Word: gonorrhea
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...flights passing through carry the R.A.F. equivalent of a stewardess, known technically as a loadmaster or quartermaster and to the men on Gan as "quartermattress" or, simply "Q." Proof of conquest is almost impossible; the only man to provide it was a now legendary corporal who came down with gonorrhea and was carried in triumph to the base doctor on the shoulders of his peers...
...defend. For him, the war is no more than a hastily-built bureaucratic contraption within which the warrior must eke out a petty and sadistic existence profiteering promotions, medals, and love-making. Wry but bitter, Sloan's hero constantly visits the base's dentist while worrying about continual gonorrhea, and enjoys pissing into the flak around his helicopter gunship. Amid the war's psychic viciousness the hero maintains his uneasy sanity by means of his crudely cynical opportunism and angry mischief...
Fiumara said that the jellies used with diaphragms have no acid pH and can sometimes act as chemical barriers to gonorrhea...
reason why "gonorrhea has become an epidemic in the United States. We estimate one and one-half million new cases of gonorrhea annually...
...birth control pill, he said, "has hurt us in the area of VD. The pill increases moisture in the vaginal track and changes the pH of the vaginal floor from acid, which is normal, to alkaline, which is abnormal. The gonorrhea organism thrives in an alkaline medium...