who HAVE it, we are going to assume that those who know and are sexually active or dont' know to be even lower.
No, I don't think AIDS was a good reason, or is a good reason for an STD test among any woman I'd be likely to have sex with.
The only one that would worry me is HSV-2 and thats not fatal, just really annoying.