educators of how to use them.Some high schools in large cities do distribute condoms to their students, just as many colleges all over the United States. Yet this should not be limited solely to college students and inner city high school students. It is most likely that there are sexually active teens in every high school, bringing risks to all of them. Dr. Joe. McIlhaney, founder and president of the Medical Institute for Sexual Health in Austin, TX says "adolescents and young adults are at the highest risk for contracting STDs" (McIlhaney 24). This mostly stems from the promiscuity of teens today. An article based from an NBC News report contained results from a survey conducted last spring of 99. This survey was based on interviews with 400 teens between the ages of fifteen and seventeen. It found that a good portion of teenagers sexually active in America have had three or more sexual partners (Scripps 2). Moreover "nearly 20 percent of students have had at least four sexual partners by the time they reach the 12th grade" (McIlhaney 24). With that in mind, high school should be the first source for condoms, pharmacies and hospitals should come second, because promiscuous teens seem to be roaming high school hallways more often.Public high schools distributing contraceptives might be thought of as too liberal for our time, revealing those who would oppose as conservative. And many conservatives do in fact say that already the increased access to condoms and sex education has "stimulated more sexual activity among teenagers" (Mauldon 1). Even ArchBishop (now Cardinal) Bernardin believes that offering contraceptives to teenagers increases the chances that they will be sexually active without using contraception (1-2). Neither of these opinions are true. As a matter of fact, The American Prospect magazine states that "no one has yet been able to show that liberalized contraceptive policies increase teenage sexual activity...
