The Coli is talking legalizing prostitution, but babies being born burned
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I should read before commenting but half-decent prenatal care should catch and treat this easily. Something is off.
That’s the point. Pro prostitution types always say “well if everyone practices perfect safe sex and gets regular checkups there’s no problem” meanwhile we have epidemics of every major STD precisely because people won’t practice perfect safe sex.
Personal promiscuity is responsible for these stats not professional workers. You conflating different things. The presumption is made that these rates are being driven by prostitution not cheating and lack of condom use
STDs rates are popping like thottery
Y'all keep looking to other countries for guidance in your position, but NEVER even consider that americas unquenchable thirst for capitalism makes it a different beast. Even in america if you legalize prostitution, the greed here is so vicious, people will still go about in a compromising way. Weed is being legalize in many states now, and the illegal weed market is still growing and thriving in those same states.
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You know there are actual subs here for more serious topics? Why are you expecting that in the Licker room?
According to the coli, all women are prostitutes.
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You think things will get *better* with legal prostitution?
Yes.
This is not a discussion about morals or personal preferences, it's about public health and the working conditions for prostitutes and there the data is very clear, prohibition makes everything worse.
'Shocking' Rise in STIs During COVID Alarms Health Workers
In 2021, U.S. syphilis cases hit the highest number in 70 years.
www.pewtrusts.org
Cases of congenital syphilis in the United States climbed by a whopping 184% between 2017 and 2021, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But that’s only one element of an explosive rise in sexually transmitted infections, known as STIs, which one expert in the field describes as an “out-of-control pandemic” that began in the 2010s and became super-charged during the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to preliminary numbers from the CDC, the overall number of syphilis cases, which includes congenital syphilis and syphilis transmitted through sexual contact, rose nearly 70% between 2017 and 2021. It increased by nearly 28% in 2021 alone, the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In 2021, the rate of syphilis in the U.S. reached 51.5 cases per 100,000 people, the highest rate since 1990 and the greatest number of overall cases (171,074) since 1951.
The increase in congenital syphilis has been even steeper than for syphilis transmitted through sexual contact, 184.5% over five years and 24.1% between 2020 and 2021. In 2020, the last year for which the CDC has data, there were 149 stillbirths or infant deaths associated with congenital syphilis, more than triple the number from four years earlier.
“You can argue that every case is one that can be prevented,” Leandro Mena, director of the CDC’s Division of STD Prevention, said in an interview with Stateline. They represent “a failure in our system,” he added. (Forty-two states and Washington, D.C., require at least one syphilis screening during pregnancy, although that occurs only if the patient is receiving prenatal care.)
Cases of chlamydia and gonorrhea also saw significant increases between 2020 and 2021, though not nearly as steep as those for syphilis. Like syphilis, the infection rates for chlamydia and gonorrhea have been rising for years, though the increases for chlamydia have been more uneven than the other two.
Overall, 2.5 million people in the United States were reported to have been infected with one of those three STIs in 2021. The CDC has not yet reported 2021 HIV numbers.