Everyone is selling sex and too many are buying it. Our culture tells us that sex is fun, enjoyable, good for you and everyone is doing it, but wait before you get busy make sure you protect yourself. Protect yourself from what? Something that is fun, enjoyable and good for me? Oh, well there is that "silly little reason" we have sex in the first place -babies. But babies aren't something to be afraid of. You were a baby once weren't you? You say you don't want to be a mother or father right now. Oh, well than having sex is sort of problematic. Our sexually saturated culture says we can have all the sex we want and never worry about babies. We are also being told to protect ourselves from Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs). Cool, so I can have all the sex I want and not have any consequences. Well that is what the Safe Sex Lie would have us believe but that is simply not true. . .

Condoms and Pills will not keep you free from harm; they will not keep you safe. Guys are always told to make sure they wear a condom so they don't get a girl pregnant. Girls are told to use the pill or the patch or the shot to make sure they don't get pregnant. But the reality is we are being conned. Con-dumb's (con job for dumb people) fail. They fail at a rate of 14% when it comes to preventing pregnancy. Would you jump out of a plane if your chute would not open 1-out of-7 times? That's 14%, that's not safe. You decide if that sounds safe to you.

What about the pill and other artificial birth control methods? The pill is not good medicine for women. When do we take pills? When we are sick. Taking the oral contraceptive pill (OC) says that a woman's fertility is a disease. The pill changes a woman's body so that her body does not work the way it was designed. The pill is a synthetic hormone, a steroid, and not safe for women. 16 million women take that pill every year but half that number get off the pill because of the harmful side effects each year.

It's not safe and it is not healthy it can hurt your future fertility, and it can't protect you from STD's or a broken heart.

The only solution our culture offers to STDs is using a condom. If condoms are supposed to protect us why will 2.5 million teenagers get a new STD this year alone? We have all heard the condom message. It's a lie! According to the Condom Effective Report done by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) in conjunction with other national health organizations, there is no proof that condoms work when it comes to protecting you from 6-of-8 of the most common STD's. We are told it is safe yet there is no proof that it works? That's so bogus.

Here is the scary reality. Condoms fail not only because they slip and break but because they only cover part of the male anatomy. So if you or your partner has an STD like HPV or Herpes outside the covered area, anywhere from belly button to mid thigh you can catch the disease. You don't have to have sexual intercourse to get an STD. Most STD's can be transmitted through any genital contact. Sexual intercourse, oral sex, mutual masturbation, body parts rubbing together with your clothes off, can transmit most STD's.

Don't buy into the lie. Saving all intimate acts for marriage is the only way to be safe. Many of us are paying the price for the lies of our culture. Her is a little breakdown on how bad it is and what is out there.

• 1-of-5 sexually active Americans has an incurable sexually transmitted disease.
• Every year in the United States 1.5 Million abortions are preformed.
• 1-of-5 abortions are preformed on College women.
• 6.2 million people world wide are infected with Human Papa Loma Virus.
• When the sexual revolution started and sex became recreational there were two known diseases - syphilis and gonorrhea; now there are over 25 significent strains of STD's.
• 1-of-3 sexually active teens in Bucks and Montgomery county, PA has Chlamydia.

HIV (Virus causing AIDS)

40,000

Chlamydia

3,000,000

Gonorrhea

650,000

Syphilis

70,000

Herpes II

1,000,000

HPV (Human Papillomavirus)

5,550,000

PID (Pelvic Inflammatory Disease)

1,000,000

Hepatitis B

120,000

Trichomoniasis

5,000,000

An estimated 19 million STD infections happen each year. More than 65 million people in the United States have an incurable STD. Most people have little knowledge of these diseases.

Consider This:

• There are two types of STDs: bacterial and viral. While bacteria can be cured there is no cure for a virus.
• The most common STDs in the United States are: Chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, genital herpes, human Papillomavirus (HPV), hepatitis B, trichomoniasis, and bacterial vaginosis.
• The most common STDs among teens are Chlamydia, gonorrhea, genital herpes, and HPV. (With HPV and herpes, infection occurs most frequently during the late teens and early twenties)
• HPV, Chlamydia and genital herpes are the most common STDs found throughout the U.S. Chlamydia remains most widespread throughout the southern region of the country probably as a result of high poverty rates and lack of access to quality health care.
• Although STDs are widespread across racial and ethnic groups, STD rates tend to be higher among African Americans than Caucasians.

Human Papillomavirus (HPV)

• Estimated 6.2 million new cases every year
• Viral STD (no cure)
• Sometimes causes genital warts (only about 1% of all sexually active Americans have visible genital warts)
• - The virus can remain in the body for weeks, years, or even a lifetime, giving no sign of its presence
• There are no HPV tests for men and there is no way to treat a man for the virus
• Certain types of the virus cause almost all cases of cervical cancer
• Cervical cancer is the #2 cause of death in women who are diagnosed with cancer (American Cancer Society)
• 14% of female college students become infected with genital HPV each year (Ho, 1998)

Chlamydia

• Estimated 3 million new cases every year
• Bacterial STD
• Known as the "silent sterilizer"
• 80% of women have no symptoms (Medical Institute for Sexual Health, 2000)
• 40% of men have no symptoms (Medical Institute for Sexual Health, 2000)
• If untreated, can cause pelvic inflammatory disease (PID)
• 1 in 5 women with PID becomes infertile
• Women infected with Chlamydia are 3 to 5 times more likely to become infected with HIV

Genital Herpes (herpes simplex virus type 2)

• Estimated 1 million new cases every year
• Viral STD (no cure)
• More than 1 in 5 Americans are infected
• More common in women than men (1 out of 4 women)
• Potential fatal if transmitted to a newborn
• Symptoms include painful ulcers, open sores, blisters in the genital region
• Infected person has increased risk of contracting HIV