'I was just 14 when my boyfriend and I decided to have sex. It wasn't as if it had been an impulsive decision. After all, we'd wanted to wait, but after nine months we gave in, thinking it was the right thing to do. My boyfriend was a year older than me and both of us felt at the time that waiting nine months was commendable. It didn't occur to us that we were too young to deal with the emotional consequences.

It remained a serious health threat in the United States in 2007, the latest year for which statistics are available, largely because of increased transmission among "men who have sex with men" (MSM) in the United States, according to the CDC.

Dr. Gary Rose, president of the Texas-based Medical Institute for Sexual Health, told CNSNews.com that there are several factors behind the rise.

Missing from the study and the fawning news coverage were the collateral-damage data:

The Health Protection Agency says sexually transmitted diseases in Britain have never been higher. STDs in 2006, the last year full data were available, were up 6 percent over 2005; of the 380,000 new cases, 200,000 occurred among 16- to 24-year-olds.

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