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By Audra Stephen

... Not really, it promotes promiscuity

If you already don’t know, free condoms are available for students at the Health and Wellness Center.
In the bathrooms around campus are machines that anyone can pay to get their condoms without embarrassment.
It seems like the university is more concerned with the sexual activities of the student body rather than providing a good quality education.
The university should help promote abstinence instead of sex.
College is a place for learning not to exploit the sexual activities among students.
After all, the school seems to be saying, “Hey, come to our school, get an education and, oh by the way help yourself to some condoms.”
What’s wrong with going to the drugstore around the corner to purchase condoms?
I don’t think that the university should be responsible for how inappropriately students act. I don’t have a problem with anyone having sex, it’s their business. But I don’t approve of the university supporting that.
Chantel Willis, the front desk supervisor at the Health and Wellness Center, says that students can help themselves to the basket of condoms. She also says that more than half of the students who come to the clinic get what they need.
Andrea Schmidt, the nurse practitioner and director at the Health and Wellness Center, says that she and the rest of the staff do not judge anyone who comes in to take condoms. She and the center help students and inform them about the safe sex practices and how to use a condom correctly. The center encourages students to maintain a healthy lifestyle.
A university is meant for educating people on important things about their future not the future of their sex lives.
OK, so condoms do help protect people against HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases. But why should students have to depend on the school to help them out in a pinch?
The bottom line is that Cleveland State should not be responsible for the actions of others.
Don’t get me wrong, I think that having a health center on campus is a good idea. But why should it support students who have sex?
Personally people should not have sex unless they are in a mature, committed relationship.
Having the condoms on campus is just not a good idea. It’s targeted to the young college kids who may be so naive and curious that they will have sex somewhere on campus.
Get this; two in three people with sexually transmitted infections (STI) become infected before the age of 25, according to www.femalehealth.com.
Also, half of all new HIV infections occur in individuals under 25 years of age.
About 63 percent of all sexually transmitted disease (STD) cases occur among the same age group, according to www.leaderu.com.
According to The U.S National Center for Education Statistics, there are 14.9 million college students in the United States.
These students are shown to have high levels of unprotected sexual intercourse with many partners.
College graduates at this age should be getting ready to move on with their careers.

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