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Who's Got the Syph? We've Got the Syph! (Yeeeeah, We Got It!)

Emily Farris — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:04:00 GMT

Reported cases of sexually transmitted diseases—namely, syphilis and chlamydia—are on the rise.

According to a 2007 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report, updated earlier this month, chlamydia infections rose to 1.1 million in the United States, and rates of syphilis have been rising for seven years.

Believe it or not, this could actually be good news.

Some believe that numbers are are growing not because more people are becoming infected, but because more people are being screened and tested. If that is the case, hopefully the numbers will begin to drop off when those testing positive can treat their STDs and prevent their spread.

[Daily Toreador: Rise in syphilis, clamydia rates concern health officials]

Art Students the Biggest Sluts, Study Says

Emily Farris — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:37:00 GMT

According to a new study out of Australia, and an even more disturbing article about said study, art students are the most sexually active and know the least about STD's.

A pilot study at the University of Sydney asked 185 students aged 16 to 25 about their sexual history and awareness of the sexually transmitted disease chlamydia, the national AAP news agency reported.

Arts students were “more likely to be sexually active and to report having little or no knowledge of chlamydia,” said the study, published in the journal Sexual Health.

“Males in the study were less likely to have had sex as a group compared to the group of females in the sample.” Science students were also less likely to have had sex compared to their counterparts in other faculties, the study found.

What sluts! The best part, however, is the blogger's prespective on all of this:

Parents take note of this Australian study. Here, finally, is the reason to discourage your teenage daugther not to study art: she’ll be having sex, lots of it, not studying and she may even catch sexually transmitted diseases. I don’t think this finding comes as much suprise to parents.

We don't know. We've known some slu-tay physics majors in our day.

[Minor Matters: Art students very sexually active, science nerds study]

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In the News: Crushing on Al Gore, Bad News for Chlamydia Lovers

sarahhepola — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:14:00 GMT

Al Gore wins Nobel Peace Prize. Al Gore is so totally laid right now.

Chlamydia can make men infertile. Please, kids. Use a condom with Al Gore.

Ohhh, we get it now. That Vatican official was only pretending to be gay.

Credit card debt? You may be Lindsay Lohan. Sweet! Have a drink.

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