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posted by Snow on Thursday August 30 2018, @12:53AM   Printer-friendly
from the personal-Vietnam dept.

Rates of three STDs in US reach record high, CDC says

Rates of syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia have climbed for the fourth consecutive year in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Tuesday at the National STD Prevention Conference in Washington. Last year, nearly 2.3 million US cases of these sexually transmitted diseases were diagnosed, according to preliminary data.
That's the highest number ever reported nationwide, breaking the record set in 2016 by more than 200,000 cases, according to the CDC.

[...] In 2013, there were 1,752,285 total cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis diagnosed in the United States. That number grew to 1,811,850 in 2014; 1,945,746 in 2015; 2,094,682 in 2016; and 2,294,821 in 2017, according to the preliminary CDC data.

[...] The preliminary data suggest that more than 1.7 million cases of chlamydia were diagnosed in 2017, with about 45% -- 771,340 cases -- emerging among 15- to 24-year-old women and girls. Chlamydia, which remained the most common STD reported to the CDC, is caused by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis and easily transmitted during any form of sexual activity. If not treated, chlamydia can lead to pelvic inflammatory disease in women, which can cause permanent damage to the reproductive system. In men, the infection can spread to the tube that carries sperm from the testicles, causing pain and fever.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by jmorris on Thursday August 30 2018, @03:46AM (9 children)

    by jmorris (4844) on Thursday August 30 2018, @03:46AM (#728153)

    Well on the one hand, it is pretty obvious why cultures that emphasize monogamy and stable paired mating have evolutionary advantages. On the other the large number of diseases that propagate through sexual transmission demonstrate that even the most strict fail to achieve 100% compliance. If you had a large area where only virgins married and had sex for only a couple of generations, every STD would die out in that area. History doesn't record this ever happening.

    However, since one social policy is obviously better than the other, it is a question one probably should not ask as to why OUR culture now promotes and glorifies promiscuous "hookup" style sexual conduct and ridicules and places cultural and legal obstacles to the more sound policy. One most assuredly must not ask why this change was introduced and by who.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 30 2018, @04:04AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 30 2018, @04:04AM (#728156)

    Just do the math... When someone feels like banging someone else why not do it? QED.

    • (Score: 2, Interesting) by jmorris on Thursday August 30 2018, @04:55AM (2 children)

      by jmorris (4844) on Thursday August 30 2018, @04:55AM (#728168)

      The wages of sin is death. Those old goat herders that wrote that knew what they were on about, they had probably seen a few cases of crotch rot.

      Especially before modern antibiotics, a lot of those STDs were either fatal or seriously debilitating. And even now it makes little sense to expend tax money keeping most AIDs patients alive (rich people want to spend their own money, that is their right) and on top of that paying for PReP to avoid having them spread their plague instead of simply putting them into a leper colony type containment. For that matter, look at the cost of treating Hep C, $25-95K for an almost entirely preventable disease.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 30 2018, @05:36AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 30 2018, @05:36AM (#728176)

        My grandma, at about 80 years old, got hepatitis from the hospital. I believe it was a Kaiser hospital in San Francisco.

        Normally, they wouldn't bother to treat an old person with it. She was otherwise fine though, and it was their fault, so they cured her.

        Hospitals suck.

        Generally though, you are right. Cuba did exactly as you suggest for many years. They had an HIV quarantine colony. I'm guessing it was gay paradise for the ones who weren't too sick to enjoy it.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 30 2018, @11:59AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 30 2018, @11:59AM (#728231)

        "The wages of sin is death."
        They certainly weren't referring to STDs when that was written. You're doing a very bad job at scripture interpretation.

  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 30 2018, @09:26AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 30 2018, @09:26AM (#728210)

    One most assuredly must not ask why this change was introduced and by who.

    One must not mention jews when speaking of promoting promiscuous behavior (or any other ill like mass-migration, ...) among non-jews.

    That race is hell-bent on destroying everyone and everything on the planet to prove they are the chosen ones. Judaism really does need to die now.

    Quarantine that race and let them die. No business with them. Absolutely none. We can do this.

  • (Score: 4, Informative) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Thursday August 30 2018, @09:33AM (2 children)

    by GreatAuntAnesthesia (3275) on Thursday August 30 2018, @09:33AM (#728212) Journal

    No culture anywhere has ever had anywhere near "100% compliance". People are people no matter what social structure you raise them in, and people fuck.

    Your "better cultures" that "emphasize monogamy and stable paired mating" have just as much extramarital bed-hopping, drunken illicit boinking and heated teenage fumbling as any other, I can guarantee it. The only difference is, in one culture they talk about it, and in the other they pretend that it isn't happening. And pretending sex isn't happening / refusing to talk about it is just a recipe for ignorance (kids getting pregnant because they don't understand the consequences of what they are doing) and institutionalised abuse (*cough*catholicism*cough*)

    • (Score: 2) by jmorris on Thursday August 30 2018, @04:36PM (1 child)

      by jmorris (4844) on Thursday August 30 2018, @04:36PM (#728315)

      You are an idiot spreading harmful propaganda. I'm being generous in attributing to stupidity instead of malice since it is possible.

      Because laws and customs aren't ever enforced 100% is not a reason to abandon them. We have laws against murder but we don't throw our hands up and declare Chicago a free fire zone. Ok, some of us don't, apparently the leaders there have.

      When we had laws and customs against pre-marital sex it still occured, you are correct that far. However the historical record is very clear that, in an age without effective birth control, the pre-marital pregnancy rate among teens (and younger) was a small fraction of what it is in your "more enlightened" age. The number one, with a bullet, factor leading to children being raised as wards of the Welfare State, growing up into poverty, drugs, crime and a generally wasted life, is single motherhood.

      As I originally stated, there are two policy proposals under discussion here. Both have been tried multiple times throughout history and have known stable track records. One works better than the other one. You support the one with the record for failing every time. Explain why, if you can. Try appeals to reason instead of emotion because I'm utterly indifferent to your feelings.

      • (Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Monday September 03 2018, @11:12AM

        by GreatAuntAnesthesia (3275) on Monday September 03 2018, @11:12AM (#729820) Journal

        Your analogy is flawed. We have laws against murder because it is wrong. Consenting adults getting freaky isn't wrong. If unwanted pregnancy results, it's not because what they did was BADBADEVILNAUGHTYWICKED, it's because for some stupid reason they didn't use a condom / femidom / cap / pill / whatever other myriad options are available these days.

        Also, your rose-tinted "historical record" is too incomplete for any useful analysis. Dig a little deeper and you will see that it all happened but, as I already said, it GOT COVERED UP and therefore never went into the statistics. Someone I know doing some amateur genealogy uncovered all sorts of interesting things from history: Circa 1910 - A girl who got pregnant very young. She had the baby, and it was registered and raised by the baby's grandparents as her mother's sister. As far as the baby and EVEN THE STATE ever knew, her mother was her sister. Her other sisters were actually her aunts. It's only through old letters that the present generation ever found out.

        Late 1950s: Another woman got pregnant in her teens, didn't tell anyone about it for months. As soon as she started showing, she was quietly shipped off to "stay with relatives" hundreds of miles away. Had the baby, which went off for adoption before she could even hold it, and then the teenager returned to her family and not a word more was said by anyone for DECADES until the adopted child showed up searching for birth mother. And these are just the ones the present-day researcher was able to find. How many others were more successfully covered up?

        As for single parenthood... is it ideal? No. Raising kids while dealing with normal adult life at the same time is just too much work to reasonably dump on any one mortal, although many people do shoulder the burden heroically. 1 Is it better than people and their kids being forced by society to stay in loveless 2 or even abusive partnerships? Hell yes. Anything is better than that kind of life or that kind of childhood. That's where half of your poverty, drugs, crime and wasted lives come from: People who spend their adult lives trying to escape their awful childhoods, and people who never learned anything but how to resent and hate and be afraid, who never learned how to build and maintain normal loving relationships or how to have hope or aspirations for the future.

        You want to reduce single parenthood? Address the primary cause: Crappy / non-existent sex education leading to people becoming parents before they are ready. YES we should be making reasonable efforts to keep parents together when times get tough, but we should also recognise that in many cases there comes a point where it's better for everybody to just cut their losses and look elsewhere. Plenty of single parents re-marry and make a success of it second time around, which is a fine outcome.

        If you want a less confrontational / more common ground approach, how about this?
        We both want people to take more responsibility for their reproductive organs. I argue that the only way to do that is to give people the education and tools they need to do so. Of course when you've done that, you also have to give them the agency and freedom to do what they think is best with what they've been given. That's what responsibility IS.

        1 A close friend of mine had his father run off at an early age. His Mum raised him and his two brothers (one of them his twin), put all three through university all by herself, all while working a crappy job for not much money. As far as I know she never remarried or had any other romantic relationship, she had very little family support to fall back on, she was completely alone. All three sons are now happy and successful adults in engineering & scientific careers, all married, but only one of them showing any interest in parenthood. I believe the absent father tried to re-establish contact a few years back, and got a resounding "FUCK OFF" in triplicate.

        2 Some people might be able to maintain a stable family environment "for the sake of the kids" with a partner they simply have no affection for, but I'm thinking not many. These situations are far more likely to deteriorate than get better.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 30 2018, @06:34PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 30 2018, @06:34PM (#728356)

    Japan has a much more open hookup culture and because they actually use condoms they have an extremely low rate of STDs. Unlike in america where kids are taught that condoms fail constantly and we harp so much purity shit on young women that they're more concerned with the social implications of their hookup than protecting their vag.