re: United States Has Highest STD Rate

Connected1 — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 08:21:41 GMT

I'm looking for a link to a study I read (in paper, maybe a magazine, health journal, psychology dept. publishing,???) around 1989 regarding key factors what makes a person more likely to contract an STDs when exposed. I read it in hard copy, and would like to find it on the web now.

The study was comparing two groups, both of which had been exposed to an STD, one who'd contracted the disease and the other group who hadn't. I think it was AIDS (it would have been listed as AIDS, not HIV, I believe because of the year.

The results indicated that the single most dominate similarity in each group was their attitude toward sex being "healthy" or "unhealthy". This factor seemed to be primarily influenced by the early and formative sexual experiences. Attitudes of their parents towards sexuality, especially directed towards them, was a factor. Unfortunately the too common contributor to what ideas and attitudes were classified as unhealthy, came from those who'd experienced sexual abuse as a child or young person.

Anyway, if anyone ever finds this study or a similar one, PLEASE let me know.