Practice safer sex, people!
The CDC's biannual STD Prevention Conference is underway, and it sounds like this year's sexiest government seminar has taken a dire tone: sexually transmitted infection rates in the US are alarming high, and top public health experts are sounding the alarms.cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, and congenital syphilis. Per that same data, there was a 26 percent spike in syphilis cases from 2020 to 2021, and last year also saw the highest syphilis case count since 1948.
That's bad. Very bad. Or, as David Harvey, executive director of the National Coalition of STD Directors,Of course, this is where it gets very easy to toss out some flawed Just Don't Have Sex advice, but that's really not the answer here. Sure, abstinence is one way of avoiding STIs, but consensual sex is an important, healthy, and wonderful part of life and the human experience.
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