Re:Why are today's teens putting off driving, dating and dri...
by Zak on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @10:18PM
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When I was in high school in the 1990s, the web was in its infancy and I did not use it to look up pictures of STDs, but I knew what they were. I got a basic overview in school describing the cause, symptoms, prognosis, treatment and prevention of the most common ones.
My takeaway from that wasn't that sex was too scary to do, but that condoms were a really good idea.
When I was in high school, I had no idea of what STDs looked like. We learned about it in sex-ed but none of us knew tangibly. There were rumors it was like the flu. Now, google "Genital Warts" and you get an up close view in no time. That alone drives far more caution than what I exercised 25yrs ago.