It's a topic that people don't seem to like to talk about. It is rarely mentioned in our local media. But Oklahoma City has for at least the last 15 years consistently scored very poorly in the area of sexual health. At one time official CDC rankings placed us as the city with the 9th highest STD rate in the country. Although I wasn't able to find that data by Googling anymore, I did find this article from Men's Health:

Safe Sex In Your City? - Men's Health


In it, we received a score of "F" and are listed as the city with the 11th highest STD ranking, just above San Fransisco. What is scary about that is that these are unadjusted figures... so we have higher rates than most places that are far larger cities than us. And there are certainly cities with far more singles than us, such as Austin.

The reason I'm posting about this is because, as I said at the beginning of this post, our ranking has been horrible for as long as I can remember and nothing seems to be being done by anyone to change it.

So what's the answer?