By Nicholas Whitt |Staff Writer|
Sex—a wonderful experience that is explored vigorously in college but just like many wonderful experiences, there are consequences if one is not cautious, which seems to be lacking in today’s world.
“It’s estimated that each year, there are nearly 3 million new chlamydia infections in the U.S. Chlamydia is most common among young people ages 15 to 24,” according to It’s Your (Sex) Life, MTV’s public information campaign.
With 18 to 24 the prime age for people attending college, having safe sex seems to be slacking a bit.
Almost as if they have no concern if they obtain a sexually transmitted disease (STD), sexually transmitted infection (STI), or become pregnant.
Well, it makes sense when “one in four college students has an STD,” according to nursingschools.net.
College students practicing safe sex seems almost as if it was a folk story being told about the lone condom saving only few individuals who are accepted by it.
“The only protection that is essential is the pull out method, because if the girl had anything wrong with her you would be able to tell, so worrying about pregnancy is the only issue,” said student Brian Brodie.
This is not a response that should be accepted; especially with all the harmful things that can happen to your body if you obtain any STD or STI.
Unless you’re okay with peeing fire every time you use the bathroom, or dying
The odd things is, students are given a plethora of resources and information on safe sex and CSUSB is no exception.
The Student Health Center offers a program for students called Family PACT, a family planning program that helps with any person wanting to avoid all potential dangers of sexual intercourse.
It is available to all students attending CSUSB, is completely confidential, and takes a couple of minutes to fill out a small amount of paper work.
The staff running the program are completely understandable and non-judgmental, only preaching that you as a student are taking the necessary steps towards practicing safe sex.
Establishing the point that no matter the relationship your partner and you have, safe sex must still be the number one option.
“Even in a monogamous relationship, you must still practice safe sex, it’s your body not your partners…,” said Health Education Assitant Judi Cruz.
The resources are available to students, yet the program only obtained around 3,000 students either new or returning Family PACT members yet there are more than 20,000 students currently attending CSUSB.
Students need to realize how crucial and devastating not having safe sex is.
Cruz continued, as a student there are enough stresses you must deal with every single day—being pregnant or obtaining a STD or STI should not be a concern.
College is about doing things you would normally not do, but that doesn’t mean you should invite Gonorrhea into your life just because you wanted to have fun for one night.
Every college student likes to follow the wise words of Notorious B.I.G. “We like to party and bullshit,” but being risky is no way to live life.
Remember it’s your body; take care of it and be cautious of potential threatening consequences.
Wendy Mandell-Geller says
March 9, 2016 at 6:09 AM"HOW to do this consent thing.” YES to SEX, a Sexual Consent App Available Worldwide, Offers The 1st Safe Step
When it comes to consensual safe sex between two individuals, there are topics that absolutely need to be taught and addressed upfront in pre-sex conversations. “It is time to redirect our sexual culture away from the epidemics of violence, unplanned pregnancies, and rampantly spreading sexually transmitted diseases and infections. YES to SEX is a free to use smartphone app that promotes pre-sex communication and safe consensual sex, doubling as a teaching tool. In as little as 25 seconds, whether using one phone or two, the app creates a private opportunity for partners to make their important pre-sex decisions together,” says President and Inventor Wendy Mandell-Geller of Safe Sex Consent Inc. Affirmative Consent, Yes Means Yes and new regulations tell people WHO, WHAT, WHEN and WHY they must get affirmative consent. Only the YES to SEX app delivers the HOW to get initial verbal consent, agree on protection and share safe words for later, in a quick and easy app format.
This millennium prevention and intervention app impacts campus environments by being able to quickly educate and help students have a tool in their hand to use regarding sexual consent. There is nothing better to prepare students to consent (or how to say NO easily) at the time the situation arises, then to teach them HOW to consent on the same app they will eventually use to Sexually Consent for real – in the heat of the moment, when they are alone with a partner, when it counts! Solutions are obviously being sought out internationally, as over 11,000 College administrators, Title IX leaders, professors, sexual consent and assault groups all viewed this app through-out the world last month, and that was without any media coverage as the app was in testing.
YES to SEX is free to use, with no sign-up – so there is no excuse for students not to use it – since their phones are always in their hands. It brings safe consensual pre-sex conversations into in the heat of the moment, when they are alone with a partner, when it counts! This app protects each partner with the power of choices and a voice in the decision.
“Complete privacy of our users is a top priority.” President Mandell-Geller states. “The app is free to use, and requires no sign-up, names, faces, videos, fingerprints, emails, phone numbers, social media information or signatures. Once you close the app, nothing remains saved on any phone, and no one can access any records to peek or to make changes. The date, time, place, and voice recordings are stored on YES to SEX's secure cloud servers, using the same data encryption as the Department of Defense. Why voice captures without videos, pictures or personal information? Voices alone cannot be searched on the internet, and certainly not encrypted voices.”
This app invention goes beyond what is currently available anywhere regarding safe sexual consent. It enables and empowers users to discuss important details with their partners and communicate their decisions to say, ‘yes’ or ‘no’ in a very clear and comfortable way. YES to SEX is the mobile sexual consent app solution that high-schools, universities, colleges, sororities, fraternities, athletic associations, the military, and dating services are seeking. A way to create Safe Sex Consent campuses and communities everywhere, the YES to SEX app protects each partner with the power of choices and a voice in the decision.