Distributing contraceptives to middle schoolers might slow down the teen pregnancy rate, but it can’t stop the out-of-control spread of sexually transmitted diseases.

In fact, out-of-wedlock “safe sex”—an oxymoron if ever there was one—has made matters much worse, as Mary Eberstadt notes in her book Home-Alone America: “The very contraceptives that have made the teenage birth rate go down have also made casual sex easier than ever, thus making the std rate simultaneously rocket up.”

The Centers for Disease Control now estimates that “approximately 19 million new infections occur each year, almost half of them among young people ages 15 to 24.“ The most commonly reported std is chlamydia, with more than 1 million reported cases in 2006—an all-time high.

What makes this tragedy more than merely sad—what makes it truly outrageous and angering—is the fact that these students are, at least in part, acting in ignorance, having been deliberately fed false information that obscures how destructive their behavior really is.

Unscrupulous educators—people more committed to the politically correct dogma of “sexual freedom” than to protecting our youth—are suppressing solid, scientific evidence—damning facts that might endanger their own perverse social agendas.

If you are a young person contemplating or having premarital sex, you desperately need the whole truth. If you are an adult who has teens or children off at college, or with friends who have, you owe it to those young people to get these truths into their hands. Read the Trumpet article “Sexual Health: What Every High School and College Student Needs to Know” for information on this subject.