Posted on 04/20/2016 3:24:48 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Rates of gonorrhea, a sexually transmitted disease, are rising sharply in California, especially among gay and bisexual men, according to new state health data.
The gonorrhea rate among California men aged 15 to 44 shot up 54 percent between 2011 and 2014, according to recently released data from the California Department of Public Health. Among women in the same age group, it rose 35 percent.
An average of 34,000 gonorrhea cases among 15-to-44 year-olds was reported in California each year between 2012 and 2014, most of them among men.
By contrast, the national gonorrhea rate, calculated slightly differently than Californias, rose about 15 percent among men aged 15-44 between 2010 and 2013, the latest available data for that group.
Public health experts say the reasons for gonorrheas resurgence in California are complex. It may reflect better screening, which detects cases that would not have been found previously.
Other possible explanations include lower condom use among young people and the rise of Tinder and other hookup apps that promote multiple sex partners. But experts say theres not enough data to pin the rising gonorrhea rates on any one cause.
Clinicians say they are frustrated they havent made more headway in controlling the disease.
We have great testing, [and the] medications are highly effective, said Dr. Heidi Bauer, chief of the Sexually Transmitted Disease Control Branch of the California Department of Public Health. This should not be an ongoing health problem. We should be able to do a much better job.
The disease is continuing to spread in part because some people do not notify their partners so they can be treated, and local public health workers dont always have the resources to track down and inform them, Bauer said.
(Excerpt) Read more at californiahealthline.org ...
Medicine is outgunned in this battle and always will be.
I think God prohibits promiscuity (whether gay or straight), anal sex (whether with a man or a woman), contraception, and other unnatural sexual behavior because it is bad for us. He loves us and wants by His Law to prevent a lot of unnecessary suffering and sorrow.
Does that make sense?
Yes, I too have seen evidence that the STD rate is much lower for lesbians than for gay men. Disease rates are much more closely linked to number of partners, not to orientation, and lesbians are less likely than gay men to be stupidly promiscuous.
Lesbian rates of mental/emotional illness and domestic violence, however, are way up there. The dynamics in these relationships are somewhat unbalanced.
God is against abortion because it’s not good for us -— any of us.
Yes.
So what color ribbon do we have for this one?
I remember the joke from the 80s about the gay guy coming out of the doctor’s office happily shouting, “IT’S SYPHILIS!!!”
Makes total sense.
California has more accidental rear-enders than the rest of the country put together...
Where's the NTSB??
: )
*The Villages* goes west.
Militant women and "equality..."
Enjoy!
Careful what you wish for, ugly hags...
Compared to male deviants, that's not saying much.
How does their rate compare to normal women?
Or so I'm told.
Meanwhile, because a lot of gay men really don't expect fidelity or emotional intimacy ("love") their "marriage" can last longer because both of them are still promiscuous and it's accepted. So infidelity will break up a woman-woman couple, but not a man-man couple.
Or so I'm told.
I must say, be careful of generalizations. Normal heterosexuality seems to be in a rather sad state, lots of dissatisfaction out there, which is probably a contributing factor in the rise of deviant alternatives.
Thanks. That is too gross to comprehend
Oh, that’s funny in a pitiful way. The ‘80s and AIDS.
Yes as a matter fact a person can.
So just remember, when he tells you “just use your mouth baby, that way you can’t catch any thing or get pregnant”.
You wont get pregnant, but you can sure as hell catch one hell of a lot of diseases.
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