I'm still furious about the lack of thought most people have on this issue.
While I don't disagree that the woman was foolish for not using protection, I also see that what the man did was with malice. He knowingly exposed her to an illness. Thats criminal.
It seems like most people really only care about branding the woman with any label - that of "slut" - for having sex after four dates. This without knowing what happened during those four dates and having no concept of what its like to be around the age of 50.
I see a lot of hateful and ignorant internet trolls out there who care more about attacking a woman than saying one thing about a man who would lie about an illness and infect someone with it.
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2012/06/19 18:13:05
A couple of weeks ago, a woman reportedly won $900,000 in court from a guy who gave her genital herpes. According to the report, the man failed to inform her of his disease and refused to use protection. But we wanted to know if the public feels that victims of "suprise STDs" should receive compensation, or if they should still be held personally accountable for neglecting to use protection. Check out this week's infographic for details on how people responded. Let's dive!
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Sex outside of marriage is a risky business.
Thank you for clearly demonstrating the bias in this issue. Would you blame a woman who gives a man an std because she refused to wear a female condom?
You're saying that yes, you would blame the woman with the std who doesn't wear protection and gives the std to her partner as well? Well as long as you believe what you believe consistently, good on you. I just hope one of these days you realize that women can be just as despicable as men.
as to men wanting different outcomes from sex, well men and women are different but plenty of women have a healthy sex drive and might not appreciate you speaking on their behalf...
and women sometings pay for sex as well - ever heard of a gigalo?
Sarah Jane Porter, 43, who works at the Knightsbridge branch of Vidal Sassoon, set out to infect a string of men after contracting the Aids virus from a black lover.
Over a five-year period, she is thought to have had unprotected sex with with dozens of people who were unaware she was HIV positive.
A nationwide appeal to trace Porter's former lovers was issued last night as she was jailed for 32 months for deliberately infecting her ex-partner."
If you have a link to the transscript to the court case please give the link else i will bwe forced to believe you have no idea yourself what was said in the courtroom
http://www.independent.co.uk/...
seriously though, some women do/ some dont - you may be projecting your personal experiences with women who feel differently.
there are plenty of women who feel the physical need for sex, who might not like you speaking broadly on behalf of the sisterhood...
People have to think of all the std's that one can be responsible for including those not listed on the chart like HPV. HPV syptoms can develop up to 20 years after contact. New std's are added all the time.
Watch what you wish for, what's next?
Lawsuits from getting chicken pox (could lead to painful Shingles) for $2 million?
Which new stds are added all the time? Give references. Without them that is a very bold statement.
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/p...
The vaccinations are effective for only a few specific vicious strains out of at least a hundred known strains of HPV. They're side effects and should not be given to any child who does not understanding these side effects
Foolishly, this disease was ingored for years due to the stigma to seek treatment for "genital warts". The male rarely exhibits syptoms, no accurate testing.Treatment is unique to each case, and often radical. It's more common that once believed.
Did you know that HPV has been found in throat, esophogeal, and lung cancer? Here are two examples
http://health.usnews.com/heal...
http://informahealthcare.com/...
New STD's, well here are two examples.
"Researchers recently discovered a new strain of gonorrhea, H014, that can’t be killed with current antibiotics." http://news.menshealth.com/th...
"A study released in June 2007 found that infections caused by a bacterium called Mycoplasma genitalium seem to have surpassed gonorrhea in prevalence to become the third most common STD among young people in the United States."
http://std.about.com/od/bacte...
My information is from the CDC, The Cervical Cancer Foundation, as well as peer review journals that I use to educate others through a founation I created fo...
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/p...
The vaccinations are effective for only a few specific vicious strains out of at least a hundred known strains of HPV. They're side effects and should not be given to any child who does not understanding these side effects
Foolishly, this disease was ingored for years due to the stigma to seek treatment for "genital warts". The male rarely exhibits syptoms, no accurate testing.Treatment is unique to each case, and often radical. It's more common that once believed.
Did you know that HPV has been found in throat, esophogeal, and lung cancer? Here are two examples
http://health.usnews.com/heal...
http://informahealthcare.com/...
New STD's, well here are two examples.
"Researchers recently discovered a new strain of gonorrhea, H014, that can’t be killed with current antibiotics." http://news.menshealth.com/th...
"A study released in June 2007 found that infections caused by a bacterium called Mycoplasma genitalium seem to have surpassed gonorrhea in prevalence to become the third most common STD among young people in the United States."
http://std.about.com/od/bacte...
My information is from the CDC, The Cervical Cancer Foundation, as well as peer review journals that I use to educate others through a founation I created for HPV, all funds go to cervical cancer studies, support and developing a protocal with the AMA to encourage monthly self-exams similar to a breast exam.
I lost 2 young loved ones, it's close to my heart.
The vaccine protects against the strains causing the vast majority of the sexual organ related symptoms and therefore protects against the development of cervical cancer in most cases.
Also important to mention the infection is usually temporary. The immune system can fight it on its own.
I'm not so sure about the causal relation of certain strains with other cancers. Can you give data about the prevalence of the cancers associated with HPV?
The "new stds": These are no new "stds". The H014 strain is just a mutation and Mycoplasma genitalium is also not new. It might be diagnosed more now than in earlier times, due to more advanced diagnostic methods, since it is difficult to culture outside the body.
How are these monthly exams supposed to work?
Here's one for you to research, I could use some help with it. Lyme disease is shown to pass from mother to child in utero, if or when will it be added to the list of Std's?
The exam is for monitoring of the vagina (with a mirror) to detect changes in color, texture, or appearance of any growth etc..
However I can't find anything in your references about about real new "STDs".
As far as i know Lime disease is especially transmitted by ticks not sexually. "STD" or rather STI is a somewhat stupid classification anyways, because many of the diseases can also be transmitted via blood.
How many STIs can you detect with your method?
I gave you two examples (there are more where they came from) which you say are now diagnosed because of new proceedures. Well, that would make them newly diagnosed. I gave you examples of HPV cases of the non sexual organs aka lungs, etc.
So you don't know about the active studies regarding the sexual transmission of LYME Disease? Look it up.
As I have already explained, the exam that my organization and I am proposing is to help women to become more comfortable with their vagina, the majority of women have never seen their own so they could not detect a change. HPV is mostly indetectable in men, so carriers can spread it without knowing. There's another surprise STD not listed in the chart above.
WHat have you provided to add to this conversation??
If anyone other than you were interested in this information, they can read it too or just ask me. I dont believe you are interested, you just want to argue for argument's sake. No thanks, I conceed, my time been wasted enough.
Lyme d. isn't considered a sti for the same reason a cold is not considered as an sti. Because sex is not the main way of transmission.
Both of these things are common sense and I can't give you a reference of something that doesn't exist.
I appreciate your efforts to help women, but with being angry and immature you're getting nowhere.
You didn't even read the article or you would have know it is based on the studies by International Society for Sexually Transmitted Diseases Research.
My sources have been cited, yours have not. Denial is all you've provided.
Have a great day.
Ignoring my arguments, citing tabloid journalism. With that you are right here on "shallow head".