The Future Impact of STDs (Sexually Transmissible Diseases)

In the US, roughly 10 million new cases of STDs occur every year - and the proportions are similar for most western nations.

The projected future costs of this are hard to estimate but the consensus for the US is about 10 billion dollars per year!
This is just the direct cost.. It doesn't consider the damage done to peoples quality of life!
Researchers are now seeing the emergence of a gonorrhea that's resistant to cephalosporin, the last known effective antibiotic! The almost inevitable spread of this strain will be catastrophic!
Most of the population has little sympathy for victims of STDs. They judge them as "Sex in the City" types who deserve what they get.

Two types of sexual loyalty.. "Eagle types" vs "Rabbit types"
'Eagle types' have one or two partners for life. If their partner is ever lost, there will be a grieving period. They can maintain 'sexual magic' with one partner for 80 years.
'Rabbit types' may have a hundred partners. There is never any 'loyalty'. Their 'sexual magic' always fades after a few nights.

Many of the victims of STDs are not 'Rabbit Types'.. Many are faithful wives ('Eagle types') whose partner has been sleeping around ('Rabbit types')
Many innocent 20 year-olds, who thought they had found a life-partner, were in fact the victim of a lying, serial flirt who enjoyed a 7 night stand and then left - leaving them with an STD.

90% of taxpayers are "Eagle types" and should never catch an STD - but they are the ones who will have to pay for the minority "Rabbit types" who do "sleep around"
Human costs aside, the direct costs alone are unaffordable and something has to change. Our mind-sets have to change.
The peer pressure needs to be re-directed toward "Eagle behavior" rather than the exaltation of "Rabbit behavior"

Condoms are NOT the answer..

With established couples, the failure rate for condoms is very low, about one in a hundred.
However, for first timers, the failure rate for condoms is widely agreed by doctors to be as high as one in five.
For a nervous teenager, that is equivalent to telling them that 'Russian Roulette' is safe.
Why is the failure rate for first-timers so high? Use your imagination! - and the following math..
Nervousness girl = zero lubrication + Excited male = busted..
Nervous boy = Prem.Ej + Attempts to continue = condom comes right off internally and is scrunched.
There are several more reasons young people have high failure rates, but lets stop kidding ourselves, condoms are not safe for anyone other than established 'Eagle Types'.

Eagle Sex..

It becomes very obvious that the only safe sex is Eagle type sex.
That doesn't mean one partner for life. (Eagles can loose a partner and, after a grieving period, will find another.)
It means caring for your partner and trying to be loyal to them for as long as you humanly can.
It works like this..
1. Two people notice each other and start dating..
2. After a few months - They believes they could be soul-mates and promise to love each other for ever and ever!
3. Couple gets sexually active and the bond becomes extremely deep. They try really hard to be faithful.
4. One partner looses self-control, becomes abusive and the other is forced to leave..
5. They both grieve for a few months before they return to step one with a new found person.

This million year old practice can accommodate multiple partners and is totally Safe-Sex..
Notice the grieving period - that is the key to preventing 99% of STDs.. After leaving one partner, they don't sleep with anyone else until AFTER the incubation period, they won't pass anything on because any 'condition' will be obvious by then.
"Grieving over" may sound quaint, but, if your previous partner was not worth grieving over then WHY WERE YOU WITH THEM?  How is that Honorable? All women love being honored - they all love 'commitment'.

A Short Term solution.. (Eagle behavior is a long-term solution.)

As mentioned above, 90% of taxpayers are "Eagle types" and should never catch an STD - they therefore should NOT have to pay these enormous costs..  The minority "Rabbit types" who do "sleep around" should pay the majority of those costs. That should sound fare to everybody - except the Rabbit types.
We already have massive penalties for carelessly infecting someone with AIDS..
Carelessly infecting someone with any STD should also have financial penalties equivalent to the compensation for having disfigured them.

AIDS is ONE of the STD family.. No one doubts the need for some 'rules' to prevent the transmission of AIDS.. We are proposing that those same rules be debated, researched and legislated - and applied to all the serious STDs.
What possible rules?

Airline crashes do far less damage to people than STDs. Airplanes have to have regular checkups!  Failure to report a problem or failure to do the checkup is a criminal offense with massive fines. Why not apply those rules to STD carriers. Who is a carrier? Potentially everyone except Eagle types! Sex-workers already have to comply with those kind of rules - and they face penalties if they skip checkups.

Fear of "Big Brother" legislation..
Would society approve of forcing ordinary folk to have regular STD checkups? Not until the epidemic gets even worse than it is.. Taxpayers would rather be patient with the reckless than risk unleashing "Judge Dread" style policing. (Hitlers 'brown shirts' truly believed they were eliminating a disease!) ("Societies response to a crisis often wrests the scales of justice from the 'blind Lady'" - concept from 'Judge Dread')
Just as parents would rather 'pay the bill' for their childrens recklessness than report that behavior to the police, taxpayers would rather just pay the bill than try to legislate against recklessness.
The financial bill, however, is becoming more than we can afford to pay - and strong measures need to be considered.

If you discovered that 40% of your village had AIDS, how would you protect the remaining 60%?
Its not rocket science.. The epidemic response teams rehearse this continually.
Measures to contain any disease outbreak always require some restriction on personal rights and always cause outrage in the "Do as I please" groups.

Handing out condoms is futile.. Handing out Papal advice to stay celibate is ludicrous.

Infection only occurs on a change of partner.. Eagle types are safe..  Steady gay couples are safe..  Even a steady triangle is safe..
The danger point is when a new partner enters a relationship.
Like the airline and the sex industry, you must have pre-flight checkups. It should be illegal to jump into someone elses bed without a clean bill of health. Controversial as that sounds, the lives of 60% of the village are in danger! There is no other way.
That 40% example is an extreme case.. (Although, if you take the 90% Eagle types out of the picture, the 40% is a realistic number!)
The STD situation is extreme - What policies should be considered?
We will be calling on wide consultation with civic leaders and academics - there must be open debate on these containment methods.

Some possible suggestions..
* Compulsory annual checkups for the under 50s?
* A national registry for those found to be positive. And a court enforced trace and testing of all their partners.
* A large financial penalty for passing on an STD for those on the registered list.
* This penalty should be equivalent to that for "grievous bodily harm". It should be collectively large enough to significantly offset the future health-care costs the Eagle type taxpayer will have to pay.
* Our broad principle of "The reckless or careless should pay for the consequences - Not the taxpayer" will naturally alter the mind-set of the careless.

These methods could work.. Do you have a better idea? Lets hear it.