Oh for goodness sake people. 1 in four teenagers have sex, well blow me down. you'll notice this sentence "
A virus that causes cervical cancer is by far the most common sexually transmitted infection in teen girls aged 14 to 19".
As they say later, they are talking about Human Papilloma viruses or HPV.
For his particular STD ...
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Genital HPV infections are very common and are sexually transmitted. Most HPV infections occur without any symptoms and go away without any treatment over the course of a few years (see Question 1, 4 and 5).
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You don't know you have it, and until very recently it wasn't tested for as being generally symptom-less it was regarded as unimportant.
As they have discovered however they are the leading cause of cervical cancer but being a simple little collection of viruses there are vaccines available which all girls should be given from the age of 9 through 26. One shot, once, no more cervical cancer.
Next, you'll notice this sentence
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other types of intimate behavior including oral sex can spread some infections
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In other words, sexually transmitted disease also encompasses
Herpes simplex, the 'kissing disease'
infectious mononucleosis etc etc. Lot's of them, most transmitted by simple physical contact.
So, seen any kids with cold sores? If so, they are irresponsible raving nymphomaniacs according to this article (or you interpretation), and you'll note that for some reason it's only the girls mentioned, not the boys,
who also have all these viruses.
In fact, I'm happily willing to wager that
all of the male membership of this forum, if
they have had more than 3 sexual partners during their lifetime, will be carrying at least one and quite possibly two STDs (HPV is almost certain)