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Facebook Leads To Increase In STDs in Britain

Posted by samzenpus on from the friends-and-really-good-friends dept.

ectotherm writes "According to Professor Peter Kelly, a director of Public Health in Great Britain: 'There has been a four-fold increase in the number of syphilis cases detected, with more young women being affected.' Why the increase? People meeting up for casual sex through Facebook. According to the article, 'Social networking sites are making it easier for people to meet up for casual sex. There is a rise in syphilis because people are having more sexual partners than 20 years ago and often do not use condoms.'"

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  1. Damn by Dyinobal · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dammit so I didn't have to sign up for fuckbook?

  2. Wrong places by JWSmythe · · Score: 5, Funny

        I've obviously been looking at the wrong places on Facebook. Where's the "casual sex hookup" area?

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    1. Re:Wrong places by spun · · Score: 4, Funny

      You don't live in the UK, do you? Obviously, something has happened to the stuffy Brits. The UK just had to cut down a bunch of trees because people were 'dogging,' or having public sex there. There is evidently an epidemic of sexy times in the North Atlantic Archipelago. When did 'stiff upper lip' turn into 'stiff willy saluting passing motorists?' and more importantly, can you teach us American how to be a little less puritanical?

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    2. Re:Wrong places by TheRaven64 · · Score: 5, Funny

      When did 'stiff upper lip' turn into 'stiff willy saluting passing motorists?'

      A little while after we exported all of our puritans to the Americas.

      and more importantly, can you teach us American how to be a little less puritanical?

      Sorry...

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    3. Re:Wrong places by joss · · Score: 4, Informative

      There was a nice article in the spectator as to how you people from continental europe list the UK as a favorite destination. This is despite of the food, weather, shitty attitude. It's because we have large numbers of drunken sluts who will fuck just about anything.

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    4. Re:Wrong places by Grishnakh · · Score: 4, Insightful

      It sounds like the answer here is to join Facebook, but use an alias instead of your real name. That way, the people from your past can't find you, and if you need to disappear because one of your new hook-ups turns out to be a psycho, then it'll be easier since you can just create a new alias and start over.

      But honestly, this Facebook hookup thing sounds like a lot of work, alias or no. Wouldn't it be easier to just join AdultFriendFinder for casual sex? Probably not; it seems like women want to believe that men they meet might actually be interested in something long-term, even though it's plainly obvious that they're not, so they need men who tell them all kinds of lies, like "my wife are I are married in name only", "we're separated but staying together just for the kids", etc. Then they act all surprised, like Tiger's girlfriends, when they find out that he's been lying to them.

      Women, is it really so hard to just be honest? If you want casual sex, stop making men jump through hoops and make up lies for it. If you want a long-term relationship, then find a man who's actually single (not one who's married and supposedly "separated"), and keep your legs shut until you actually know him well enough to know he's the one you want to have kids with, or at least know him well enough to know he's not a psycho or a liar.

  3. You heard it here first, folks: by PhasmatisApparatus · · Score: 5, Funny

    You heard it here first, folks: Facebook users cannot figure out how to use condoms!

  4. C!=C by Sta7ic · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Correlation is not causation. Facebook usage may correlate, but doesn't cause it.

    "Don't drink and park. Accidents make people."

    1. Re:C!=C by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Correlation is not causation. Facebook usage may correlate, but doesn't cause it.

      "Don't drink and park. Accidents make people."

      I'd love to see your data disproving causation in this scenario. Or are you just making a blind guess?

      Just because "facebook usage may coorelate" you cannot take the logical leap and say that it "doesn't cause it"

      Correlation is often a good grounds for doing a study to determine causation/non-causation.

      People who don't understand what "correlation != causation" is supposed to convey should avoid using it.

  5. Really? by cbope · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Wow, that's about as enlightening as saying bars and nightclubs lead to more casual sex. People socializing more, and it leads to sex? No shit. Doesn't really matter how the contact is made, does it?

  6. Um... by Pojut · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...I wouldn't say this is a problem with Facebook so much as a problem with fucking stupidity. It's not my place to question someone's sexual activity, but come on...who has sex with a stranger without using a condom?

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    1. Re:Um... by char70ger · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Why would you want to have sex with a "stranger" even if you did have a condom?

    2. Re:Um... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Because it's fun? And they are less of a stranger afterwards.

    3. Re:Um... by Pojut · · Score: 4, Interesting

      I personally wouldn't, but plenty of people would. Like I said, it isn't my place to judge someone's sexual appetites...but I'll judge the hell out of someone recklessly screwing around.

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  7. ..as reported by Murdoch's newspapers by RMH101 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...as they pointedly do NOT mention MySpace. Hmm. Wonder why that could be, NewsCorp?

  8. Murder! by DIplomatic · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hmmm... that's a pretty good shock-headline-mostly-unrelated-to-the-facts, but I bet I can do better.

    "Levi Jeans are Murdering Texans"

    In a whopping 80% of deaths in the state of Texas, the deceased was wearing denim jeans - says a study conducted by the University of Jumping-to-Silly-Conclusions.

  9. False report by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    The german media watchblog BILDblog just reported (in german) this to be a hoax. The connection between Facebook and STDs was constructed by The Sun, not by Prof. Kelly.

    The Department of Public Health even issued a counterstatement according to the BBC.

    1. Re:False report by Faluzeer · · Score: 4, Informative

      If correct that does not surprise me. The Sun is well known (in the UK) to never let the truth get in the way of a good story, especially if the story involves sex.

  10. Re:Really? by nelsonal · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How bout, facebook makes it easy for women to filter and select the few men they all want to sleep with, so those men sleep with huge numbers of women (and disease spreads rampantly).

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  11. Re:i call by icannotthinkofaname · · Score: 4, Funny

    I swear to God, I'll pistol whip the next guy that says "shenanigans"!

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  12. Facebook Suggestions by Tetsujin · · Score: 4, Funny

    Herpes
    120 of your friends are members
    Join This Group

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  13. Re:Network promiscuious mode by natehoy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Young whippersnappers hanging their ports out promiscuously.

    Get off my LAN!

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