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Public-Health Puzzle: Young People Having Less Sex, Contracting More STDs

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Re: Public-Health Puzzle: Young People Having Less Sex, Contracting More STDs

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Can't read article but solving this theoretical (and perhaps now real) puzzle is the primary story in the relatively poor book "More Sex is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics" which came out in 2008. Don't bother with the book, it's essentially a lamer freakonomics, but it's interesting that the central story has come up.

Basically if you have many to many pairing up (many one person with one or two partners), there may be less mixing, and less transmission.

In a one to many pairing (one person with ten partners) you can more easily transmit disease even if the total number of pairings is fewer.

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You can bypass the paywall by using the "web" button with HTTP referer/referrer spoofing turned off, or you can click here for a raw pastebin of the article: https://pastebin.com/raw/i7du0Jfy

I think copying copyrighted material from place to another is a fraud.

Re: Public-Health Puzzle: Young People Having Less Sex, Contracting More STDs

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I’m not saying it’s causation, but the timing is amusing.

Article

> “Something changed starting around 2012,” said Gail Bolan, director of the CDC division of STD prevention. “We’ve seen dramatic increases each year in both males and females.”

Wikipedia

> Tinder was launched in 2012 within startup incubator Hatch Labs,[7][8] a joint venture of IAC and mobile development firm Xtreme Labs.[9] By 2014, Tinder was registering about one billion "swipes" per day.[10]

Re: Public-Health Puzzle: Young People Having Less Sex, Contracting More STDs

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Can't read article but solving this theoretical (and perhaps now real) puzzle is the primary story in the relatively poor book "More Sex is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics" which came out in 2008. Don't bother with the book, it's essentially a lamer freakonomics, but it's interesting that the central story has come up. Basically if you have many to many pairing up (many one person with one or two pa…

And there is a good reason for more one-to-many pairings: more choices. Back in the day less desirable partners had more chances because of proximity. Today it's easier to search for partners (for the same reason it's easier to shop), so more desirable people have more choices.
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