Word: gonorrhea
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...Venereal disease in the U.S. is in creasing at a runaway rate, especially in the high school and college age brackets. Of the two principal diseases, gonorrhea is more "catching," and therefore far more common, with 300,000 new cases reported annually, as against 20,000 for syphilis. The U.S. Public Health Service believes that the true figures, withheld because of embarrassment or ignorance, are closer to 1,200,000 and 300,000. The problem is not the cure; though some strains of both the syphilis and gonorrhea germs are resistant to penicillin, there is still no venereal disease that...
...detectives, Dr. Fiumara has analyzed his problem statistically. Only about 3% of Massachusetts' cases result from contact with prostitutes since, as Dr. Fiumara says, "even streetwalkers take pretty good care of themselves." Homosexual males account for 12%, and heterosexual free love for 85%. The highest incidence of gonorrhea is in the 20-to-24 age range, with teen-agers second. Most of these are 15 to 19, but some are only 13, and a few not yet in their teens...
...hear that a daughter may be infected, but can't hide something like jubilance if it's a son-the attitude of 'I didn't know Junior had it in him.' " This same nurse found a middle-class suburban girl in her teens, a gonorrhea victim, who gave her the names of 14 different contacts she had had in the previous three months...
...Before taking orders, he took a girl named Sally Forrester, whose charms persuaded him of his "duty to enjoy" a secular life. He enjoyed it so much that even a case of "that distemper with which Venus plagues her votaries"-the first of a dozen or more attacks of gonorrhea he suffered in his 20s-failed to revive his religious convictions. When a Scottish nobleman introduced him to the Duke of York, Boswell decided that London was the life...
...sectarianism is promoted strongly by the "conspiracy of silence" or so-called "religious toleration." There is a deadly parallel between the "conspiracy of silence" on sectarianism today with the "conspiracy of silence" on the "social diseases" a few years ago. So long as people were "too nice" to mention gonorrhea and syphilis, these diseases went largely untreated and ate away at countless victims. Because we are "too nice" to call attention to the errors and other evils within one another's sectarianism, they eat away at our religious life. The less defensible the practices of a sect, the more...