The Dark Shadow Over Illicit Sex

Those who advocated premarital sex in the '60s assured us that premarital sex was healthy and good for us. Liberated sex was not only pleasurable; it was even supposed to be beneficial. But now, 40 years later, what is the track record of free-sex relationships? Besides the fact that promiscuity causes relationship and emotional difficulties—rather than solving them—the physical results of casual sex have proven dangerous and destructive. Rates of sexually transmitted diseases have gone through the roof. What are we doing to ourselves? Consider:

"Worldwide, estimates hold that there are more than 300 million cases of STIs (sexually transmitted infections) annually" (Johns Hopkins Family Health Book, 1999, p. 861).
"Heterosexual intercourse is the fastest growing way to catch HIV. Around the world, over 90 percent of AIDS cases are spread by heterosexual intercourse"
(S.I. McMillen, M.D., and David E. Stern, M.D., None of These Diseases, 2000, p. 111).
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