Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) --- causes warts in general, (just like herpes viruses cause cold sores).... when those viruses get "in the wrong place" they become "genital warts" and "genital herpes" and cause a lot of damage and problems (e.g. sterility).Joz said:
BTW... did I mention herpes? Remember genital herpes was a problem in the early 1980s, but then was eclipsed by AIDS. The problem with genital herpes is that women who have this condition cannot deliver their babies vaginally. Otherwise, they risk passing the virus to their newborn and the result can be blindness or worse. Genital herpes probably wasn't a problem until oral sex became popular (with the rise of feminism which saw oral sex as a type of sexual liberation. I believe older women (i.e. over the age of 65) don't engage in it as often as younger women (but then that's my observation and I may be wrong). The reason again being that older women grew up without women's liberation and the sexual revolution while younger women did....
BTW2 .... I may be wrong on this one too. But I also believe that group sex was once a practice of the upper classes. By once, I mean ancient times, along with the practice of homosexuality. Why? The common people were just trying to stay alive; they didn't have time for all that nonsense! Homosexuality was practiced by the Athenian nobility, for instance, group sex was practiced in the Roman Emperor's court. Class mobility and other factors probably allowed these practices to become more widespread and with them, the accompanying threat of spreading venereal diseases. Of course, we only have records of the upper classes and the nobility from ancient times, it is possible that peasants engaged in this type of behavior too, but my guess is either not at all or very rarely.... the nobility had a lot of time on their hands..... I'll have to think about this.... there are a lot of parallels between the attitudes and practices of the ancient nobility and the Left.... I wonder if it's more than just a coincidence?
