<p>Vehicle, let them get STDs, and when they do, they`ll look like the dumb ones (they already do).</p>
<p>I personally have had unprotected sex with many different fellow students- but only the rich ones- in the hopes that one of them will get me pregnant and will have to marry me and then I can be a trophy wife. I think that’s the reasoning for most girls, actually.</p>
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<p>You can decrease your chance of getting into a car crash by not driving at all. You can move into a place near your work and walk. But then your paranoia would be taking over part of your life, just like abstaining from sex would be; or, as you say, only having sex with people you know well.</p>
<p>My point is that, to most people, driving is worth the risk.
And to most people, having sex (with protection), is also worth the risk. Calling it irresponsible is just asinine.</p>
<p>Vitaro, since you ignored my post, can you tell me why UCSB’s own research seems to contradict your claims?</p>
<p>[UCSB’s</a> SexInfo - Prevalence of STIs among UCSB Students](<a href=“http://www.soc.ucsb.edu/sexinfo/?article=PUtV]UCSB’s”>http://www.soc.ucsb.edu/sexinfo/?article=PUtV)</p>
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<p>Maury will not allow that. He is not the father.</p>
<p>I read in a newspaper last year, that more innocent people die due to drunk drivers, than do drunks. So perhaps you’re safer driving recklessly?</p>
<p>If you know the individuals you sleep with, and they’re being truthful when they say they’re clean, then yes, it IS definite that you won’t contract anything. It’s not like you can pick up stuff from toilet seats or whatever urban legends would have people believe.</p>
<p>Also, I don’t know if the driving analogy is entirely appropriate… I mean, in most areas, there are lots of people out on the road at once. Continuing the metaphor, I can only think of a couple people at my college that could have qualified as an “interstate.”</p>
<p>What if the individual you sleep with goes and gets a tattoo of your name, but with an HIV infected needle?</p>
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<p>^ Then the world stops rotating.</p>
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<p>no, you just don’t understand the point I was trying to make. See my above post.</p>
<p>*rc251: I am not sure if you are aware, but there are these things called ‘jokes’. *</p>
<p>Ok, fine. I just see this claim brought up from time to time by people who think it’s real. Since I post often on the UCSB board, it’s annoying to always have to debunk this myth.</p>
<p>lol ok wat is so hard about this people? really</p>
<p>PROTECTED SEX!!!</p>
<p>tada, end of story. dont be stupid, like all the ppl that already have such a disease. be responsible. you can get condoms for free at the health center. you are taught about this in ur lower education as well as your parents, use this knowledge.</p>
<p>plus, this isnt wat the OP was asking, he didnt need a million reasons to not have sex, or crazy sex, or unprotected sex, he was asking why therez more sex in college.</p>
<p>Actually I was trying to make a joke about “high-traffic areas”. I’m in the health care field… I understand about relative risk.</p>
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<p>Or you can come to NYC and get them for free in every public restroom, Starbucks, subway station, and I’m sure they stick a couple in McDonalds Happy Meals, you know, for those toddler whores.</p>
<p>There’s nothing “fun” about the actual act of sex. That’s like saying going pee is fun. Roleplaying with your partner on the toilet makes going potty fun too then, huh. Seems like most college kids are more concerned with “fitting in” than the actual point of sex (kids). Sex shouldn’t even be a critical part of a relationship. There’s always fertility treatments and adoption.</p>
<p>I have no reason to trust some random person who I don’t want kids / spend my life with. Only pathetic losers who have nothing going for them hookup with any dud.</p>
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<p>There’s nothing wrong with a hookup, as long as you use protection. Condoms are EXTREMELY effective when used correctly, so if you’re educated and you or your partner is also using a form of hormonal birth control, you’re pretty damn safe. </p>
<p>I work for Planned Parenthood & pass out condoms to random people at least once a week (and to my friends almost every day). It’s better to encourage people to be safe than to ignorantly think they’ll just stop having sex if you tell them they’re “nasty.”</p>
<p>Plus, simply having sex is good. It can be fun, casual and pleasurable as long as there’s consent and contraception. Making love is better, but that doesn’t mean I’m never going to “go to Taco Bell” like Opie said, especially if I have no access to a nice kitchen :)</p>
<p>“Because they can” seems to be the most spot on answer, in my opinion. Why not?</p>
<p>“There’s nothing “fun” about the actual act of sex.”
um…i believe any girl’s clit. begs to differ. just sayin’.</p>
<p>why r there so many responses to this thread. if u want to have sex, have sex. if u want to wait until marriage, wait until marriage. if you’re in the .0000000000001% of the population that doesn’t believe in sex, or whatever, then do your fertility treatment thing.</p>
<p>& christ, why is everyone assuming that sex in college is fueled by alcohol & happens between strangers? how about you’re on your own for the first time in your life, you’ve met someone u like/love, & u just WANT TO HAVE SEX?? can’t the answer be that simple?! plus, it’s nobody else’s business anyways.</p>
<p>there’s nothing wrong with safe sex, people need to stop treating it like it’s a bad thing</p>
<p>so i’m in the “why not?” crowd</p>