The Sexual Time Bomb
May, 1991
The first time we became aware of the statistical time bomb, it was at the expense of teenage lust. Somewhere we read that "every 12.6 seconds, a teenager gets a sexually transmitted disease."Same teenager? We wondered. Maybe the horny dude should give it a rest.We did a few calculations. There are 31,536,000 seconds in a year, 525,600 minutes. So if every 12.6 seconds a teenager gets an S.T.D., that adds up to 2,500,000 cases of venereal disease a year---among teenagers.We tried to ca...
