One-Third of Americans Have an STD: Can the Sexual Revolution Be Declared a Failure Yet?

Decades and billions of dollars later and this is what we’re left with. How bad will thing get before people wake up?

by Brantly Millegan

A new report says 110 million Americans now have an sexually transmitted infection (STI; also known as sexually transmitted disease, STD), more than one third of the nation's population. There were nearly 20 million new infections in 2008 alone, and 50% of the new infections were to people aged 15-24. What does this signal about American culture?

“The evidence is overwhelming,” says Austin Ruse, president of the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-FAM). “The sexual revolution has been tried and shown to be an utter failure. The body count and the diseases continue to rise. Marriages and families are destroyed.”

“The only ones who do not see this are the ideologists who refuse to see the empirical evidence. They are as willfully blind as the most hard-line Stalinists ever were. And they keep asking for more and more of the same.”

Professor Emeritus of Philosophy Fr. James V. Schall thinks the hard questions about the sexual revolution are not being taken seriously. “[I]f 110 million Americans, about one in three, are inflected with ‘sexually transmitted diseases,’ we ask: What good then were the billions of dollars spent to prevent these very diseases? Were they misspent? Why did the preventive measures and cures not work?”

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