Global warming, food scarcity, mismanagement of resources, overpopulation, Agenda 21, mass riots.
We need not really worry or bother. Nature has a way of controlling the population of any species, when it deems necessary.
First base!
Fornication stimulated by sex ed in public schools pays off.
The population control freaks are thrilled.
>>In the US, the disease occurs in a disproportionate amount in the gay male population.<<
Do you have a reference for that? Not that I don’t believe you but I KNOW that if I say this to some of my family members, I will have to prove it.
Back before gonorrhea was treated with penicillin, there were some very interesting, if nearly forgotten, for some reason, trivia and treatments used. In fact, nobody really *wants* to remember them.
The following is “Not Safe For Work”.
One of the more noticeable effects of gonorrhea in males is the formation of pustules in the urethra, the tube through the middle of the penis used for urination and ejaculation.
Often the first symptom of infection was a “painful burning and drip” during urination. This was so acute that some wit proposed holding a quarter between the teeth while attempting to urinate, and if the quarter had not been bitten in half by the time you were done, you did not have gonorrhea.
In some cases the pustules were so pronounced that they would stem the flow of urine entirely and have to be broken. This was done by the infected man putting his penis on a hard surface like a table, and the doctor unexpectedly pounding on it with his fist. The patient would often pass out from the pain, but be able to urinate after.
Once the pustules were either broken or hardened, internal scarring could result, in some cases causing the penis to bend in an unusual direction. Pronounced curving was called “chordee”, and some examples were impressive.
Around the turn of the 20th Century, a gifted physician who also had aptitude in creating medical instruments, devised a unique device used for the treatment of gonorrhea pustules. It was called “the umbrella”.
The process of using it was first to catheterize the patient, to fill his bladder with an antiseptic, acidic solution. The the catheter was removed and “the umbrella”, a long, metal tube with a screw on one end, was inserted up the urethra.
Once it was inserted, the screw was turned, and several tiny sharp blades would protrude from the other end, deep inside the patient, like a tiny umbrella in appearance. Then the doctor would quickly pull the tube out, the blades tearing open all the pustules at once.
The acute pain often caused the patient to faint. And when waking, he would have to urinate, which would flood the torn pustules with the antiseptic, acidic solution. He would likely faint again at some point.
To my knowledge, there are no surviving examples of “the umbrella” devise, nor have I been able to find any photographs of them, only text descriptions in old medical books.
Be that as it may, it would probably be to everyone’s advantage to encourage medical researchers to devise a new and effective treatment for gonorrhea as soon as possible.
One final note is that left untreated, gonorrhea may cause sterility, as it tends to block the seminal vesicles as well.
