Gay Syphilis Cases Triple In County ( Casual Attitude Toward Safe Sex Practices)

Tampa Tribune ^

[Retired Chemist]

TAMPA - Syphilis, a sexually transmitted disease in decline for years, is up sharply among gay and bisexual men - prompting Hillsborough County to alert doctors this week to the threat. While the number of reported cases is small, the three-fold increase in the past year is alarming health authorities because syphilis eases the spread of HIV and indicates a casual attitude toward safe-sex practices.

The increase here mirrors a nationwide trend reported recently by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Nationally, syphilis is on the rise among gay and bisexual men, mostly in large cities, for the first time since 1990.

The trend is ``something that was seen over a year ago, starting in San Francisco,'' said Keith Rosenbach, director of the Hillsborough County Health Department's communicable disease division. ``It's affecting us here, too.''

To reach men who are most at risk, the health department is attempting to send public health investigators into bars and other venues where gay men gather.

[Retired Chemist]

They just don't learn

[Commander8]

If you don't want to catch syph, don't have anal sex with other men.

[Tax-chick]

No, really? It makes a difference?

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

What's really sad and pathetic is that the free-love types curse anybody who voices a negative opinion about paying for their medical treatment after they go out and catch VD.

[ex-Texan]

Gays can't tell the difference between one end the other. Casual is as casual does. 'Nuff said.

[shetlan]

Syphilis, a sexually transmitted disease in decline for years, is up sharply among gay and bisexual men ...

Why is this kind of information so hard to find?

[Hank Kerchief]

Syphilis, a sexually transmitted disease in decline for years, is up sharply among gay and bisexual men ...

Why is this kind of information so hard to find?

Well, most of us don't really give rap what kind of deases are prevalent among fudge packers anyway. It's really no concern of ours.

But if you really want to know, here are a bunch of resources at USABIG Gay Agenda

Hank

[jslade]

I don't care. Let them buttf**k themselves to death.

[DonQ]

This mini-epidemic is indicative of something. Syphilis is communicated, for the most part, the way AIDS is (altho there seem to be a few transmission modes exclusive to each), so the very behavior that is spreading syphilis could have been spreading AIDS - and could be spreading it already, except syphilis is diagnosed a lot earlier than AIDS.

This indicates a gay trend away from "safe sex" into high-risk behavior.

Some people are deliberately indifferent to an epidemic that kills homosexuals, but it's worth remembering that the first AIDS epidemic (when diagnostic technique was very primitive) wound up spreading AIDS to a lot of other people including hemophiliacs (tainted transfusions killed some terrible percentage of the hemophiliacs in some countries) and organ transplant recipients. The fact that, now, an enormous chunk of the population is persona non grata when it comes to blood drives and organ donations is causing difficulty for lots of other people.

[Lizavetta]

While the number of reported cases is small, the three-fold increase in the past year is alarming health authorities because syphilis eases the spread of HIV and indicates a casual attitude toward safe-sex practices.

Notice how they use the world "casual", as if they're talking about your favorite pair of old leather shoes. It is NOT a casual attitude but a selfish, reckless, and careless one.

[scholar]

What's really sad and pathetic is that the free-love types curse anybody who voices a negative opinion about paying for their medical treatment after they go out and catch VD.

That is so true. I work in a medical facility in NW Indiana. Most of the patients in our OB-Gyne clinic are Medicaid recipients. Just for an example, one 14 year old patient already is infected with five different venereal diseases and has already had one abortion, and there are many more like her.

The school districts are spending huge taxpayer dollars on sex education, and then we pay for the diseases they have contracted because they were apparently asleep in class. I don't care if they are gay or straight--I am seriously sick of paying for their irresponsibility!

[thedilg]

"The school districts are spending huge taxpayer dollars on sex education, and then we pay for the diseases they have contracted because they were apparently asleep in class."

They were not asleep in class. The message given to them is that it is inevitable that a teenager will fornicate his derriere off. Therefore please use safe sex. i.e. condoms

This attitude provides the student a high level of confidence that fornicating is with almost no risk. If things go wrong he/she will be cured at no cost. Therefore fornicate without restraint.

The sex teachers know that the teenager will do a terrible job of using a condom. They know that a condom is not effective against many of the 50 STD's being passed around today. They know that several of the STD's are incureable.
They know that a condom will fail in its mission about 15% of the time under the best of conditions. In other words the public school sex teachers are setting up booby traps for the unwary teenager. The results are as expected.

Godspeed, The Dilg

[RonF]

They know that a condom will fail in its mission about 15% of the time under the best of conditions.

Wait a minute. I've used my share of condoms. I haven't seen anywhere near this rate of failure. More like about 1%, and lower as I got some practice. Where did you get this number?

[sheik yerbouty]

The only hope, medically, would be the miracle drug, Trinoasitol.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

No, really? It makes a difference?

The rectal wall is only one layer of cells thick. Its easy to create a tear and allow bacteria or viruses into the bloodstream. The vaginal wall is dozens of cells thick and tough to puncture.

[thedilg]

I was talking about teenagers. They use old condoms that was carried int heir wallet for months. They put them on wrong. They are not very conscienious about their use. etc.

All you have to do is check the teenage pregnancy rate and the teenage STD rate which is now of pandemic proportions to verify for yourself.

Godspeed, The Dilg

[FITZ]

Most of the patients in our OB-Gyne clinic are Medicaid recipients.

We're paying so much for all these welfare programs but all they do is make people irresponsible and more dependent on the taxpayers. I hope the Republicans start slashing away all these stupid programs that don't solve a single problem but instead create more.

[ladylib]

I pay for my own medical insurance. The premiums just go up and up. I wrote the state insurance commissioner and asked why. The reply I got was that I'm paying for the medical care of drunks, dope addicts, HIV patients, etc., etc.

Now homosexuals want to play a major part in the indoctrination of public school children. Parents had better wake up.

[bvw]

Carnal Tunnel Syndrome.