STD Facts

Sexually Transmitted Diseases / Infections (STDs)

This year in the United States alone, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ("CDC") estimates that there will be nearly 19 million new cases of STDs, of which roughly half will be lifelong infections. Perhaps even scarier is that 65 million Americans already have a sexually transmitted disease. Furthermore, the risk is the highest for young, active daters. In fact, people between the ages of 15-24 represent only 25% of the US population, yet they will contract more than 50% of the 19 million new cases of STDs this year.

STD Stats at a Glance - The Scary Reality in the United States

• 25% of the population has an STD, almost all are incurable
• 50% of STDs occur in people between 15-24 years of age
• 80% of young people infected with an STD do not know they are infected
• 46% chance of contracting an STD for women during first sexual contact
• 50% of sexually active females between 18-22 years of are infected with HPV
• 70% of genital herpes cases transmitted when no symtpoms present
• 50% of the time, condoms are ineffective in protecting people from genital herpes

Dating Behavior

• The average man has 15 sexual partners in his lifetime
• The average woman has 11 sexual partners
• Only 17% of adults with multiple sex partners report using condoms every time they have sex
• 80% of people with an STD lie or do not disclose it to their partners, generally because they do not know they are infected.
  
• HIV and STDs are the biggest fears for male and female daters when having sex for the first time

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Facts provided by Centers for Disease Control (CDC), The New England Journal of Medicine, Kaiser Family Foundation, The Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS, AVERT. Figures are based on the United States population, which have comparable STD rates to other developed nations, like Canada