“Gonorrhea Is Winning” eh?

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Not if you keep it in your fucking pants, boys.

Chastity, monogamy, and traditional marriage were part of the reason why we were so successful in fighting VD in modern society.  Now that the traditional forms are breaking down, not so much anymore.  Sure, antibiotics are overused and abused and one of these days that’s going to cause us a tonload of grief (or already is causing it — can you spell MRSA?).  But a significant section of the population spending their evenings and weekends screwing everything in sight certainly doesn’t help mitigate that.  I mean, you don’t get VD from toilet seats or holding hands, and you rarely if ever get it from your monogamous partner (married or not, and hetero or not). 

On the other hand, if you’re not monogamous, even if you use protection (condoms don’t always work), basically every time you hop into the sack with a cute little bit (or even a not so cute not so little bit), you’re just tossing the dice on Darwin’s crap table.  Watch out for those snake eyes.

I pity the next few generations that will have to cope with this.  Especially since the gummint is so fixated on destroying our health care system and its supports, like medical research and development.  And especially since society at large doesn’t seem to care about reining in some of its worst excesses.  Gotta be free to be you and me, I guess, even if somebody else ends up getting hurt. Perhaps the real takeaway from this is that the high availability of antibiotics, while certainly miraculous, should never have been mistaken for a license to screw everything in sight because a shot or a pill could fix things when you fucked up.