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AN EPIDEMIC OF SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES

The conclusions of the Supreme Court of Canada that promiscuous "swinging" sex was not harmful to society were exposed as being prejudicial and irrational by the recent release of a report by the Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Canada (SOGC).

How little the judges on the Supreme Court of Canada know. How little they understand.

The report of the SOGC disclosed that great harm is caused by promiscuous sex. The SOGC report states that since 1997 there has been an 80% increase in gonorrhea and a 70% increase in chlamydia and a staggering 908% increase in syphilis cases in Canada. The association called this an "epidemic:" The majority of the 598 cases of syphilis diagnosed in 2004 were in homosexual men, while 15 - 24 years old women accounted for the great majority of the 30,000 chlamydia cases in 2004. Men aged 20 to 29 accounted for the majority of the 4,023 cases of gonorrhea in 2004.

Tragically, teens (who can give a legal consent to sex at 14 years of age) are participating more and more in oral sex, believing it is "safe" i.e. won't cause pregnancy. They are totally unaware that oral sex can lead to sexually transmitted diseases such as chlamydia, which does not show symptoms until later stages of the disease, but is a major cause of the increasing prevalence of infertility in women.

Young teens are also participating in oral sex more frequently because of the demise of teen social dating. Instead, they "hook-up" with boys with whom they have no emotional ties but are just acquaintances. They agree to have oral sex with them on a "friendly" basis in order to please them and to show their sexual "empowerment". Instead of empowerment such behaviour means humiliation and debasement, yet teens continue to do it on the strength that such actions are permissible in today's society.

Why is such casual promiscuity happening? We can blame our sex obsessed society. Movies, and TV portray casual sex as commonplace and acceptable with no consequences, physical or emotional.

But we can also blame our Supreme Court of Canada, which naively believes that promiscuous sex causes no harm. By its decision, it has sent a distinct message to everyone - especially our impressionable adolescents, that all consensual sex is permissible, any time, any way with anybody.

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