Nor does it help that some believe they can cure themselves of venereal diseases by sleeping with a virgin.
Between 1939 and 1941 the number of new cases of venereal disease reported from clinics in England nearly doubled.
There are venereal diseases that can be spread even with the use of a condom including the Human papillomavirus or HPV.
Tests on animals suggest that the substance may offer similar protection against other venereal diseases, including herpes, gonorrhoea and genital warts.
That would not be surprising, since the vaginal lesions that other venereal diseases produce should make excellent entry points for the virus.
Venereal Ablution rooms were established in all barracks, and soldiers who had "risked infection" were ordered to attend for treatment within 24 hours.
They must have thought I had caught something more serious, like pneumonia or a venereal disease, and would remain in bed for a week or so.
Walk the Freedom Trail, do Sherman's march to the sea, reenact the life of Johnny Appleseed, recreate the discoveries of Lewis and Clark, but without all the venereal disease.
Although it is true in the Tasmanian devil and also in dogs, there is this cancer called Canine Transmissible Venereal Tumor, CTVT, that is essentially a sexually transmitted disease.
The Grand Tour has been a tradition of newly rich countries ever since young British aristocrats took to the Continent in the eighteenth century, picking up languages, antiques, and venereal disease.
In 1917 at a meeting of the Imperial War Conference, it was acknowledged that venereal diseases were not being contained either in France or England and they were seriously impeding the fighting capacity of the forces.
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