Teenagers must be given the correct information to help them realize that saving themselves sexually until marriage is the only sure way to stay healthy. The medical reasons for teens' high susceptibility to STDs relates specifically to females. As a girl reaches her 20s or has a baby, this lining is replaced with a tougher, more resistant lining. This will produce a more liquid mucus which also grows bacteria and viruses very well. Teenagers do not always respond to antibiotic treatment for pelvic inflammatory disease, and occasionally such teenage girls require a hysterectomy.
Infertility is an increasing problem in our society.
Teenagers are also more likely to develop precancerous growths as a result of HPV infection than adults. These precancerous growths in teenagers are also more likely to develop into invasive cancer than in adults. Apart from the increased risk from STDs in teens, teen-age pregnancy is also at unprecedented levels. Abortion is not a healthy procedure for anyone to undergo, but this is especially true for a teenager. Not getting pregnant to begin with is far better.