Casual sex

I am not one for realtionships but I am definatly ready to have sex. I understand the risks that come with casual sex, and im wondering if a condom will prevent all stds (if used properly) or if they just decrease risks.

why would you want just casual sex? woldnt you want to be in love with someone first trust me it will make it so much better!

Um they don't protect you from ALL std's they just lower the risks a little bit. If you don't know that before sex you shouldn't be having sex anyway. My boyfriend and I are both virgins. He is 21 and I am 20 there's nothing wrong with it.

I dont think you understand. I am not looking for a relationship, I have gone down that route before, I am not bitter in the least I am just not happy in a relationship. theres nothing wrong with waiting either, but I know its not for me

Hmmm well...I cant say don`t wait because thats your decision...but yes itz true aint nothing wrong wit waitng...but just remember when you are having casual sex..make sure its known that thats all you want...and nothing more...cause it may build into somthing you dont want...

Actually... condoms are good but not a 100% guarantee against STDs

According to a 2004 bulletin from the World Health Organization and a 2001 report by the US National Institutes of Health, individual studies found condoms reduced the risks for: genital herpes by 30-92 percent in women, less in men (no figure given); gonorrhea by 49-75 percent in men, 39-62 percent in women; chlamydia by 26-90 percent in women, 33 percent in men; pelvic inflammatory disease (resulting from gonorrhea and chlamydia infection) by 55 percent; trichomoniasis by 30 percent in women, with significant reduction in men (no figure given); syphilis by 40-60 percent in both sexes; and genital ulcers (chancroid) by 18-23 percent.

There is no evidence that condoms prevent human papilloma viruses (HPV), which can cause cervical cancer but are usually killed by the immune system. Studies have shown condoms reduced risk of genital warts caused by HPV by 30 percent in women and about 40 percent in men, and they reduce the risk of cervical cancer in women.

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So what do you think you are going to get out of having casual sex? Besides maybe an unwanted pregnancy or some type of STD? Its obvious you dont know the consequences that can result from having sex. Girls tend to get emotionally attached to someone she has sex with. Its just how we are wired, but guys on the other hand can have many sexual partners without getting their emotions involved.

Truth #1: Casual sex impairs the ability to establish a lasting emotional bond. When natural human emotional responses are repeatedly denied, the person is hardened and the capacity to bond is weakened. Human beings respond to sexual intercourse by bonding, and they are driven to make that bond permanent and exclusive. Dr. Joy reported on the work of a researcher at a hospital clinic in Detroit who worked with 1,000 couples for 10 years studying their marital problems and recording their sexual histories. He concluded that sexual intercourse is constructive only within marriage. His evidence is overwhelming that one or the other of the partners in casual sex (usually the girl or woman) experiences immediate emotional pain even in the absence of acknowledged injury. The experience of casual sexual intimacy produces memories that can contaminate future relationships and create lingering problems later on, when the person eventually marries. When the married couples in his research had problems, he said, "The pain in the marriages was rooted in their promiscuity."

Truth #2: Casual sex leaves young people alone and lonely. Counselors tell us that sexually active girls are three times more likely to be depressed than their abstinent peers. Among the boys, sexually active ones are depressed twice as often. Sexually active teens are more likely than their abstinent counterparts to attempt suicide (girls 15 percent to five percent and boys six percent to one percent). But the most telling fact is that the majority of teenagers, 72 percent of the girls and 55 percent of the boys, acknowledge regret over early sexual activity and wish that they had waited longer to have sex. So much for the cultural mantra that "sex is no big deal!"
On another front, replacing marriage with casual sex is especially harmful to young women's long-term well-being.

Truth #3: The so-called "sexual revolution" has produced dramatic increases in sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Sadly, 65 percent of STDs appear in young people under age 25, and fully 20 percent of all AIDS cases are among college-aged young people. In the U.S., over 15 million new cases of STDs appear annually, a number that is triple what it was six years ago. Having three or more sexual partners in a lifetime increases a woman's odds of cervical cancer by 15 times.

A young person's choices about sex reveal his or her attitudes about others. Is sexual activity merely fun and games? No. Treating sex as something casual can never actually make it a casual matter.

Sexual intercourse can be an intense and pleasurable experience, but it is more - much more. Sexual intimacy triggers the strongest and deepest, most exhilarating passions in life. Its purpose is to bond a man and a woman into "one flesh" in the deepest intimacy that human beings can share. Further, sex is designed to both create life and build a strong relationship to protect and provide for that life.

Young people need to choose carefully. Sex can never be free; choices always have consequences. We cannot expect young people to act responsibly when adults - whose thinking is sometimes clouded by their rationalization of their own hurtful and toxic sexual experimentation - are irresponsible by not providing the best possible information to encourage self-discipline and self-control, which are the surest keys to young peoples' long-term well-being.

it is a lot of things that can be done before you actually have I intercourse. get to know them as a friend first