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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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> Something changed starting around 2012

One hypothesis to consider: the Affordable Care Act which became effective in 2010. It may be that somehow the healthcare changes that followed had an adverse effect, and that it took 2 years for increased infection rates to compound and begin to be reported.

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Once again, PrEP is a miracle drug and future generations will be baffled as to why we were so slow in adopting it.

Or, as humans have in many other epochs, they will recognize the superiority of life long pair bonding and understand that sexuality and human dignity are related in a way that the self serving cultural relativists, and most contemporary economists, are unable to conceive.

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Once again, PrEP is a miracle drug and future generations will be baffled as to why we were so slow in adopting it.

No, it's not. All medications have risks, and it has its own slew of potential side effects: https://www.rxlist.com/truvada-side-effects-drug-center.htm

This approach is like putting promiscuous people on constant antibiotic treatment to avoid bacterial venereal diseases. It doesn't make sense long-term.

It seems as though in the backlash against complete puritanism towards sexual activity, many people have moved too far and started implying that it is completely safe. It's not, even if you practice it "safely", and it's still important to emphasize that.

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Once again, PrEP is a miracle drug and future generations will be baffled as to why we were so slow in adopting it.

Or, as humans have in many other epochs, they will recognize the superiority of life long pair bonding and understand that sexuality and human dignity are related in a way that the self serving cultural relativists, and most contemporary economists, are unable to conceive.

Oh cool, someone who knows what is objectively the best.

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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.

it may be copyright infringement, but it's not fraud

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

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

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Once again, PrEP is a miracle drug and future generations will be baffled as to why we were so slow in adopting it.

It's not baffling at all, it costs $1,800 for 30 days worth of Truvada.

Descovy has less side-effects than Truvada, but Gilead conveniently timed Descovy's indication for PrEP to align with Truvada's patent expiration. Truvada is particularly hard on the kidneys, and can cause kidney damage or failure. Descovy doesn't put its users at risk of kidney damage.

The wholesale cost of generic Truvada in the developing world is $6 to $8.

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> Something changed starting around 2012 One hypothesis to consider: the Affordable Care Act which became effective in 2010. It may be that somehow the healthcare changes that followed had an adverse effect, and that it took 2 years for increased infection rates to compound and begin to be reported.

Do you have any suggestion as to how that piece of legislation could possibly have an impact on how much sex young people have and with what partners?

I fail to see any kind of chain of events here where one might lead to the other.

"We wouldn't have had sex if it weren't for Obamacare." doesn't exactly seem like something you'd be likely to hear.

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