STDs hit record high: More Americans than ever are catching chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis

Daily Mail (UK) ^ | October 19, 2016 | Mia De Graaf

[sphinx]

We should label people for STD's. The public has a right to know. A tattoo, easily distinguishable for each STD, should be placed on the face so that potential victims can spot the disease vector before getting socially involved.

The anti-GMO campaigners should switch to something that really would have a major public health impact.

[Mrs. Don-o]

People (of whatever sex, sexual preference, gender identity or gender expression) with sex/dating apps?<

That's supposedly the big "new" factor.

Gay guys are, of course, way WAY up there. Lesbians not so much.

[Jack Hammer]

We’d all be better off if we could behave ourslves, but we’re all human and terribly fallible.

This spread of STDs can probably be traced to the extreme mobility of contemporary society and the practice of ‘barebacking.’

Anonymous sex in bath houses certainly hasn’t helped matters.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

So, the usual suspects.

Dating apps are understandable but sex apps are just weird.

Hey, in a world where they let the crazies run free I am going to go be at my most vulnerable with a total stranger!

At least on a date you are in public and can yell for help.

[TChad]

It is an astonishing graph, that would be of interest to many people. However, they will never see it. It was created by the CDC, but not reproduced by the American media. I linked the image from the Daily Mail.

A Google image search for that graph currently shows six hits, only four of which are relevant. One of those is to the Daily Mail (which I linked), one is to an international news website called Capital Bay News, one is to an Internet forum, and one is to a previous FR post of mine.

I suspect that the graph is simply too politically incorrect to publish.

Count yourself among the lucky few who will ever see it.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Political correctness kills — in this case, it’s killing people the politically-correct purport to support.