Human Sexuality

When the AIDS epidemic first hit the United States in the very early 1980 's , people did not know what exactly it was which was killing the people in this country . An individual would report to his doctor 's office feeling sick and the doctor was unable to treat that person . He slowly died and the medical community was the wiser as to what killed that person . This continued for a couple of years until the medical community was able to pinpoint the disease as HIV which will eventually result in that person

contracting the AIDS virus . At first heterosexual people had a false sense of security because it was seen as only a disease for homosexuals and that heterosexuals , regardless of the level of risky behavior which they participated in , would be forever helped protective from acquiring the disease . The homosexual population had been on the fringe of society for some time and their own person conduct and moral choices were seen as a proper punishment . As a result of this belief , millions of the sexually active in this country did not protect themselves . The only thing which a person was afraid of contracting was an STD or pregnancy and there were many ways in which a person could protect themselves in that manner . However , at that time straight couples were becoming infected despite taking all of the precautions which were believed to be the common ways in which one protects themselves . What was not known that efforts made in the prevention of getting the woman pregnant a condom or birth control , did nothing to protect both people from contaminating their bodies with the disease . As a result , millions of people in America as well as around the world , spread this deadly disease to their loved ones as well as people that they didn 't even knew . As a result , millions of people in America and to a greater extent , the rest of the world , became infected with the HIV virus out of ignorance since people did little to protect themselves

Teenagers by nature are seen to take more risks that their older peers Car insurance for teenagers is much higher than for the rest of the general public and a teenager will sometimes find it difficult to open up a checking account or to get a loan from a bank for a specific purchase . This is because the traditional behavior of teenagers makes the banks and car insurance cautious that their lack of responsibility There are much more consequences , many times with deadly results , when individuals risk their lives when they conduct themselves in such risky behavior as unprotected sex . In the more than twenty five years since the AIDS epidemic hit the United States , teenagers are still having sex without protection . The fact that teenagers are having sex at all should alarm and frighten every parent as well as every concerned citizen in this country . Teenagers who have sex are still at risk of contracting a...