Posted on 04/10/2016 7:40:07 AM PDT by Kaslin
Were you aware that April is “STD Awareness Month”?
Neither was I.
STD, of course, stands for “Sexually Transmitted Disease” – also known as venereal disease or STI (“Sexually Transmitted Infection”).
Seems to me that with the virally disproportionate spread of STDs among practitioners of sodomy, it would make more sense to “raise awareness” about the natural consequences of sexual promiscuity during June, which President Obama regularly dubs “LGBT Pride Month.”
Nonetheless, and speaking of pride and promiscuity, you oughta head on over to Twitter and check out the left’s latest do-nothing hashtag: #ShoutYourStatus (meaning, sexual disease). You can thank me later.
While there, you will be treated to a stupefying spread of disbelief-suspension, rationalization and justification relative to how, and why, people contract these nasty bedroom bugs in the first place.
#ShoutYourStatus is evidently the similarly twisted sister of Planned Parenthood’s profligate #ShoutYourAbortion campaign. Therein, mostly “progressive” feminists joined together to brag on social media of having their own sons and daughters dismembered alive, and then parted out for profit, or tossed in the back-alley dumpster like so much trash – all so they could avoid paying the piper and keep on truckin’ loosey-goosey.
And now, like abortion, to these same “social justice” warriors, infecting themselves and others with herpes, AIDS, gonorrhea, syphilis and the like, isn’t just OK. It’s a personal accomplishment.
What I am now doing, that is, speaking bluntly and truthfully about things of which our leftist friends prefer to deny, is labeled “slut shaming” by these self-deluded proponents of Consequence-Free-Sex™ (something that does not exist).
Keep in mind that I would never use the word “slut” to describe one of God’s priceless feminine creatures. It has, instead, become en vogue among our younger feminist set, to loudly and proudly acknowledge themselves as such in order to “destigmatize” the slang term’s referent sexual promiscuity, along with said behavior’s entirely foreseeable outcome (i.e., any or all form of a wide variety of potential crotch cooties).
Political correctness is an STD.
For instance, feminist blogger Ella Dawson (@brosandprose), “shouted her status” by tweeting: “I’m not interested in playing identity politics. I’m a slut, and I have herpes. I am still a person who deserves respect.”
To Ms. Dawson, I would respond that no one “deserves” respect. Each one of us deserves, based upon our own merit, nothing short of eternal damnation. Respect is something earned, and eternal salvation, something freely given. As a daughter of God, created in His own image and likeness, she does, however, deserve to be treated respectfully – and with love and kindness.
And truth.
Still, I wonder if Ms. Dawson has considered that the first aspect of her admission, “I’m a slut,” may at least be tangentially related to the second: “I have herpes.”
Alas, it appears no. As evidenced by a subsequent tweet, the causal connection between actions and consequences yet eludes our young friend’s tenuous grasp: “A few weeks ago, I told a cute guy at a bar that I had herpes. Then I slept with him. Hehehehe.”
Yikes, I wonder if Mr. Cute Guy knows that, much like John Kasich, herpes never goes away.
Anyhow, Ms. Dawson happily tweeted on: “An STD is not a reflection of your character or a consequence of poor choices. It’s an inevitability.”
Right.
Well, I guess it is inevitable to the same extent that when one gapes directly down the barrel of a loaded Glock .45 and pulls the trigger, one inevitably divests one’s cranium of a significant share of its hitherto undisturbed gray matter.
Speaking of disturbed gray matter (and diminished quantities thereof), Ella Dawson is not alone in adopting this false, morally relative, actions-without-consequences view of the world.
This mindset is progressivism personified.
Next up? #ShoutYoureNotTetheredToReality.
I decided to weigh in. “STIs are the natural consequence of sin,” I tweeted. “God’s perfect abstinence until man-wife marriage plan prevents 100% of STIs.”
“Dr. P,” with the Twitter handle, @Cataracthealer (evidently an actual M.D.), quickly rejoined, “Many people don’t want to be married, but also don’t want to be celibate.”
To which I responded, “Correct. Which is disobedience to God (aka, sin). ‘The wages of sin is death.’ Hence, herpes, AIDS, etc.”
He then asked, legitimately, I might add, “How about the non-sinners who get the diseases from the sinners? For Example: Ryan White or faithful wife of whoring hubby, etc.?”
Putting aside for a moment that there is no such thing as a “non-sinner,” I nonetheless replied, “Indeed, horrible situations each, wherein one party is victimized by the sins of another. Yet sin remains the root cause.”
Indeed, I would be remiss if I did not concede that, while a significant minority such instances may represent, there are times when, via drug transfusion or due to a wayward spouse, innocent people can, and do, become infected with STDs through no fault of their own.
Still, the vast majority of infections occur as the natural outcome of bad choices – of sin.
Choices like those made by “BadGrrrlMeat” (@lachristagreco), who, like Ms. Dawson, boasted of having contracted herpes. She responded to my original tweet with, “Sinning is the best. I’m a proud sinner!”
Which immediately reminded me of Philippians 3:10: “Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things.”
Oh, how the Word of God is Truth.
“Don’t get me wrong,” I closed. “I’m not judging. I’m a sinner as bad as any other. Yet truth is truth. Truth, who is Christ, saved me.”
And I pray that Truth might save “ELD” (@eld3393), who asked the Twittersphere, “I kicked off #STIAwarenessMonth by sharing my herpes+ story w/ 7th grade human sexuality classes. How are you celebrating?”
Celebrating herpes? Seventh graders?
#ShoutYourStatus, world!
The world celebrates sin.
The world needs saving.
Reminds me of Monty Python’s Medical Love Song.
Back in the 1970’s I was pretty much lax in my behavior over this subject. Once I went to VN, Thailand, and the PI, I found out there was stuff (diseases) out there that could make your willy fall off and bark at you. Straightened my ass right out.
Yer lucky they let you back in the country.
I have a story to tell.
I actually had a Thai hooker, BAREBACK, and lived to tell about it.
No lie.
I hate to say it, but celibacy has never been widely practiced and probably never will be.
STDs would not have evolved without the human behavior that facilitates their spread.
That said, people should make some effort to protect themselves against those diseases. Clearly, those tweeters are not concerned right now whether they get those diseases, because they believe that they can be cured with a round of antibiotics or antivirals.
But antibiotic resistant bacteria are spreading. And some of those bacteria are very adept at evading the immune system, so that once you get them, if you cannot eradicate them with antibiotics, you are stuck with the infection forever. Gonorrhea can cause sterility, and can have devastating effect if passed to a newborn during the birth process. (It is for this reason that newborn infants are always presented to their mothers with puffy eyes—that’s from the eye ointment used to prevent ophthalmic gonorrhea.) Syphilis eventually affects the brain and skeletal system. Etc.
And antivirals do not actually get rid of viruses. The viruses hide inside cells, often out of sight of the immune system and out of reach of antivirals. The best an antiviral can do is mitigate symptoms while the immune system controls the active infection. Some viruses, like the papilloma that causes many cancers, actually insert their DNA into the human DNA, thus becoming a permanent part of cells.
Sure, they can brag about getting STDs, and maybe they think it decreases the stigma of getting those diseases. But it would be better to brag about being careful and avoiding those diseases in the first place.
The STD rates among young people are horrible; my wife used to work with one who felt she had no obligation to warn partners about her herpes because at some point some guy hadn’t warned her. Very creepy; makes it much easier to avoid straying...
Yer slackin, dude. I beat you to a VD thread by over a full minute!
Five dolla MPC, no MP, no VD.
It’s not just viruses. Our bacteria own us. There is more of them in us than us. A healthy life with good food, soil, environment, love can be the difference between your good health and everything else: cancer, depression, auto-immune, etc. who you share food, spit, hugs, yes, sex organs with makes a difference in your bacterial biome. Young people can endure mass bad bacterial exposure, for a short while. At 20 maybe one can have a weekend with 5 sex partners, eat pizza left out since yesterday and undercooked burgers. At 40, maybe not. That stuff starts to influence your overall health.
The more you learn about what the wrong bacteria can do to your life, the less you get excited about a rock star life with groupies in every town.
For those that never read the article...
The whole take-away point is....
“much like John Kasich, herpes never goes away.”
Why would I be excited about such a life in the first place?
LMAO, and the ugly Soros.
I had occasion to seek medical evaluation friday. I had a chest rash. Both docs are not sure what it is but are reasonably certain it is not contagious or dangerous so after sending me for a ton of blood work left the exam room. About ten seconds later, the older doc came in and asked: how old are you? I said 70. He said wow, you look much younger. My advice is whatever you have been doing keep doing it. I said good clean living generally works out well for you. He laughed and said you should be the poster boy.
I got home and told my wife of that exchange and added, I now have a certified medical opinion of how young I look. She stammered a bit so I added, just say you married a younger man!!
Yup, I’m pretty sure that Soros invented Herpes, then he inflected Kasich with it.
Sigh. It's so important to place one's adverbial phrases carefully.
Yah. But a generation ago, when people committed fornication (P-in-V, not just mutual masturbation to keep the guy from getting too pushy..., it was generally with the person they ended up marrying anyway.
Excellent catch, I had to go several times through the article before I found it.
#badgrrlmeat
With that picture above? Hurlllll
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