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Columbia University had the highest "sexual GPA." Credit: Getty Images
Well, here's some good news: A growing number of campus health and wellness offices, along with sex experts, want to help ease your nightmares and are taking steps to make sexual health a priority at their schools. And guess who's helping them help your kids stay STD free?
Trojan. The condom giant just released its fifth annual Sexual Health Report Card, which looked at 141 colleges and ranked them according to the quality and accessibility of their sexual health resources. The report zeroes in on 12 categories ranging from contraceptive availability and STD testing to sexual assault programs, according to a news release. Each school was given a "GPA" based on its average in the areas, with 4.0, naturally, being the highest possible rating.
Columbia University in New York City topped the honor roll with a 3.70, distinguishing itself with Go Ask Alice, a comprehensive website that allows students to submit questions anonymously. Current topics span the health scope: "Keeping the flow with a condom," "Numbing lube safety for anal sex" and "Quick and healthy bag lunches."
Michigan State was ranked second with a 3.61, followed by Ohio State University. Also making the honor roll: University of Michigan, 3.55; Brown University, 3.50; University of Iowa, 3.49; University of Oregon, 3.44; Princeton University, 3.41; Rutgers, 3,38; University of Minnesota, 3.37; Western Michigan University, 3.28; Cornell, 3.22; and Yale, 3.17.
The idea is that by making students aware of their school's sex health status, it will instigate change, Trojan representative Bruce Tetreault, says in the release. The company decided to launch the study years ago in response to the rising rate of sexually-transmitted diseases (STDs) among young people, he adds.
According to the latest Center for Disease Control and Prevention report in 2008, STDs are a growing public health challenge in the United States. The CDC estimates there are approximately 19 million new STD infections each year -- almost half of them among young people ages 15 to 24. The cost of STDs to the U.S. health care system is estimated to be as much as $15.9 billion annually.
"We found the numbers unacceptable, and wanted to make students aware of how their schools ranked in terms of sexual health," Tetreault says in the release.
Bert Sperling, owner of the research firm that partnered with Trojan to administer the survey, says all schools have shown improvement in the past five years, and that students at Arizona State and Northwestern University, among others, have taken action in an effort to up their schools' rankings.
Although the ratings only cover a small portion of the approximately 2,000 4-year institutions in the United States, Sperling says 30 percent of American undergraduates attend the colleges studied.
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ReaderComments (Page 2 of 2)
10-08-2010 @ 2:17PM
fdee said...What's so SEXUALLY HEALTHY about fornicating with other immoral students? She can still get pregnant, get STDS, AIDS. Will she have an abortion then to destroy her child? The only healthy and moral sex is waiting till marriage. It's a mortal sin to be a fornicator and if you die in even one of those sins unforgiven you will go to hell.
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12-23-2010 @ 12:02AM
Nightshade said...Get off your moral high-horse. If it's people like you that will be in heaven, then I have no desire to go there. I'll take my premarital sex and be happy. It's great that some people are actually concerned with the health of their children and not obsessed with destructive dogma.
10-08-2010 @ 2:42PM
Katrina said...I'm just going to put this out there because no one else will.
The most common time for girls/women to be raped is when they live at home with sexually abusive parents or while attending college. To base this article for checking how sexually safe schools are is to say you don't care what happens to college students sexually. When a female or male is raped help has to be available quickly. STD testing, emergency contraceptives, rape kits, and counseling will not happen without a program in place before the rape happens. Rape on campus is not rare. It is hidden, ignored, or the victim has no way to come forward about it.
Many people who are posting responses are so certain that sex ed causes promiscuity that they don't realize that sex ed also involves teaching students on campus the meaning of sexual harassment, sexual assault, and rape. I would be relieved to see that a school my daughter or son picked had a comprehensive sex program that scored a high GPA in this study. Sex needs to be taught in an educational way since sex is a part of a healthy adult relationship that every person has a right to experience safely.
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10-08-2010 @ 3:23PM
Suprsavr-Nazgrel said...So many posts talking about the fundamental, one-size-fits-all, god-approved, one-man-one-woman strategy of human sexuality. If you really want to live in a society that enforces that, you should really check out some of the more conservative Islamic countries where sharia is enforced. Enforcing one-man-one-woman strategies of human sexuality on entire societies puts tons and tons of people into marital HELL.
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10-08-2010 @ 6:32PM
PFD said...So this is what parents spend tens of thousands of dollars for?
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