The impact of the so called “hook up” mentality.
And did they have to name it after the Subaru WRX STI?
Heterosexual white Millennials and Gen-Z'ers are having the least amount of sex of any generation for the past fifty years. There's more thirty year old virgins today than at any time in history.
It's Third World immigrants, gay males, and blacks driving the STD rate through the roof.
But like every other social pathology where you can point to the behavior of specific demographics, we're just going to ignore the elephant in the room and pretend like everyone is responsible.
I will bet it is driven by promiscuous homosexual men.
No fear of AIDS, just take PreP.
Get prescribed a single-dose antibiotic for each day of sexual activity. No fear of syphilis and gonorrhea. And if you do catch one, more antibiotics.
Antibiotic resistance? Why worry? Society owes you a cure.
Condoms? No fun.
Monkeypox? Stigma. Call it Mpox. Fixed!
I believe recent statistics show that 1/3 of men under 30 have not had sex in the past year, so it is probably the Chads, top 10% of men, and 80% of women.