Gonorrhea As the Next Superbug

WrongSizeGlass writes "Reuters is reporting that Gonorrhea risks becoming a superbug: 'The sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea risks becoming a drug-resistant "superbug" if doctors do not devise new ways of treating it, a leading sexual health expert said.'"

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Celibacy might suck in some respects...

[petrus4]

...but it does have other fringe benefits.

If this does turn out to be another pandemic, there's a very simple vaccine for it, kids. Keep your pants on. ;)

Use a condom

[DrYak]

or the tests will show up positive for something and you're glad you found before stuff started to fall off/rot your brain/etc.

or : ...and you just keep using a condom properly just like before the result came.

The reason sexual education is insisting on using condoms it that not only do they prevent unwanted pregnancies (like any other contraception method), but the latex will be a physical barrier between you and the (untested) bugs which might be on the other side of it. As long as the condom is properly used and no other stupid stuff is done aside, the risks tends toward zero.

The golden rule is : do whatever both of you want (consensually) but : ALWAYS WEAR LATEX while doing it. Unless both partners are properly tested clean and trust enough each other so one will admit if a risk arise due to cheating.

Married ?!

[DrYak]

Sorry but what marriage has to do with it ?

Marriage is not a 100% guarantee that the other person will never ever happen to cheat and be at risk at bringing some nasty bug home.
You may make romantic promises of trust and fidelity on the "Big Day", but we're still animals with deeply rooted instincts and you can't guarantee that nothing will ever go wrong over the course of a whole life.

Doing tests for both (non necessarily married/engaged) partners, trusting enough each other that a partner will openly admit cheating and potential risks of bringing bugs home, that is a slightly more efficient strategy.

Superbug?

[Jake S Griffin]

Well I for one welcome our new gonorrhean overlords...

No one here needs to worry.

[Philip K Dickhead]

It requires copulation, to be infected. /. is immune to this transmission vector.