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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 Anonymous Coward on Monday July 16 2018, @09:15PM (11 children)
Preliminary research shows male-to-female transmission is rare, leaving the other five millennial genders at risk.
(Score: 1, Troll) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday July 17 2018, @04:27AM (6 children)
No, no, no, if you wanna make fun of them you have to say 47 genders, and make some reference to believing you're a piece of military hardware. Because that's totes how trans people work. I've met a bunch and every single one of them is a different gender and comes with a 4,000+-pound carrying capacity and at least half a dozen hardpoints for guided missiles. ...idiot.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @02:50PM (1 child)
"Because that's totes how trans people work."
What does being two-spirit or genderqueer have to do with being trans?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @04:18PM
If only we had a large anthropological library available to us at our fingertips so that we could research various cultural traditions such as two-spirit folks. It would be incredible if we could also look up the current theory on the neurological origins of brain sex and the reasons the brain might develop to be a different sex from the reproductive system. With those two things, we might be able to go beyond your question and synthesize some sociological theories.
Alas.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @05:21PM (3 children)
Now c'mon, I think it is fair to make fun of a list like https://ageofshitlords.com/list-of-all-tumblr-genders-so-far [ageofshitlords.com] where you can find "hippy" being changed to some kind of gender?
and the proper rejoinder would be to point out that the first search result was a website called "age of shitlords".
So are some gender titles ridiculous and just descriptors of personality types? Yes.
Are assholes that have nothing better to do than make fun of people exploring themselves Shit Lords? Fuck no. They are just shit, lords of nothing :)
Don't get too serious with these dumbasses and enjoy the joke. Is the joker an asshole shitbird? I didn't see The Maniacal Bastard log in, so there is a chance it was just a good opportunity to make a joke out of a hot topic. There are many gender descriptions I will accept, but Earthgender simply describes a hippy and/or fetish like getting turned on by doing it in a forest and I simply can't take that seriously as a human gender.
I can get behind all of these https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2016/07/explained-the-33-gender-identities-recognised-by-the-2016-australian-sex-survey/ [lifehacker.com.au] although I find quite a few of them redundant (transgender man, trans man, female to male) so I'd say it should get reduced to 10-20 or whatever removes the identical genders with different labels.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday July 17 2018, @05:53PM (2 children)
Not going to lie, I'm cisgender and *really* don't get this stuff on a personal level. The simple gender binary may be wrong, but a spectrum still has two ends, and what we seem to see here is "nature "intends" people to be one or the other, but nature fucks up, so we get people who don't match or people somewhere in between sometimes."
NOT "by the way your environmentalist or political views are gender identity now." That's a total non-sequitur.
Does this make me cis-dyke scum? Maybe. Do I care? Newp.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @06:10PM (1 child)
Well then how could you not find the joke somewhat amusing? Just cause it played on a sensitive topic? If a stand up comedian had said it would you have laughed? Are you just too used to the assholes around here?
Not my joke but I did find it funny because it wasn't overly antagonistic like the attack helicopter people.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday July 18 2018, @03:40AM
Yes, definitely too used to the assholes on here. There's not even 10 of them but they make this place such a complete fucking cesspool.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @10:41AM (3 children)
Millennials are hardly at risk at all. You try having sex with your parents sleeping in the next room.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @02:45PM (2 children)
From the surveillance videos I have seen, Mom or Dad (we're mostly single parent households in the US) hears their son/daughter masturbating, enters their room, has a calm chat with the embarrassed teen, and then starts oral sex on them, possibly ending in full anal.
Is PornHub not giving me an accurate societal picture?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 18 2018, @01:55PM (1 child)
Definitely not accurate.
In real life, the Millennial 'teen' is at least 20 and anything up to 35.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 18 2018, @06:20PM
Now you tell me! Well, there goes my dream to start a family.