tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post88585886896868105..comments2024-03-22T11:14:05.861-04:00Comments on UncleBob's Treehouse: "DID PENICILLIN KICKSTART THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION?"Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16046202647270439670noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-51734893903336857072016-01-13T19:23:08.381-05:002016-01-13T19:23:08.381-05:00
What did people do before antibiotics? Surely no...<br /><br />What did people do before antibiotics? Surely not every time someone was injured or cut did they became infected. What about cleaning wounds and washing with alcohol?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-9234922701498350282016-01-12T17:43:40.752-05:002016-01-12T17:43:40.752-05:00I think you are right that the success of penicill...I think you are right that the success of penicillin with syphilis gave people a false sense of security regarding other diseases as well, especially Aids. In any case it looks like we might be rapidly approaching the end of the age of antibiotics.Robert What?https://www.blogger.com/profile/03863449539859132763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-44691552218706844512016-01-11T05:31:55.507-05:002016-01-11T05:31:55.507-05:00I'd heard the sexual revolution had its beginn...I'd heard the sexual revolution had its beginnings in World War 2, with women going to work en masse, supporting themselves without men's help and using sex to entice the most attractive men of a shrinking dating pool. I had also heard there was a severe uptick of unwed pregnancies right after WWII. It's possible female independence was the main driving force in the Sexual Revolution. The Syphilis Cure and the Pill just allowed it to continue indefinitely as people were able to avoid the traditional long term consequences of out of wedlock activity.TroperAnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-16758688857290404732016-01-08T17:23:46.286-05:002016-01-08T17:23:46.286-05:00I can't remember where I saw it, but somewhere...I can't remember where I saw it, but somewhere I read a claim that before the mid-40s, even male homosexual circles were more sedate- sexual activity mostly consisted of hand-jobs and the like, more often than it did full-blown sodomy with hundreds of strangers.<br /><br />"<i>Francis postulates that the risky behaviors encouraged by the collapse of syphilis may have contributed to the spread of HIV in later years.</i>"<br /><br />Even long before HIV showed up, lots of gay men in the 70s had severely compromised immune systems. Turns out having sex with 500 or 1,000 promiscuous strangers is a good way to catch a lot of diseases, and having 7 or 8 weird diseases at the same time tends to overwhelm even an otherwise <i>healthy</i> immune system: http://virusmyth.com/aids/hiv/bnclapdoctor.htmAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com