Facts about sexually

transmitted diseases

TEODORA KOMAZEC
ANDRIJANA KURTOVIC
EKSA STANISAVLJEVIC
 1. You can get STDs in
your eyes. YOUR EYES!!
 Gonorrhea and Chlamydia can
infect your under eye tissue if
semen gets in your eye or if you
touch your eyes with traces of the
disease on your hands. Because
these two STIs are in body fluids,
you can also get Gonorrhea and
Chlamydia in your throat, mouth,
and anus. And you thought pink
eye was bad.
 2. Condoms don’t always protect
against HPV

 ASHA informs us that latex

condoms can only reduce the risk
of HPV transmission, they can’t
completely guard against it since
HPV is spread through skin-to-skin
contact. This means that even if
you always use a condom, you
could still contract HPV. In other
words: get all three rounds of
your HPV vaccine.
 According to the 
Center for Disease Control,
 “new estimates show that there are
about 20 million new infections in
the United States each year, costing
the American healthcare system
nearly $16 billion in direct medical
costs alone.”16 billion dollars! Think
of the money you could save the
county by wearing a condom and 
getting tested. Consider it a
patriotic duty.
 3…because A LOT of people are
infected

 ASHA reports that “one in two sexually

active persons will contract an STD/STI
by age 25.” Even more shocking is
ASHA’s statistic on herpes, stating that
"More than 50 percent of the adult
population in the United States has
oral herpes (commonly called cold
sores or fever blisters). Most people
contract oral herpes when they are
children by receiving a kiss from a
friend or relative.”
 4. You can’t get STDs from a toilet
seat.

 Contrary to popular belief, 

you cannot get pregnant or get an
STD from a toilet seat
 because sexually transmitted
diseases cannot live long enough
on a toilet seat (or outside of a
body, for that matter) to be
transmittable.
 5. You can get HIV from your tattoo
or piercing

 Blood-borne infections such as

HIV and certain strains of
hepatitis can be transferred if
equipment is not property
sterilized. Make sure that your
piercing or tattoo parlor
discards instruments used to
pierce or cut skin after they are
used.
Moral of the story? Use a condom…you probably
don’t want to get eye gonorrhea!!!
THANK YOU FOR YOUR
ATTENTION!