Sex infections still growing in U.S., says CDC

[Heracles 417]

I've come to the conclusion that you are a troll and post for reaction. There is no way in hell anyone could possibly be that stupid. I do know a bit about you. This is all an act. So you're a troll, just like you say I am. Only thing is, I'm not a racist and I don't attack peoples families or ethnicity. Your wife would shut you off if she knew what you posted here.

Why? What is your problem now? You ask a question then complain about the answers.

Since you are in construction, no wonder the big dig was a bunch of ####### up there. Did you have something to do with that failed project? Whereas, we dug massive mile deep tunnels, in amongst rivers and swampland, and did not miss a beat in Melb. We even beat you on that front..

Clearly there's no correlation "white culture" and criminal behavior. Thanks for using your magic decoder ring to shed light on this matter.

Care to explain this?

US Homicide rate: (Per 100,000)

Whites: 4.8

Blacks: 36.9

Source: FBI, Supplementary Homicide Reports, 1976-2005.

Edited November 17, 2009 by Booyah!

[spookyturtle 9,465]

I've come to the conclusion that you are a troll and post for reaction. There is no way in hell anyone could possibly be that stupid. I do know a bit about you. This is all an act. So you're a troll, just like you say I am. Only thing is, I'm not a racist and I don't attack peoples families or ethnicity. Your wife would shut you off if she knew what you posted here.

Why? What is your problem now?

No problem at all. I'm calling a spade a spade. I have pointed out many things that I agree with you in principle. I have not attacked or antagonized you at all. I asked you several legitimate questions. You posted your typical arrogant answers. We both know that isn't true. You do it to stir the pot, fine.

[Heracles 417]

No problem at all. I'm calling a spade a spade. I have pointed out many things that I agree with you in principle. I have not attacked or antagonized you at all. I asked you several legitimate questions. You posted your typical arrogant answers. We both know that isn't true. You do it to stir the pot, fine.

First off, you are lucky I even spent my time answering you. If you don't like or agree with what I post, you have the choice to add me to your ignore list. Alternatively, I could give you a quarter so you can call someone who cares.

I am not the one obsessed with following me around. OMFG Booyah posted wha wha wha

Edited November 17, 2009 by Booyah!

[HAL 9000 96]

Blacks tend to be more STDs??

Danno believes there's a correlation between skin color and behavior...and he's got the stats to prove it.

"skin color"?? Is that all a Black person is to you... just someone with darker skin?

You cited parts of the country which have the highest concentration of Blacks ...and you pretend it has no implication.

Tsk tsk tsk

If you are going to be critical of Blacks at least come out and say it- "Blacks like religion and sex"

Well yeah Danno... what other thing is a black person other than a human being with more melanin content in their melanocytes than, say... a white person?

Care to share your perspective??

How do you suppose a decomposed corps is racially identified long after skin and hair are gone?

You do realize there are a number of illnesses which afflict blacks at a greater numbers which have nothing to do with skin or lifestyle.

Your focus on the most identifiable trait (skin color) is lame Hal.

Try me on the epidemiology of race. You *may* learn a thing or two about how geography has this awesome tendency to concentrate genes.

Not my focus, its your own ridiculous usage of verbiage. Perhaps you could just write better to go beyond differential language- but that might not suit your weird fixation with non caucasoids.

[Heracles 417]

Try me on the epidemiology of race. You *may* learn a thing or two about how geography has this awesome tendency to concentrate genes.

Not my focus, its your own ridiculous usage of verbiage. Perhaps you could just write better to go beyond differential language- but that might not suit your weird fixation with non caucasoids.

One again Agassi, he is not talking about race or skin color. Stop disingenuously trying to make it out to be about that.

Edited November 17, 2009 by Booyah!

[HAL 9000 96]

Blacks tend to be more STDs??

Danno believes there's a correlation between skin color and behavior...and he's got the stats to prove it.

"skin color"?? Is that all a Black person is to you... just someone with darker skin?

You cited parts of the country which have the highest concentration of Blacks ...and you pretend it has no implication.

Tsk tsk tsk

If you are going to be critical of Blacks at least come out and say it- "Blacks like religion and sex"

Well yeah Danno... what other thing is a black person other than a human being with more melanin content in their melanocytes than, say... a white person?

Care to share your perspective??

How do you suppose a decomposed corps is racially identified long after skin and hair are gone?

You do realize there are a number of illnesses which afflict blacks at a greater numbers which have nothing to do with skin or lifestyle.

Your focus on the most identifiable trait (skin color) is lame Hal.

Try me on the epidemiology of race. You *may* learn a thing or two about how geography has this awesome tendency to concentrate genes.

Not my focus, its your own ridiculous usage of verbiage. Perhaps you could just write better to go beyond differential language- but that might not suit your weird fixation with non caucasoids.

For some odd reason I am reminded of how you resemble Jimmy the Greek and why he had to leave the sports world for making idiotic statements on race.

[spookyturtle 9,465]

No problem at all. I'm calling a spade a spade. I have pointed out many things that I agree with you in principle. I have not attacked or antagonized you at all. I asked you several legitimate questions. You posted your typical arrogant answers. We both know that isn't true. You do it to stir the pot, fine.

First off, you are lucky I even spent my time answering you. If you don't like or agree with what I post, you have the choice to add me to your ignore list. Alternatively, I could give you a quarter so you can call someone who cares.

I am not the one obsessed with following me around. OMFG Booyah posted wha wha wha

You're a lost cause. Maybe I'll call your wife and tell her what you do.

[Heracles 417]

For some odd reason I am reminded of how you resemble Jimmy the Greek and why he had to leave the sports world for making idiotic statements on race.

Still on the race bandwagon.

Nonetheless, are Africans not better at a number of sports than Caucasians? Is this not due to genetics?

[SuperDuper! 230]

this is an immigration board, so i am baffled at the lack of understanding about the connection between immigration and the resurgence of syph. this disease was nearly erradicated from the USA until the late 90's. it is increasing on the atlantic seaboard in recent years. the cause of the resurgence? immigration from puerto rico. google it.

Sure doctor JAS, sure.... oh, btw, Puerto Ricans do not "immigrate" to the US.. they are USCs. Just sayin'

Too late to back peddle this one: "OFFICIAL NAG." just sayin'

[HAL 9000 96]

this is an immigration board, so i am baffled at the lack of understanding about the connection between immigration and the resurgence of syph. this disease was nearly erradicated from the USA until the late 90's. it is increasing on the atlantic seaboard in recent years. the cause of the resurgence? immigration from puerto rico. google it.

Sure doctor JAS, sure.... oh, btw, Puerto Ricans do not "immigrate" to the US.. they are USCs. Just sayin'

Too late to back peddle this one: "OFFICIAL NAG." just sayin'

its never too late. dem furrigners ya know... speekin spanish and all. they all need to have green cards.

[Danno 1,228]

Blacks tend to be more STDs??

Danno believes there's a correlation between skin color and behavior...and he's got the stats to prove it.

"skin color"?? Is that all a Black person is to you... just someone with darker skin?

You cited parts of the country which have the highest concentration of Blacks ...and you pretend it has no implication.

Tsk tsk tsk

If you are going to be critical of Blacks at least come out and say it- "Blacks like religion and sex"

Well yeah Danno... what other thing is a black person other than a human being with more melanin content in their melanocytes than, say... a white person?

Care to share your perspective??

How do you suppose a decomposed corps is racially identified long after skin and hair are gone?

You do realize there are a number of illnesses which afflict blacks at a greater numbers which have nothing to do with skin or lifestyle.

Your focus on the most identifiable trait (skin color) is lame Hal.

Try me on the epidemiology of race. You *may* learn a thing or two about how geography has this awesome tendency to concentrate genes.

Not my focus, its your own ridiculous usage of verbiage. Perhaps you could just write better to go beyond differential language- but that might not suit your weird fixation with non caucasoids.

Hal when you get through with your journals and petroleum jelly.... feel free to answer my questions.

[Jamaican JNR 2]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – American squeamishness about talking about sex has helped keep common sexually transmitted infections far too common, especially among vulnerable teens, U.S. researchers reported Monday.

Latest statistics on chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis show the three highly treatable infections continue to spread in the United States.

"Chlamydia and gonorrhea are stable at unacceptably high levels and syphilis is resurgent after almost being eliminated," said John Douglas, director of the division of sexually transmitted diseases at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

"We have among the highest rates of STDs of any developed country in the world," Douglas added in a telephone interview.

The administration of President Barack Obama has signaled a willingness to move away from so-called abstinence-only sex education approaches promoted by his predecessor, George W. Bush, and conservative state and local governments.

Several studies have shown such approaches do not work well and that it is better to encourage abstinence while also offering children and teens information about how to protect themselves from diseases as well as pregnancy.

"We haven't been promoting the full battery of messages," Douglas said. "We have been sending people out with one seatbelt in the whole car."

SOARING RATES

The CDC's latest study on STDs found:

* 1.2 million cases of chlamydia were reported in 2008, up from 1.1 million in 2007.

* Nearly 337,000 cases of gonorrhea were reported.

* Adolescent girls 15 to 19 years had the most chlamydia and gonorrhea cases of any age group at 409,531.

* Blacks, who represent 12 percent of the U.S. population, accounted for about 71 percent of reported gonorrhea cases and almost half of all chlamydia and syphilis cases in 2008.

* Black women 15 to 19 had the highest rates of chlamydia and gonorrhea.

* 13,500 syphilis cases were reported in 2008, an almost 18 percent increase from 2007.

* 63 percent of syphilis cases were among men who have sex with men.

* Syphilis rates among women increased 36 percent from 2007 to 2008.

Syphilis, chlamydia and gonorrhea can all be treated with antibiotics but untreated can cause pelvic inflammatory disease, infertility, ectopic pregnancy and can infect newborns.

Douglas said better sex education can help.

"We are not honestly and openly dealing with this issue and it's the larger issue of sexual health," he said.

Douglas said children and teens need to know about condom use, and should limit their number of sex partners and avoid sex with people who do have many other sex partners.

"If you are a man who has sex with men you ought to be getting a battery of STD tests every year," Douglas added.

In addition, black Americans need to understand their risks. Douglas said high rates of incarceration of men in many black communities meant fewer men have sex with more women, in turn often spreading sexually transmitted diseases.

Overall, CDC estimates that 19 million new sexually transmitted infections occur each year, almost half among 15- to 24-year-olds.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091116/us_nm/...ex_diseases_usa

Thanks for the info.

[AlHayatZween 2]

i can't read all the posts b/c i'm hungry...

i've been working with young people for a decade now... in the Bronx, most of my students were high-school age African American and Latinos. now i'm in Louisiana and most of my college-age students are Caucasian... all i can say is that it doesn't matter what color or where they come from, kids ARE having sex these days. even if they consider themselves "religious" or if their parents are religious or whatever, young people are getting it on... in all sizes, shapes, & colors.

[Ban Hammer 13,336]

all of the emotional problems that come with sexual promiscuity

What problems?

--- i can't sit down anymore with all of this sexual promiscuity!

Edited November 17, 2009 by charles!

[Marilyn. 340]

Puerto Ricans have been citizens of the United States since a law was passed in 1917. Even though they are citizens, Puerto Ricans pay no federal income tax and they can not vote for president. Unrestricted U.S. migration of Puerto Ricans has made New York City the one place with the most Puerto Ricans anywhere in the world (over one million).

http://geography.about.com/od/specificplac.../puertorico.htm

Since Puerto Rico is an unincorporated territory and not a U.S. state, the U.S. Constitution does not fully enfranchise US citizens residing in Puerto Rico. Since 1917, people born in Puerto Rico are U.S. citizens. As such, they are entitled to vote at the federal level, but not from the island, as the territory is not incorporated. The legal restriction to vote at the federal level extends only to the territory, not to its citizens. In this fashion, all U.S. citizens can vote at the federal level from any part of the world or incorporated territories of the U.S. By the same token, no U.S. citizen may vote at the federal level if they reside in Puerto Rico, although they can vote at the "state" (local) level.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rico

Edited November 17, 2009 by Marilyn.