Saturday, July 2, 2011

A Slideshow On America's War Against STD


The Enemy in Your Pants -- Mother Jones

The military’s decades-long war against STDs.

Army medical records dating back to the Revolutionary War show significant soldier losses due to venereal diseases. In a two-year period during the Civil War, the Union Army documented 100,000 cases of gonorrhea. During World War I, the Army lost 7 million person-days and discharged more than 10,000 men because they were ailing from STDs. Once Penicillin kicked in in the mid-1940s, such infections were treatable. But as a matter of national security, the military started distributing condoms and aggressively marketing prophylactics to the troops in the early 20th century.

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My Comment: LOL Just say no.

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