Venereal Disease

Monday, November 23, 2009

It is said that Americans won the last Great War but lost the peace. The word got round that nobody need be worried about getting venereal disease because of penicillin. So everyone forget to worry. They also forget about wearing rubber sheaths. The result was rampant V.D.

Syphilis and gonorrhea can be cured in most cases by a few injections of antibiotics. But as a result people have become careless and the fact is the rate of V.D. among all categories of persons all over the world is going up enormously. It is especially high among young people who are often too afraid of parental wrath to go to a doctor. It is said that V.D. is increasing faster in the United States than in any other country in the world. Mobility, leisure, affluence and personal freedom have created perfect conditions for the spread of V.D. The pill has also contributed; in the old days when a rubber sheath was widely used, it gave some protection against V.D.