Facebook Leads to Syphilis, Health Officials Warn

[Ralph Wiggum]

According to a Telegraph article, British health officials have a new message: Facebook = Syphilis. While that may be a simplification, the actual correlation seems a little simple in itself, so we don’t feel we’re exxaggerating that much.

The new theory is based on the fact that syphilis has increased four times over in areas of Great Britain where Facebook enjoys the most popularity.

Professor Peter Kelly, a director of public health in one of the affected districts, put it together as such: “Syphilis is a devastating disease. Anyone who has unprotected sex with casual partners is at high risk. There has been a fourfold increase in the number of syphilis cases detected with more young women being affected. I don’t get the names of people affected, just figures, and I saw that several of the people had met sexual partners through these sites. Social networking sites are making it easier for people to meet up for casual sex.”

Sounds like shaky evidence to me, but Facebook does indeed make it easier for sex-obsessed members of society to hook up with all kinds of partners (and syphilis). 

“Get off Facebook and take out the trash or you’ll get syphilis!” sounds like the new battle cry of parents everywhere.

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[Texacon]

KC

[Wineslob]

Social networking sites are making it easier for people to meet up for casual sex

I guess pubs don't count?   

[littlelamb]

Don't they make web sites for just hooking up for sex

[The Village Idiot]

Don't they make web sites for just hooking up for sex

You couldn't even count them all

[littlelamb]

You couldn't even count them all

I know I was trying to be a smart ass forgot to add this

[vesta111]

I know I was trying to be a smart ass forgot to add this

Anyone remember having to take a blood test before getting a marriage license.?

Today people get all out of shape when they realise their parents had to be tested by the state for social diseases before they could marry.

At one time anyone tested for STD was turned into the state as a carrier of disease. What the state then did with that information I have no clue as no one I knew had that problem.

It might be interesting to do a search on how each state treated those they refused to allow to marry because one of the partners had a medical problem.

Northern west coast states made it a crime for anyone with Epilepsy to marry well into the 1970's unless they were sterilized first.

Some States make it difficult for those who are deaf to marry claiming deaf parents cannot raise children.   Same for parents that have a female that can pass Hemophelia on to her sons.

Today we have swung way back in the opposite direction, we feel that anyone with Aids that does not inform a partner has the right to spread that disease without question.

Herpies, now that is the new problem, lives are destroyed from contacting that disease, yet the disease keeps spreading due to laws that protect the carrier and not the unknowing victim.

Very complicated world we have now, we can only hope by the grace of God we are not to become a victim of those that harm us and they have the right to do so.

[Wineslob]

Don't they make web sites for just hooking up for sex

Yup, Craigslist.

[Texacon]

Anyone remember having to take a blood test before getting a marriage license.?

Today people get all out of shape when they realise their parents had to be tested by the state for social diseases before they could marry.

At one time anyone tested for STD was turned into the state as a carrier of disease. What the state then did with that information I have no clue as no one I knew had that problem.

It might be interesting to do a search on how each state treated those they refused to allow to marry because one of the partners had a medical problem.

Northern west coast states made it a crime for anyone with Epilepsy to marry well into the 1970's unless they were sterilized first.

Some States make it difficult for those who are deaf to marry claiming deaf parents cannot raise children.   Same for parents that have a female that can pass Hemophelia on to her sons.

Today we have swung way back in the opposite direction, we feel that anyone with Aids that does not inform a partner has the right to spread that disease without question.

Herpies, now that is the new problem, lives are destroyed from contacting that disease, yet the disease keeps spreading due to laws that protect the carrier and not the unknowing victim.

Very complicated world we have now, we can only hope by the grace of God we are not to become a victim of those that harm us and they have the right to do so.

I thought the blood tests were to test for incompatibility of blood types.  Are you sure they were testing for STD's?

KC

[IassaFTots]

I thought the blood tests were to test for incompatibility of blood types.  Are you sure they were testing for STD's?

KC

Yup.  Syphillis...

As of May 2002, only seven states (and the District of Columbia) still required a blood test to get married (according to the Colorado Department of Public Health; an updated, centralized list is difficult to obtain). However, many of these last remaining "holdouts" have since dropped the requirement. Only a few places still require pre-marital blood tests as of April 2008:

Mississippi – A syphilis test is required for men and women.
Montana – A rubella test is required for women.
District of Columbia – a syphilis test is required for men and women.
The reason that some states

http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/W/35320/35323/361888.html?d=dmtHMSContent

[RobJohnson]

KC

 

Social networking sites are less smokey then the bar scene, and less expensive. I've scored alot of dates thanks to facebook & myspace.