Pro-Family Leader: Behavioral Change Necessary to Curb STD Epidemic

by Bill Fancher
December 16, 2003

(AgapePress) - Sexually-transmitted diseases have reached epidemic levels in America -- and it doesn't appear the trend will end any time soon.

Twenty-million teenagers are being treated for STDs, and some pediatricians believe another ten million do not know they are already infected. At the same time, AIDS infections among homosexual men have risen 17%.

Genevieve Wood, vice president of communications for the Family Research Council, says the "safe-sex" condom message being promoted by the government is making matters worse.

"The whole idea that there's something called safe sex is just not true," Wood says, "and unfortunately it's taking epidemic STD rates to really wake people up and make them see that just passing out condoms and talking about sex education is not what's going to stop the spread of STDs or unwanted pregnancies."

Three years ago, the National Institutes of Health published a report which found condoms were useless in preventing everything but AIDS. The report was ignored by the mainstream media. It is now known that condoms do not prevent HIV infections either.

So what will stop the rampant spread of STDs? "We have to change behavior," the FRC vice president says. "What causes the spread of sexually transmitted diseases is risky sexual promiscuity -- and until we help people change that behavior, just giving them a condom is like putting a Band-Aid on a gunshot wound. It's really not going to solve the problem."

According to Wood, sexual promiscuity has a price that people are having to pay. Some will be paying the rest of their lives.