Word: gonorrhea
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...GOOD OLD DAYS, veneral disease was simple," says Eddie Murphy in his HBO special Delirious. "If you got gonorrhea you got a shot and that would clear it right up. Now they've got herpes--you keep that forever like luggage." And AIDS too. "AIDS is scary' cause it kills...
...Steve. And thanks for telling us that having sex with prostitutes increases ones' likelihood of contracting a venereal disease, whether the customer is male, female, heterosexual, or homosexual. And thanks for telling us that figures for herpes, chlamydia, and urethritis are not as accurate as those for gonorrhea and syphilis because the former do not have to be reported to the health department...
...brighter side, said acting U.S. Assistant Secretary of Health Dr. James Mason, recent studies show declines in the rate of syphilis and gonorrhea, indicating that some Americans have already become less promiscuous, possibly out of fear of AIDS or herpes. As a result, the spread of the AIDS virus may be slowing. "This disease is controllable now," said Mason. Despite some of the frightening evidence to the contrary, he insisted, "the feeling of helplessness that many Americans feel is absolutely unnecessary and counterproductive...
...conveying it is ingenious in the extreme. The tale begins in the 1880s, when Wilbur Larch graduates from Bowdoin College in Maine. As a present his father buys the young man a night with a Portland prostitute. Larch gains from this experience a sense of shame, a case of gonorrhea and the conviction that he can do very nicely without any more sex in the future. During his years at Harvard Medical School, Larch develops a fondness for sniffing ether and a knowledge of the appalling problems that unwanted pregnancies bring to the poor women of Boston. The doctor settles...
While the newspapers continued to refer euphemistically to V.D. as a "rare blood disease," and the U.S. Post Office banned the pamphlet What Every Girl Should Know because of its explicit references to gonorrhea, physicians became more vocal in supporting sex education and moralistic in abhorring the vices, "bred in the pestilential hot house atmosphere of dark, dirty, ill-ventilated homes, which induce ... abnormal cravings...