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“Most people would die sooner than think; in fact, they do.” - Bertrand Russell

After listening to one of the most infurating statements I have heard in more than a decade I decided do some research via informal discussions and some reading. To be fair I was as irritated over the statement as I was for why it was made in the first place, but that’s irrelevant for this entry, I suppose. Just know that it upset me enough that I ended up spending countless hours over the last week double-checking data before sitting down to write this article.

It isn’t because I questioned the incredulous nature of the statement - that was never in question - I did it because of the alarming message hidden within the statement itself. As it turns out the seriousness of the problem I recognized is much deeper than just one person’s seriously deficient understanding about the real world. No, instead, it seems there is a specific ignorance relating to a very real life or death situation that is systemic to Generation Y.

I am dumbfounded about how we have made a long-lived national issue out of reproductive rights; yet we have really forgotten in the few short years between the emergence of Generation X and Generation Y that there are worse things that can happen to a person as a result of sexual activity than an unwanted pregnancy [1]. What the hell has happened in this country? Have we seriously propagated an ignorance that will cause our youth to kill themselves and others before they can comprehend the magnitude of the consequences of a compounding negligence?

I need to make something excruciatingly clear to every reader of this blog: wanting something to be true, even believing something to be true, does not make it true. If you are going to assume anything - you need to assume not that there is monogamy within your relationship but that there is not.

This isn’t about trust or the lack thereof. This is about health - yours and your partner’s. Care enough to know the facts because not knowing can end up causing you to unwittingly commit murder or suicide.

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