When it's time to talk about the birds and bees, it's all Fs for BYU, at least according to one survey.

Brigham Young University ranked last of the 100 schools surveyed for the Trojan Sexual Health Report Card, released earlier this week. The University of Utah finished two spots better, at 98. Yale, the only school to receive straight As in the report, topped the list.

The survey examined several criteria, including the schools' Web sites, condom availability, HIV and sexually transferred infection screening, sexual assault services, advice columns, lectures and outreach programs.

BYU earned a failing grade in each category and the U's only passing mark in the survey was a D for lectures and outreach programs.

"In our research, we put ourselves in the place of a student seeking information about sexual health, and we found it difficult to find this type of information at a range of colleges throughout the country," the report stated.

But BYU officials said the survey only took into account information offered on the school's Web site.

"It's not a survey that looks at the infection rate or the abortion rate," said Terry Olson, a professor in BYU's School of Family Life. "It's a survey on whether or not information is being made available on universities' Web sites."

Spokeswoman Carri Jenkins said BYU students aren't looking for safe sex information at the university because students accept the school's honor code, which promotes abstinence before marriage, when they enroll.

"Our students come to BYU expecting the type of environment that we have here," she said. "They want to uphold the honor code. Before they ever come to BYU they have made a decision."

By placing BYU in the survey's cellar, Jenkins said that Trojan missed the point of its own report.

"It appears the reason they were surveying schools was to look at the prevention of unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections," she said. "If that truly is the company's objective, BYU should have been much, much better."

STI rates in Utah are significantly lower than the national average, according to the most recent figures from the Utah Department of Health.

In 2004, Utah's gonorrhea rates ranked 43rd in the nation. Utah reported a gonorrhea rate of 28.8 cases per 100,000 population compared to the national rate of 113.5 cases per 100,000 population, according to the department.

The state ranked 46th in chlamydia reports, with a rate of 164.0 cases per 100,000 persons. The national rate for chlamydia in 2004 was 319.6 cases per 100,000 persons.

"We're so low in those rates, to compare us to the rest of the country on whether or not we're providing information about condoms is ludicrous," Olson said.

Aaron Falk can be reached at 344-2559 or afalk@heraldextra.com.

This story appeared in The Daily Herald on page D1.