Posted on 04/10/2016 7:40:07 AM PDT by Kaslin
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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