Venereal Disease - not a sex thread!

[tcfrogs]

Well, not a sex thread, per se. Been watching a lot of M*A*S*H lately. Love that show, and watched it a lot when I was growing up. I noticed a lot of VD jokes on the show lately. Got me wondering...

Did people really use condoms much back in the days before Herpes & HIV/AIDS? Seemed like VD was just something you dealt with when you got it. Penicillin was the easy antidote, I believe.

Anyone have any input here, as I am, as always, just curious...

[Mojambo]

1. I think only sailors used them. n/t

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2. condoms were regarded as birth control, not std protection

and yes, getting an std meant, damn, no sex for 10 days while i'm on penicillin.

er, not that i would know anything about that.

[JimmyJazz]

3. That 's not true. In the days of WWII, movies were shown

regarding the use of condoms and the spread of STDs. The army gave out condoms and public service information.

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4. oh sure, it was KNOWN to prevent stds

i'm just saying that people were very reluctant to use them for that reason. the whole idea that you were being intimate with someone, yet had to have a sheet of plastic between, or that you had to insult them or kill the mood with the idea of stds. it really took an incurable, lethal std to overcome people's reluctance to think about these things.

[JimmyJazz]

5. agreed. totally. The information was available though and I

thought that was the question.