By:Ventura

STD, sexually transmitted diseases have been called the 21st century plague.

Sexually transmitted disease includes well known diseases like gonnorrhea and syphilis, but also genital warts, genital herpes and chlamydia.

The stigma of what used to be called Venereal Diseases has largely gone, partly because everyone knows someone who has had to visit the STD clinic. Nice girls catch STDs, too.

STDs are transmitted by sexual contact. The more people you have sexual contact with, the greater your chance of having sex with someone who has an STD and the greater the chance that you will be infected too. You can catch an STD if the first person you have sexual intercourse with is infected, so it is not necessarily a sign of sexual licence.

Most Sexually Transmitted Diseases respond to treatment if caught in the early stages. Some, like syphilis and gonorrhoea respond to antibiotics. Genital warts may need to be frozen off with liquid nitrogen. Not all hepatitis......

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