26% of New Yorkers Have Genital Herpes
Tuesday, June 10, 2008 at 01:54PM That’s progressive for you.
Sex in the city isn’t quite as glamorous or inconsequential as Hollywood and free-sexers want us to believe. 26% of all New York City adults have genital herpes compared with 19% nationally. Not only that, Herpes doubles the risk that a person exposed to HIV will contract it. According to the New York City Health Department:
The Health Department reported today that more than a fourth of adult New Yorkers are infected with Herpes Simplex Virus-2, the virus that causes genital herpes. HSV-2 is a lifelong sexually-transmitted infection that can cause painful genital sores in a minority of cases, but most people have no recognizable symptoms. The prevalence of the condition is also concerning because it facilitates the spread of HIV – doubling the risk that a person will contract HIV when exposed to it. HSV-2 can also be serious when transmitted to newborns, although these cases are rare.
Genital herpes isn’t the only risk facing sexually active New Yorkers. The Health Department received more than 65,000 reports of sexually transmitted infection in 2007 alone. Rates of gonorrhea, chlamydia, and infectious syphilis are above the national average and, as the Health Department reported last fall, HIV infection is increasing among young men who have sex with men.
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While the NY City number is higher than the National average, don't you find it almost as distrubing to your sensitivities that 1 in 5 Americans also has HSV2? Further, when you consider that the incidence of HSV2 is higher among people who have HIV, one would normally expect higher levels of HSV2 in NYC. My point? I wonder what your point is (of course, other than indicting NYC because it is "progressive" - a point which I actually dispute because I know plenty of people are NY'ers who are not liberals or progressives). Do you know many people who live in or are from NY City?
My point is that there is more to the "free-sex" mentality than free sex. There are unintended consequences to immoral lifestyles. The glamorization of Sex in the City does our entire country a disservice and is frankly very fake.
I am a NJer. I was born and raised in NJ and lived 45 minutes from NYC and have had friends and relatives from NYC in my lifetime. Although I was last there a year and 1/2 ago, no one can convince me that there are "plenty of NY'ers who are not liberals or progressives".
There's a reason this story comes from New York City and not Kansas City. Liberalism destroys life and humanity and NYC is a bastion of liberalism.
I was wrong baout the relationship between HIV and HSV2. I have plenty of friends in NYC who are not liberals, including my daughter.
I'm sure there are non-liberals in NYC. A portion of them are included in the 73% of NYers that don't have herpes.
But you have to admit that the majority of NYers are liberal. You don't have to look further than their elected officials to see that. Also, walking down the street will meet you with various anti-Bush nutcases in signs and handing out pamphlets. This is typical.
Being anti-Bush doesn't immediately qualify someone as a "liberal nut case."
No? "Anti-Bush"ism is a condition in which someone is proud to hate or loathe the president of the United States. I can say I have never hated a Clinton, Obama or any other Democrat. What makes someone who is willing to stand on a street corner, or wear a hateful t-shirt, etc. to proclaim their hatred for a sitting president is an unhealthy emotional condition. It is indeed nutty.
I should have written it like this Amy...having a negative opinion of some of the policy and strategy decisions made by President Bush and his Adminstration does not make you a "liberal nutcase." Disagreement does not translate to "hatred." Admittedly in retrospect (and frankly, I'm on record before the fact), some of the strategic decisions made since Septmeber 11th were faulty. It is easy to look back, but the fact that mistakes were made. That statement by no means implies that I "hate" Bush or that I am anti-American. Mistakes were made. Some of the mistakes might have been avoidable, others were not.