Comment by nephihaha
1 month ago
Promiscuity is not a healthy lifestyle and we need to stop presenting it as one. The AIDS crisis of the 1980s should have been enough of a warning. If people don't sleep around then HPV's spread will be much reduced and they will be much less likely to catch other STIs.
This adds nothing. It has been repeatedly shown that stupid abstinence-driven approaches to public health do not work. It’s equivalent to saying “maybe the obesity crisis would be solved if we all just ate less”.
Moral crusades have zero place in public health and are actively harmful.
This isn't an abstinence driven approach it is a marry 'young' and then only that one partener for life.
Except it doesn't work very well.
Those who marry younger are more likely to divorce. Or lead unhappy lives because they don't divorce to save face, but the marriage is dead.
What a truly sad life
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That just seems like abstinence with extra steps.
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> Disease transmission becomes prevalent if people keep doing the things which spread it
The solution to covid/flu is wearing well-fitting masks and vaccines rather than never getting out.
The solution to STIs is good protection with vaccines, condoms and tests.
Religion can stay out of that.
Yeah that’s a moral crusade. It’s a public health issue; you deal with it through public health measures like education, vaccination, and treatment. You don’t make it go away by wagging your finger at it.
If people stopped driving, we would have zero car crashes.
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A better comparison would be saying that we shouldn't have seat belts because people should be driving more carefully in the first place.
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The AIDS crisis happened because it was unknown and very stealthy--nobody knew there was a risk to be guarded against. And it certainly didn't help that because of the association with gays the government response was slow-rolled. Same thing we saw with Covid--the US response was slow-rolled because at first it looked like it was selecting for blue areas.
Without the gays it might have gone a long time as a blood vector without being identified. When it was a "gay" disease it was busy killing old people who got transfusions but were never identified as having AIDS.