More Sex Brings More Risk

Condoms: Few professionals are using the phrase "safe sex" anymore; most have switched to saying "safer sex" because condoms do not provide 100% protection they have a 17% failure rate. That means there is a 1 in 6 chance that the condom will fail, even if used properly. [1]

Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD): Many partners lie about their past sexual activity and 80% of people infected with a STD do not even know it. STDs are contagious even if you have no symptoms. You can be infected with many STD symptoms for weeks, or in some cases, years. Some STDs are incurable and can eventually kill.

When you have sex with someone, you are having sex with everyone they have had sex with in the last 10 years, and everyone that their partners have had sex with in the last 10 years. [2-3]

Unintended Pregnancy: In one year alone it was found that there were over 2.1 million unintended pregnancies in women younger than 25 years old in the U.S. This represented 68% of all pregnancies during that year in this age group.[4]

100% Safe: The only way to completely avoid risk of STDs and is to wait to be involved in sexual activity until you are in a faithful, monogamous relationship (like marriage) with an uninfected partner.

Referenece:

1. Kinsey Institute

2. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

3. C. Everett Koop, former US Surgeon General

4. Henshaw SK, Unintended pregnancy in the United States, Family Planning Perspectives, 1998, 30(1), calculated from table 1, found at: http://www.agi-usa.org/pubs/journals/3002498.html, accessed on 3-7-05.