We had something else to be thankful for besides family, friends and turkey this year. Just in time for Thanksgiving, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a report showing that
sex in the United States was noticeably in 2009. Ten percent fewer cases of
gonorrhea were reported in 2009 than in 2008. And the rate of
syphilis infections among women didn’t rise—something that hasn’t happened in five years. These stats are of course great news, but I’d also like to think that they mean Americans are having
safer sex in general. That could potentially mean we’ll see drops in other
STDs and unplanned pregnancies for 2010. Maybe it’s just me (my university, after all, happened to rank first in Trojan’s 2010 Sexual Heath Report Card), but I feel like lower rates of STDs and unplanned
pregnancy are New Year’s resolutions we might actually be able to keep.
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