
Charlie Sheen’s announcement that he is HIV positive has created a huge uproar as critics attack him from every direction, but the truth is that Charlie Sheen is simply a reflection of our society as a whole. You see, the truth is that it isn’t just big Hollywood stars that are engaged in insanely risky sexual behavior. According to the CDC, there are
110 million cases of sexually-transmitted disease in America today, and another
20 million STD cases are added to that total every year. The United States has the highest STD infection rate
in the entire industrialized world, and
more than half of all Americans will have a sexually-transmitted disease at some point during their lives. Approximately
one out of every four teen girls in the U.S. has at least one sexually transmitted disease, and our nation spends $16,000,000,000 a year treating STDs. So go ahead and point a finger at Charlie Sheen if you want, but just remember that he is only a very small part of a raging national epidemic.
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