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National Condom Week rolls out Monday

February 13, 2004 By admin

Valentine’s Day is tomorrow (Saturday) and kicks off National Condom Week. While sex seems prevalent in our society, Joan Thompson, a health educator at the University of Northern Iowa says statistics show there’s still a staggering lack of communication about intimacy. In visiting with students, Thompson says “It’s a lot easier to have sex than to talk about it,” but she says in this age of sexually-transmitted diseases, it’s vital for couples to talk about what they’ll use for S-T-D prevention. Thompson says S-T-D numbers continue to rise at a stunning rate. An estimated 65-million Americans have S-T-Ds and 15-million more are added to the list every year. Thompson says a recent study found 90-percent of women were embarrassed to discuss sexual issues with their partner. She fears the on-campus education efforts in particular are falling on deaf ears, based on the statistics. Two-thirds of all S-T-Ds occur in people 25-years old or younger, and at least one-in-four Americans will get an S-T-D and some point in their lives. While there are no planned condom give-aways at U-N-I this month, Thompson says year-round give-aways are in place and she goes through “boxes and boxes” each year.

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