Venereal Disease Death by Ignorance

Welcome to Episode 6 of Death by Ignorance!


This week we will be taking on Sexually Transmitted Diseases - not literally, of course. We'll look into a little of the history and get you up to date on what's out there, before your date does, if you catch my drift. Everything was going reasonably well until I started looking at the state of sex education in American schools. I kept the rant as short as possible, but I decided not to take it out. You should know what is going on in schools - it will make you very angry.
Here is a link to the CDC's most recent update on the diseases, treatments, and a ton of other very useful information. https://www.cdc.gov/std/default.htm
This CDC website links to a host of other valuable educational resources.
The information regarding the current state of sex education was taken from an article written by Dr. Justin Lehmiller and it is available here...https://www.lehmiller.com/blog/2019/3/18/the-state-of-sex-education-in-the-united-states-in-2019
Some of the historical stories were taken from this article, published in the online magazine Aeon... https://aeon.co/essays/getting-down-and-medieval-the-sex-lives-of-the-middle-ages
If you do not read this publication already, I strongly recommend you give it a try!
Thanks for listening, have a good day, and wash your hands before and after. Got it?


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