People. Use protection, please! And if you're very active with multiple partners, get tested frequently. It's not rocket science. We're in 2025, this really shouldn't be happening.
Especially with how easily it spreads through oral, how women rarely get symptoms, and how it can appear no disappear for long periods before resurfacing randomly
I remember, when I was a kid, of a bunch of ads on TV raising awareness and medical professionals would visit schools to teach stuff. And you could get free condoms in events and medical facilities. Those campaigns were not only about STDs, also about a bunch of other health related stuff, from driving safely to using floss and recycling.
I don't see those any more. I talk to people that never heard of those campaigns, and some are afraid to "look like a sailor" for carrying a condom.
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SammyJK@programming.dev · 31 pts · 339d
People. Use protection, please! And if you're very active with multiple partners, get tested frequently. It's not rocket science. We're in 2025, this really shouldn't be happening.
ryannathans@aussie.zone · 8 pts · 339d
Especially with how easily it spreads through oral, how women rarely get symptoms, and how it can appear no disappear for long periods before resurfacing randomly
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 339d
It also spreads via hands (and toys). Getting tested is pretty important.
shalafi@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 338d
VDs have become much more rare than when I was teen. Hell, crabs are damned near extinct. I think we've collectively slacked off on protection.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 339d
Remember, Folks. Flies attract disease, so keep yours closed.
(or use protection.)
ook@discuss.tchncs.de · 9 pts · 339d
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 338d
The problem with abstinence isn’t that it doesn’t work.
It’s that people are horny and simply don’t abstain.
krunklom@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 338d
Three days and theee nights of hard fighting and YOU WILL BE RELIEVED
Nils@piefed.ca · 8 pts · 338d
I remember, when I was a kid, of a bunch of ads on TV raising awareness and medical professionals would visit schools to teach stuff. And you could get free condoms in events and medical facilities. Those campaigns were not only about STDs, also about a bunch of other health related stuff, from driving safely to using floss and recycling.
I don't see those any more. I talk to people that never heard of those campaigns, and some are afraid to "look like a sailor" for carrying a condom.
I think the last campaign I remember in Canada was "Plenty of Syph", a fake dating website where people's profiles would show different stages of the disease. You can see a postmortem here https://zgm.ca/work/ahs-plenty-of-syph/ A broken version of the site is available with Wayback Machine https://web.archive.org/web/20111223055933/http://www.plentyofsyph.com/.
Luouth@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 339d
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 339d
Before you deep-throat, put on a raincoat.
prex@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 339d
The spectre of untreatable STD's is gonna rear its ugly head again.
FauxPseudo@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 339d
It's very convenient that Finland is in Europe.
KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 338d
yle is a finnish broadcaster, so they're probably just saying "hey you're not immune from this, it affects you too"
FauxPseudo@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 338d
That's not nearly as much fun
b_tr3e@feddit.org · 1 pts · 339d
Complacency? I thought it comes from fucking around.