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There’s a little-known sexually transmitted disease (STD) that’s on the rise – and could soon become a very big problem.
Sexual health experts warn that Mycoplasma genitalium (MG) has the potential to become a drug-resistant superbug within a matter of years.
Research by the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH) found that over 70 percent of sexual health experts said that if current practices do not change, MG will become resistant to first and second line antibiotics within a decade. Left unchecked, they say this could result in thousands of women each year at increased risk of infertility from pelvic inflammatory disease caused by MG.
As a result of these daunting statistics, BASHH have just released draft guidelines to help the public and health services deal with this impending crisis.
“MG is rapidly becoming the new superbug: it’s increasingly resistant to most of the antibiotics we use to treat chlamydia and changes its pattern of resistance during treatment so it's like trying to hit a moving target,” Dr Peter Greenhouse, sexual health consultant from the UK, said in a statement.
(Score: 5, Funny) by DannyB on Monday July 16 2018, @07:03PM (37 children)
From TFA
But they seem sure it causes female infertility.
And of course, to prevent the disease which causes infertility . . . use a condom!
Did you see the oxymoron there? Use a condom to prevent infertility.
What do people do who might want to have fertility?
The only form of protection might be a wedding ring.
Or the outmoded concept of being faithful.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 3, Funny) by bd on Monday July 16 2018, @07:12PM
If we are more open about D&D campaigns we should be safe regardless.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday July 16 2018, @07:16PM (27 children)
Being faithful isn't outmoded. I've only ever had two partners, my ex and my current lover, and only ever wanted one.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2, Disagree) by edIII on Monday July 16 2018, @07:38PM (19 children)
It's sure as fuck though outgunned. While you're sitting there on your moral highground, the rest of the people are fucking like rabbits :)
If anything, being moral in general has become outmoded.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Monday July 16 2018, @07:53PM
A set of moral values applied to self is always ethical. You are exercising your freedom. Of course if the side effects are huge, for example suicide, then you generate consequences for others and you may not being ethical.
Account abandoned.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday July 16 2018, @07:55PM (6 children)
That one says it right there.
People used to treat each other with some level of respect and humanity. There once was some sense of restraint.
Now everyone just wants to get theirs. Can I get rich creating a new junk bond while destroying the real estate market and causing a recession? Okay, that sounds like a plan! Can I hike the price of life saving drugs by thousands of percent -- to enrich myself? Okay, great! Can I pollute the land, the air, the water without concern for what I'm doing to the lives of actual human beings, while making a big profit? Go for it! As the BMW driver zooms down the carpool lane in his empty car unconcerned about everyone else waiting in the other lanes.
And the UN Human Rights Council should be looking in to Google's redesign of the tabs in the Chrome browser!
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 5, Touché) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday July 16 2018, @08:31PM (2 children)
Yeah, because things were so much better back in the age of the Inquisition, right?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday July 17 2018, @01:23PM (1 child)
Your comment and other replies make me consider that maybe I have a sheltered outlook. Or falsely inflated expectation of humanity.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @05:32PM
Those two things go together. While the good people tend to outweigh the bad there are still plenty of shitty people that range from selfish to evil. There are more than most people expect, humanity as a whole is still in its infancy with large swaths of people throwing baby tantrums. QED US politics today. I'd say the safest attitude is cynical optimist. Expect the worst and hope for the best, then wait until you feel more sure about which one any given person is.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 16 2018, @09:10PM (2 children)
Respect and restraint in public, perhaps, but people also used to beat their spouses and children behind closed doors and think nothing of it. Some of those people relied on documentation, purportedly handed down by their gods, that encouraged the beating of spouses and children as perfectly moral behavior. Some probably still do.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 16 2018, @10:23PM
Supposedly they still do and it is quite as common as it has ever been. To suggest otherwise can lead to great derision from the internet, shunning and outright violence and death threats.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @01:23AM
> Some probably still do.
A friend from high school became a forensic psychologist, based near rural areas in one of the southern US states. His stories of abused kids are horrible.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Thexalon on Monday July 16 2018, @08:10PM
There are paths to monogamy that have nothing to do with morality, like:
- Some people are happy with the partner they have and genuinely have no desire for another one.
- Some people are unable to attract more than one partner. Think not-quite-incel.
- Some people want to avoid the complications of having another partner. Think about how much work one partnership can be, now double and triple that, and see if you're still thinking more is better.
- In committed relationships, you have birth control and disease-prevention options that you don't when sleeping around.
Libido is on a spectrum. One the one extreme you have the people that will bang anything that moves, anytime, anywhere. On the other extreme you have asexual people. Most are somewhere in between.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by jdavidb on Monday July 16 2018, @08:13PM (7 children)
Actually the numbers show that married people are having sex more than single people.
ⓋⒶ☮✝🕊 Secession is the right of all sentient beings
(Score: 2) by edIII on Monday July 16 2018, @08:24PM
Surely, that must be a sign of the apocalypse?
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 4, Funny) by bob_super on Monday July 16 2018, @09:00PM
> Actually the numbers show that married people are having sex more than single people.
Obviously, they forgot to poll (two L) my wife.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by FatPhil on Monday July 16 2018, @11:25PM
I feel that the singles quite cleanly split into the haves and the have nots.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by legont on Tuesday July 17 2018, @12:57AM (3 children)
Even more, people had more sex before the sexual revolution; in marriage, off course.
Hippies took it all and destroyed. No wonder - revolutions are always like this.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @04:11PM (2 children)
Don't worry. They recanted the sexual revolution, and now the ctrl-left has gone sex-negative.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @05:47PM (1 child)
Ahem, that would be the alt-right that is sex negative. The adjectives "incel" and "misogynist nerd" didn't just pop out of nowhere ;)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @07:31PM
They're both sex-negative. The right wingers in the USA have always had a puritan streak. These are the "wedding ring = effective STD protection" crowd. What is more interesting to me is how the left wingers in the USA have turned from sex-positive to sex-negative.
Incel originated as a self-identified label, and has been around there on the internet for at least 15 years I'd say. Recently, however, it turned into a homophobic attack on men who have sex with men instead of women. It may seem difficult to reconcile this with sex-negativity, but that's how it reveals itself as plain old misandry. Men who ask women on dates are called sexual harassers.
Misogynerd is what you call the nearest available man when it turns out that programming requires a basic comprehension of middle school algebra.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 16 2018, @11:19PM (1 child)
Only those trying to hasten the inevitable Idiocracy.
My skin in the game: same partner, no straying, for -20 years, and childfree (i.e. by choice).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 16 2018, @11:23PM
If you have a hi IQ you are also contributing to Idiocracy by not pumping out jenius babies.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 16 2018, @07:56PM (6 children)
Which one? Does the other one know?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday July 16 2018, @08:28PM (5 children)
Considering my ex and I have been separated over 8 years, I don't think it's relevant. Really, from what I understand this is a common thing among gay women; the worst that can be said about most of us is either we're serial monogamists at the extreme end, or we're hardcore single-target UHaulers and mourn forever when a relationship ends.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 16 2018, @08:54PM
Way.to.ruin.a.joke.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 16 2018, @10:26PM (3 children)
Except when two gay women decide to have a baby together and one abandons the other after 3 weeks
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday July 17 2018, @04:24AM (2 children)
You, er, seem to be missing something rather fundamental about biology here...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @02:57PM
adoption you twat
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @04:06PM
Sperm donor clinics
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 16 2018, @08:02PM (1 child)
Oxymoron? How about omnimoron? (that would be you)
Infertility is one side effect of MG that impacts women. Your dick festering, getting covered in scar tissue and oozing puss is another side effect. That will definitely affect you, and may affect women (if they encounter it). BTW, not getting laid because your dick looks like it's going to fall off is a condition that will limit your "fertility" even if it's not technically classified as infertility.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday July 16 2018, @11:19PM
RoKu suggests movie: Death In The Terminal.
I say: try using the GUI.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 16 2018, @09:12PM
Effectiveness of a wedding ring for STD protection is likely to be on par with the rhythm method.
(Score: 4, Funny) by c0lo on Tuesday July 17 2018, @12:01AM
You crazy? It won't go through even when flaccid and shrank by the application of freezing water!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @03:59AM (3 children)
"Did you see the oxymoron there?"
No, because there is no oxymoron.
The correct descriptive term would be : paradox.
I detest when imbeciles like you try to use words they don't understand in order to attempt to impress people.
You need to hang yourself tonight, to atone for your sins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @02:55PM (2 children)
how much petty hair-splitting can one engage in, damn
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @06:04PM (1 child)
Try proper capitalization and punctuation! Nyah.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @08:10PM
no u