#syphillis rising

[hislittleraincloud]

Reason #392737482229378 why I'm glad I'm not a teen or young adult rn:

...Y'all are fuckin' gross. (Not just the young ones, but anyone, and anyone you're sleeping with.)

Y'all aren't wrapping it up, or you're fucking too many people, or too many of the wrong people (who never wrapped it up before...thanks Tindr and Grindr). Syphilis was on the decline back in my day because we practiced safer sex due to the AIDS epidemic. What has to happen to tell you to practice it?

I met one of my older men because I was an AIDS/HIV activist at my high school who was very, very fucking vocal about safer sex (because there's no such thing as "safe sex", only safer sex). I made the papers because of it, and we worked together on a project that was geared towards young people practicing safer sex.

It's ironic since we didn't use protection, however we both had complete STD panels before we started fucking (we were both clean). I still remember our exchange of results in the car...it was surreal even for me. W (his name began with a W, yes 💀) was the one with cystic fibrosis, so he was also sterile (up to 98% of men with CF are sterile/infertile).

I lucked out with him...but in this post-everything world, I wouldn't risk any of that now...because y'all are gross. Stop being gross. Wrap it up 💀

#stds #stis #syphillis #syphillis rising #that should be a name for an action film on stds #y'all are gross #dirty people spreading dirty shit

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[whatmack]

A thought: Jean used to play piano back in France but hasn't played since being taken to the nest (but he secretly shared a love of classical music with Kevin). And with his fingers having been broken so many times by Riko, never healing quite right, he's afraid he won't get his hands to work in the right way for piano anymore. Of course Jeremy somehow discovers Jean's past love for piano and picks up a small electric one to put in their dorm and gently encourages Jean to start playing again.

“There is a story about a classical composer named Robert Schumann. Stop me if you’ve heard this before,” Jean said. 

The dry, blunted edges of Jean’s vowels were weighted down with irony. Jeremy had heard the names of Mozart, and Bach, and Chopin, when Jean had arrived in California, but like a one-night stand, he had known little else. The way he described music put Jean in that mind, actually: just as a televised barfly might say, the one with the--, Jeremy would spread his hands wide and ask Jean if Beethoven’s Fifth was the one with the big booms, or call The Queen of the Night’s aria a cute little tune. It had taken months for Jean to realize that Jeremy was laying it on thicker in order to get a rise out of him. (Jean had spent most of the time at Abigail Winfield’s house in a haze of painkillers and disbelief, dumbly absorbing daytime television. He had no better understanding of the way things worked in America; but he could sing the George Lopez theme from memory.) “Oh, I can stand to hear it again,” Jeremy said. He was smiling. For Jeremy Knox, that was the default state. He took Jean’s right hand in his own, where they were sitting cross-legged on Jeremy’s bed, and turned it over to stroke his suntanned thumb along Jean’s heartline. It tickled. How very strange.  Jean was not used to things that didn’t hurt. (Still.) To keep from falling into it, Jean looked down at his other hand, resting curled in his lap as much as it was able. It was his non-dominant hand, and had only needed to be able to close enough to hold a raquet, as Riko had been wont to remind him. He matched Kevin, now. Rather, Kevin matched him. “The story,” Jeremy prompted. Jean cleared his throat. “Yes. The story. Schumann’s teacher, you see, was, more interested in teaching his own daughter, Clara, then wasting time on the layabout youth Schumann had been before he took it upon himself to study. To master piano, Schumann would have to work hard, and on his own. So he invented a device to strengthen his fingers-- weights attached to wires inside a cigar box, which he would pull with his fingers one by one.” A prick of doubt. “I think. That may not be-- I may not be remembering correctly.” Jeremy edged forward so his knees were bumping Jean’s. The endless swirl of the past flickered, and then, as Jean wrapped his fingers around Jeremy’s wrist, faded to the piecemental afterimage of a dream. There, but not so present. Jean looked at the contrast of Jeremy’s dark skin under Jean’s darker, offered so easily, without pity. He felt Jeremy’s pulse under his fingertips. The thumb has its own pulse, Jean reminded himself, absently as he always did, when he thought of it; it cannot be used to measure a heart rate.  “It ruined his fingers. Destroyed their dexterity. Two fingers on his right hand were paralyzed. The very device he had created to help achieve his piano career had ended it. Of course, he went on to become a brilliant composer, so perhaps not all was lost.” The last was an attempt at humor. Jean was getting better at this gentler kind, counterpoint to the stinging, minutely targeted barbs of the Nest. It left Jean lightheaded. When Jeremy laughed, a warm and unplanned thing, Jean felt his lungs inflate again. “That’s horrible,” Jeremy said. “Not the composer thing! About his hands. It isn’t fair.” Jean shrugged. “It’s also possible his fingers stiffened up due to treatment for syphillis. I learned that after I had stopped playing.” Jeremy laughed again, louder, and the room was bright for a moment. He sobered to pull his hand back into his own space, taking Jean’s with it, the ugly scars incongruous over the Trojan red of his sweatpants. “But you’re going to start again.” “Maybe. It if turns out to not be possible, there’s no sense in wasting my time .” “There would be,” Jeremy insisted. He wanted to say more, Jean could tell in the way he rocked back and forth on his hipbones, but he subsided.  “When I start,” Jean said. He swallowed. This was important. Even if his throat was dry as dust, he needed Jeremy to understand it. “You can’t listen.” “Ever?” He wouldn’t, if Jean said never, Jean knew. Was starting to believe.  (Very good, Jean’s mother had said, arching her fingers over Jean’s to help him reach the keys. It was a stretch, but a pleasant one, especially when it made his mother smile. Up and down the scale, like this. Soon you will be playing concert halls, no? My little Debussy.) “Later. If it works. I’ll tell you when,” Jean promised, and had to close his eyes to the transparency of joy on Jeremy’s face.

#jerejean #my fics #h m #i want to get back into classical...get into it properly this time. #i've got good headphones now....................h mmmm #Anonymous #oh jean my love my dear #schumann's life just went differently than he had planned. and so will urs #(jeremy voice: what's his name? that one composer? busey? da bussy?) #(jean in mingled amusement and horror: i don't think you should be allowed to have ears anymore captain knox) #(jeremy putting music on when friends are over at the apartment: oh this is my boyfriend's favorite composer. gary da bussy) #(jean's voice muffled from the other room: ive been trying to divorce him but we're not even engaged. did you want chicken or tofu)

[obscurehistoricalinterests]

Repossessing the Body: Transgressive Desire in “Carmilla” and “Dracula” (III)

By Elizabeth Signorotti (1996)

Part I - Part II

Thesis: Carmilla is a story of female empowerment, and Dracula is a patriarchal response to it.

Repossessing the Body: Transgressive Desire in “Carmilla” and “Dracula” (part III)

Laura’s father is equally ineffectual as a protector of women. On the evening Carmilla disappears from the schloss (another breach of the separate sphere ideology, in which women are “expected to isolate [themselves] within the home” [Senf 55]), Laura and her maids “grew frightened... [and] rang the bell long and furiously. If my father’s room had been at that side of the house,” Laura says, “we would have called him up at once to our aid. But alas! He was quite out of hearing.” The physical remoteness of her father’s room mirrors his removal from all transactions involving either Laura or Carmilla. Le Fanu emphasizes Papa’s ineffectuality by locating him at the schloss’ perimeter as well as the narrative’s edge. Realizing his disempowered state, Laura “began to cool a little, and soon recovered [her] sense sufficiently to dismiss the men” she had summoned. They, like Spielsdorf and Papa, can offer nothing vital.

Carmilla’s sexual possession of Laura foils Papa’s attempts to marry her to General Spielsdorf, a match that could reestablish the male bond and the male exchange of women. By the time Spielsdorf returns to Styria, Laura’s illness is visible. Her father laments, “I wish our good friend, the General, had chosen any other time; that is, I wish you had been perfectly well to receive him.” Laura’s father fears her malady will reduce her value on the husband market, yet he still hopes Spielsdorf is “thinking of claiming the [Karnstein] titles and estates.” Her father says this “gaily,” Laura tells us, “but the General did not recollect the laugh, or even the smile;... [instead] he looked grave and even fierce.” Spielsdorf realizes that Papa has no right to “transact” his daughter, who has already assumed that right and made an exchange with Carmilla. Although Veeder argues that Laura laments her exclusion from the “relationship among males” in which her father participates, no evidence for this exists in the text. On the contrary, Laura relishes the liberating feelings resulting from her alliance with Carmilla: the “gentle, and somehow not unwelcome possession” and the “peculiar cold thrill [against her breast preceding] a sense of exhaustion.” Rather than envying the relationship among males, the two women enjoy the power of female alliances.

Laura’s and Carmilla’s female alliances result in a rejection not only of marriage but of motherhood as well. Senf notes that “during the nineteenth century [it was assumed that] motherhood was a woman’s highest duty.” Their transgressive relationship disrupts the laws of procreation necessary to maintain social order. Le Fanu, however, refrains from making them culpable for their procreative transgression and from condemning his vampiric representation of lesbian desire, leaving “Carmilla” more open-ended than may at first appear.

“Carmilla”‘s resolution follows the traditional means of vampire extermination, but the neat resolution “fails to contain the larger forces of which Carmilla is only a single manifestation.” Realizing that Carmilla is the vampire responsible for the mysterious malady plaguing Styria, Spielsdorf and Papa enact the obligatory staking scene (significantly termed “transfixation” - literally, nailing down something gone wild - by the Catholic church) then burn her body and scatter her ashes in the river. This scene, however, only ambiguously ends Carmilla’s existence. Since Le Fanu suggests “that a vampire’s victims must become vampires themselves,” he raises questions in the reader’s mind “about the ultimate fate of both Laura and Mlle. Rheinfeldt.” Indeed, we learn that “it is the nature of vampires to increase and multiply... according to a ghostly law... [and that a vampire] spectre visits living people in their slumbers; they die, and almost invariably, in the grave, develop into vampires.” Moreover, in the prologue to “Carmilla” the editor of Laura’s story informs us that he “was anxious to reopen the correspondence commenced by Doctor Hesselius, so many years before, with a person so clever and careful as his informant seems to have been. Much to my regret, however, I found that she [Laura] had died in the interval.” By the time the tale reaches its readers, both Laura and Bertha have died, yet presumably they continue to live as ressurected vampires, perpetuating the chain of female alliances begun by Carmilla.

The conclusion to Laura’s tale is as ambiguous as the extermination of Carmilla. During the spring following Carmilla’s transfixation, Laura’s father takes her on a tour through Italy. The year-long tour represents his attempt to reinstate Laura in the male chain of exchange, to reinscribe her into the world of her father and cure her of the lesbian desire she still maintains. But his attempt fails. Laura has tasted the sweet fruit of self-determination and fulfilling desire and does not wish to return to her pre-Carmilla life. She writes that, despite the passage of time, “to this hour the image of Carmilla returns to memory with ambiguous alternations - sometimes the plaful, languid, beautiful girl; sometimes the writhing fiend I saw in the ruined church; and often from a reverie I have started, fancying I heard the light step of Carmilla at the drawing-room door.” Laura ends her account fancying that Carmilla is poised to enter the drawing room. This image suggests her longing for Carmilla to re-enter her, to penetrate her once more. By this point, Laura has changed as a result of her vampiric love. No longer a mere “sign,” she has become a fleshed-out, desiring woman. Far from restoring Laura to her father’s systems of exchange, the conclusion of her narrative confirms the reader’s suspicion that everything Carmilla represents, if not Carmilla herself, remains loose and desirable in Styria.

Like the unframed Karnstein portrait, the entire “Carmilla” narrative is incompletely framed. In the brief prologue the editor comments: “upon a paper attached to the Narrative which follows, Doctor Hesselius has written a rather elaborate note, which he accompanies with a reference to his Essay on the strange subject which the MS. illuminates.” Yet the narrative ends without presenting either Dr. Hesselius’ note or the editor’s concluding remarks. Instead, “Carmilla” ends with Laura’s reverie. The frame that opens the tale is never closed, recalling the lack of closure around Carmilla’s effigy. The prologue’s editor also informs us that Laura was Doctor Hesselius’s “informant,” but Laura’s pointedly addressing her story to a “town lady like you” eliminates the male link between her and her reader and provides a direct route from one woman to another. Le Fanu’s incomplete narrative frame supports the perception of “Carmilla”’s women as free from male systems of control or exchange. Laura’s relationship with Carmilla is not sandwiched between an editor’s and doctor’s comments and then exchanged with the reader; rather, like Spielsdorf’s and Papa’s failed attempts to contain these women, the editor similarly fails to frame them in his narrative. Laura addresses her female reader directly, eliminating any intervening male agent, just as she and Carmilla eliminated the middle-man in their own exchange.

Dracula is Stoker’s response to Le Fanu’s portrayal of female empowerment. If Le Fanu frees his female characters from subject positions in the male kinship system, Stoker decidedly returns his to exchange status and reinstates them in that system. Stoker’s female characters are “supreme gifs” (Levi-Streuss 65) whose exchange finally binds Dracula’s “little band of men” together. In Dracula, Stoker creates what Frederic Jameson would call a “laboratory space” to carry out “experiments” on female characters, ultimately achieving an “imaginary vengeance” against the rising power of women, particularly against women who assert control over their own sexuality. It is usually assumed that Stoker sought vengeance against women in Dracula because of his hostility toward prostitutes who had infected him with tertiary syphillis (see, e.g. Robert Tracy 46). But the root of Stoker’s struggle with women’s sexuality can be traced to his relationship with his wife. In 1878 he married Florence Balcombe, who one year later gave birth to their son, Noel. Stoker’s granddaughter believed that Florence “refused to have sex with Bram” after Noel’s birth, which has led to the perception of her as a “cold,” “aloof” woman who was “very anti-sex” (Farson 213,214). Whether or not she was sexually frigid is debatable. What is clear, though, is that her behavior toward her husband was unconventional - that sexually she did not fulfill her part of the marriage contract. In creating Dracula, then, Stoker was probably less concerned with achieving vengeance against a particular group of women who had infected him than he was with asserting control over a whole range of women, who, like his wife - indeed, like women throughout Victorian England who welcomed the New Woman movement - had violated conventional expectations about women’s sexuality. Rather than embrace sexually self-determining women such as Laura and Carmilla, Stoker placed the women of Dracula firmly under male control and subjected them to severe punishments for any sexual transgression.

Part IV can be found here.

#carmilla #dracula #j sheridan le fanu #bram stoker #vampire #vampire mythos #feminism #empowerment #women #erasure #compulsory femininity #feminist reading

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#RentBoyDotCom #scruff #match Moral Hazard (Formula): NYS Journal on Human Rights: Jane Doe v Prudential ([email protected]) | Rex Tillman GSA Vehicle Purchase Per Annum: 700,000 HIV/AIDS is biological warfare, human guineau pigs (homosexuals, black and latino heterosexuals..not unlike African American Tuskeegee Airmen and Syphillis? Did it ever occur to any of you that a HIPPA Release form allows your personal health data to be pooled with others, like in a clinical trial study? Why did insurance companies initially refuse to issue Health ("pre-existing condition")Life Insurance Plans to people with HIV/AIDS? Why was there a federal ban on stem cell research? The first report of HIV was an article in the New York Times about the "gay cancer" which turned out to be Kaposis Sarcoma (a symptom of AIDS Related Complex). And from there it afflicts heterosexual minorities. Not sure how that happens,but its pretty clear that no one was getting gang raped by monkees in Africa (more likely that SIV, Simean Immunodeficiency Virus, was being tested on chimps, before a human strain (testing of #retroviral vectors in the earliest of preclinical studies of stem cells....#InsertationalMutagenesis" is when the vector used to introduce new genetic information into the parent cell, to be passed to all the daughter cells in hematapoesis, reverts back to its virulent form once in the patient. This was all well documented and known "before the first patient was treated"[1] Twitter.com/motorious_llx | Soon to be Former award winning wall street equity analyst in biotechnology, ceo of my own startup (motorious: Generation X Luxury Goods and Lifestyle Brand), industrial and fashion designer about to launch my own haute couture mens line (in conjunction with the Council of Fashion Designers of America. Our social network of 1 Billion Connected Cars, might be where and how you find your next hookup: bootycall_tv, which I am hoping to license to various dating apps and hookup sites. I am soon to be the proud official owner of the trademark: rentboy.com | I know ... that would make me a major pimp, but i'd consider being the ho . haha). Please have a brain (Im Harvard educated) an possess wit, charm & grace. And check out my social network links before asking me a lot of redundant questions. Twitter.com/OOF_llc Dino_llc et al v NYCHealthSystem, NYCHRA, NYCHA, Medicaid et al GMHC v NIH, FDA and USA. Footnotes: [1] Excerpt from: The Investors' Roadmap To Profitting From The Genomics Revolution. June 4, 1996, by Wolé M. Fayemi and Christopher P. Tihansky (approximately 300 pages). Cover Price: $20,000.00. Before my PDF scan of one page was deleted and my account suspended (@wole_m_fayemi)....Twitter neglecting to take into consideration that I dont give a flying fuck about their bleeding heart, tree hugging liberal (tax and spend: ive learned that the overwhelming majority of case managers and supervisors at HASA who arent corrupt and stealing money from your accounts, aren't qualified to wipe my ass after I take a shit, and are a waste of life, if not taxpayer dollars. I will remind you who Identify as "democrats" that it was the Republican Party which freed the slaves (Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Slayer), George HW Bush who created the Ryan White Care Act, and George 'Dubyah" Bush who earmarked and proposed $60 Billion to fund a clinical trial protocol for anyone afflicted which promises it could be a cure, which was unequivocally REJECTED by the Democratically controlled House and Senate: 10 years ago (we coulda been cured by now). The shit hit the fan when Google blocked me from accessing my gmail and google plus account and Private Youtube channel, pretending that they (and the Goldman Sachs Jewish Mafia...from the 2008 Financial Crisis and Flash Crash, which former Chairman Hank Paulson insanely profited from (after we smoked and fucked, he whispered in my ear: "halfway house" .... W8 a minute! WHAT? you mean split it 50/50 or you think I should go to rehab (NOT) to Janet Yellen, clueless Fed Chair married to a Nobel Prize winning economist, George Ackerloff of Haas School of Business and U Cal Berkeley. All Former President Barack Obama could manage after blowing a few cumulous clowdz was "isnt it big?"?(i dunno, sorta...i was a little too tweaked to remind him that i wasnt really interested in the size of his penis, all of my missing emails and posts: Edward Snowden? Or am I being paramoid? were plagiarized by him during his state of the Union address, yet he invites "Tech Leaders" to meet with him (not a single minority amongst them). You guys had the perfect opportunity to impeach him (and Penny Pritzker, related to my former partner Jay Pritzer, who along with the other partners not quite able to explain how all my cash and equity got embezzled to, leaving me on welfare, unemployed and without any friends for the past 15 years, the past 5 where I have been homeless living in SROs, ALL of my clothing and property have been destroyed, stolen or thrown away) when I was exposed Dick Cheney (former director of the CIA who had a "duck hunting accident"...do I look like a duck to you? Tim Geitner, Hank Paulsen and others of sucking on the glass dick before swallowing mine, after blowing huge cumulous clowdz: @stratus_cirrus , [email protected] which are not to be confused with the Dodge and Chrysler vehicles which used those monikers. bit.ly/Dark_PrinceCharming (GrandPrix.com reports on the aristocratic non ruling class of clowns from Nigeria, like myself...meaning diplomatic immunity from prosecution...hence my decision to start my own organized crime syndicate on crunchbase: Integrated Concept Vehicles Corporation in Nevada (NY NY Vegas: gambling on auto racing, prostitution (RentBoyDotCom profile on match.com, not to be confused with a Scruff Match. Law enforcement can't touch me (or my nationwide #T_Mobile delivery service (with a money back guarantee). #BringingBrownCordsBackIntoStyle This should better put into perspective the movie trailers for: I am Legend, Rise: Planet of the Apes, 24 Hours Later and 24 days later.

#i am legend #rentboy #rentboydotcom #icvc_nevada #icvc_gmbh #icvc_motorious #dino-llc #dino-666 #motorious-isp #moto-guzzi-dino #scruffapp #grindr #ActUpNYC #treatment action group #gmhc #HHCNYC #NYC Council #Steven Banks #Legal Aid NYC #Frankfurt Kurnit Kleiner Selz #Rosenman Colin #Cooley Godward

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I've heard that syphillis is on the rise again???

Yes that’s correct, and if you’re having sex with someone who has sex with men (hope that makes sense) then you’re also at risk. It is particularly nasty so worth avoiding!

[legendsoftabletop]

The King in Yellow - Origins, Influences and Lineages

The King in Yellow – Origins, Influences and Lineages

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A special discussion on the work of Robert Chanbers, drawing from Ken Hites’s research for his new annotation of The King in Yellow. Where did black stars rise before they hung over Carcosa? What inspired the King in Yellow, whom emperors have served? Whither syphillis? Robert W. Chambers’ “The…

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Only 30 percent of sexually abused children referred for post-trauma counseling ; victims susceptible to long term mental, social problems

Forensic Interviewer and Counselor at ChildLink's Child Advocacy Centre in Region Three (West Demerara- Essequibo Islands), Nicole Whaul. ChildLink Inc; a local child rights organisation, says sexual abuse of children is one of the causes of mental illnesses sometimes leading to suicide- problems that could be curbed only if more is invested in rehabilitation programmes. The assessment is contained in the ChildLink Abuse Report titled "Crises In The Dark- Child Sexual Abuse in Guyana Today". "The recent study also revealed that victims of sexual abuse experience a number of post-traumatic symptoms such as nightmares, depressions, suicidal feelings and suicidal attempts among others," Forensic Interviewer and Counselor at ChildLink's Child Advocacy Centre in Region Three (West Demerara- Essequibo Islands), Nicole Whaul said Friday night. Whaul highlighted that child sexual abuse victims urgently need trauma-focussed therapy and other psycho-social interventions being offered by child advocacy centres. However, in 2017 only 30 percent of 841 children were referred, meaning close to 600 victims might never receive trauma-focussed therapy to heal from the trauma "and are likely to grow into adulthood struggling to suppress their childhood trauma". Whaul and the European Union Ambassador to Guyana, Jernej Videtic urged Guyanese authorities to plough more resources into combatting child sexual abuse and helping victims recover from the trauma. "We can all engage in talks and major promises but until this figure starts to rapidly decline to zero, then our words may mean nothing to those children who fall prey to abuse," Videtic said in remarks to launch the report. Whaul recommended the crafting of a national plan, the setting up of child advocacy centres in all 10 administrative regions to provide specialised counselling, enhanced training of prosecutors as well as support from the opposition civil society and other stakeholders for sustained initiatives. The EU envoy envoy said although Europe has provided more than GY$200 million in grants for children rights, sexual abuse in Guyana was still a major problem as reflected in more than 4,000  cases reported to the Child Care and Protection Agency during 2017. "This is an extremely damning and disturbing figure and we must fearful of the existence of such an alarming statistic", he said. Pledging support to the Guyana government, ChildLink and other stakeholders, the EU envoy called for improved medical support for children who have been sexually abused, an end to corporal punishment, extended family support, referral of all cases to child advocacy centres and the implementation of a sex offenders register. "We can all engage in talks and major promises but until this figure starts to rapidly decline to zero, then our words may mean nothing to those children who fall prey to abuse," he said

ChildLink Programme Coordinator, Kaeisha Perry ChildLink Programme Coordinator, Kaeisha Perry estimates that 33,000 of Guyana's 260,000 children under 15 years are sexually victimised before they become adults. She observed that the reporting of child sexual abuse has increased "drastically" over the years, rising from 574 in 2013 to 841 in 2017, marking a 46 percent increase over the four years. Perry forecast that, based on current trends, by 2022 more than 1,200 cases of child sexual abuse would be reported to the Child Care and Protection Agency. Already, she said many of such abuse  cases go unreported as for every report, there might be two or three unreported. "Child Sexual Abuse in our country is a devastating form of violence against our children and without adequate intervention, we can have devastating effects on our nation as a whole," Perry added. Perry warned that children, who endure trauma and do not receive any intervention to grow up and overcome their unresolved issues of sexual abuse, can have unresolved issues in their adult life.  "Adults with unresolved trauma can develop unhealthy coping habits, giving rise to the cycle of trauma in our nation," she added. ChildLink's Forensic Interviewer and Counselor, Ms. Whaul noted that  4 of 338 children whose cases were refrered from 2014 to 2018 suffered ruptured uterus as a result of the abuse and needed to be hospitalised and some abuse resulted in pregnancy and childbearing. Other victims contracted HIV, gonorrhea, syphillis and other sexually transmitted infections, she said. Whaul said school attendance and performance by some victims, who were referred to the Child Advocacy Centres, were affected. She added that the cycle of poverty and poor social and other coping skills were also the effects of sexual abuse. "Children, who are sexually abused and receive no interventions are likely to engage in juvenile delinquent behaviours such as truancy. Therefore, they are stigmatised as failures and bad children when they are really in need of support. Some victims  were forced to move out of their homes to live with other family members or in an institution most commonly if the abuser continued to live with the immediate family after the abuse" she said. The ChildLink official bemoaned that 82 percent of the perpetrators are family members or persons trusted by the victims instead of strangers. In turn, Whaul said families fall into deeper poverty, homelessness or overcrowded living conditions when the abusers, who bring in money, flee.

The report also states that abused children are at risk of the same form of abuse by multiple perpetrators. "Some children, who participated in the study, reported  being sexually abused by as many as five different perpetrators. The research revealed that children are most vulnerable in places with people where they should be safe. The ChildLink expert said children's vulnerability in those cases were compounded by the fact that a children are less likely to report abuse perpetrated by persons close to them. Further, she said family members were likely to protect other family members by not involving or calling the authorities. "Clearly, strangers who might grab a child in a dark alley do not pose that greatest danger to Guyana's children. Rather, men who they know both inside and ouitside the family are more likely to sexually abuse them," she added. ChildLink hailed progress in punishing sexual offenders since the Sexual Offences Court was launched in 2017, saying there was an 80 percent successful prosecution rate. "The children of Guyana are fed up and disgusted with us, as adults, who are in the position of trust. If we are not held accountable as professionals, then our children will continue to be vulnerable. Often, we are the only hope that children have after they were not believed by their families and our approach to the case can either give the child  hope and pave the path of justice and healing or it can add to the destruction of that child," Whaul added. Read the full article

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Rates Of Syphillis, Chlamydia And Gonorrhea Rising For First Time Since 2006, Particularly Among Young People can you die from syphilis

#can you die from syphilis #syphilis treponema pallidum #treponema pallidum haemagglutination test for syphilis #what is syphilis and its symptoms

[graphiqhq]

States Where STIs Are on the Rise

Despite the popular stigma surrounding sexually transmitted diseases and infections, more than half of all people will experience one or the other at some point in their lives, according to the American Sexual Health Association.

STIs and STDs are much more common than many may think, and their prevalence is likely due to a number of factors, including not using protection during intercourse, drug use, skin-to-skin contact and coming into contact with germs that hide in semen, blood and even saliva. In some cases, these relatively prevalent infections and diseases can be extremely damaging to one's health -- and in others, they can even be fatal.

From 2013 to 2014, 41 out of the 50 states experienced an overall increase in average STI morbidity rate (the death rate caused by STDs and STIs). Using the most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, HealthGrove, a health data site by Graphiq, found the states that had the largest increases in STI morbidity rates. After analyzing the relative increases for chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis per 100K people, states were ranked by average percent increase in the morbidity rate of all three infections between 2013 and 2014 (the most recent reporting year).

Note: Chlamydia data is unavailable for Alaska. Alaska's ranking was based on averaging rates of syphilis and gonorrhea only.

#41. Georgia

Average percent increase in STI morbidity: 0.28% Chlamydia rate per 100K people (2014): 519.86 Gonorrhea rate per 100K people (2014): 137.81 Syphillis rate per 100k people (2014): 33.86

#40. Ohio

Average percent increase in STI morbidity: 0.37% Chlamydia rate per 100K people (2014): 474.11 Gonorrhea rate per 100K people (2014): 140.33 Syphillis rate per 100k people (2014): 10.62

#39. Illinois

Average percent increase in STI morbidity: 0.5% Chlamydia rate per 100K people (2014): 516.5 Gonorrhea rate per 100K people (2014): 123.97 Syphillis rate per 100k people (2014): 21.7

#38. Maine

Average percent increase in STI morbidity: 0.74% Chlamydia rate per 100K people (2014): 265.75 Gonorrhea rate per 100K people (2014): 17.84 Syphillis rate per 100k people (2014): 1.73

#37. Missouri

Average percent increase in STI morbidity: 0.81% Chlamydia rate per 100K people (2014): 462.94 Gonorrhea rate per 100K people (2014): 122.22 Syphillis rate per 100k people (2014): 12.76

#36. Indiana

Average percent increase in STI morbidity: 0.98% Chlamydia rate per 100K people (2014): 434.02 Gonorrhea rate per 100K people (2014): 110.93 Syphillis rate per 100k people (2014): 7.23

#35. New Jersey

Average percent increase in STI morbidity: 1.2% Chlamydia rate per 100K people (2014): 336.02 Gonorrhea rate per 100K people (2014): 74.57 Syphillis rate per 100k people (2014): 13.17

#34. Kentucky

Average percent increase in STI morbidity: 1.71% Chlamydia rate per 100K people (2014): 401.88 Gonorrhea rate per 100K people (2014): 99.04 Syphillis rate per 100k people (2014): 10.17

#33. Wyoming

Average percent increase in STI morbidity: 2.14% Chlamydia rate per 100K people (2014): 338.45 Gonorrhea rate per 100K people (2014): 19.91 Syphillis rate per 100k people (2014): 1.03

#32. Maryland

Average percent increase in STI morbidity: 2.18% Chlamydia rate per 100K people (2014): 462.56 Gonorrhea rate per 100K people (2014): 103.02 Syphillis rate per 100k people (2014): 24.88

#31. Nebraska

Average percent increase in STI morbidity: 2.24% Chlamydia rate per 100K people (2014): 401.33 Gonorrhea rate per 100K people (2014): 78.08 Syphillis rate per 100k people (2014): 5.14

#30. Texas

Average percent increase in STI morbidity: 3.18% Chlamydia rate per 100K people (2014): 496.14 Gonorrhea rate per 100K people (2014): 133.55 Syphillis rate per 100k people (2014): 29.51

#29. Florida

Average percent increase in STI morbidity: 3.72% Chlamydia rate per 100K people (2014): 430.6 Gonorrhea rate per 100K people (2014): 107.11 Syphillis rate per 100k people (2014): 31.21

#28. Louisiana

Average percent increase in STI morbidity: 3.85% Chlamydia rate per 100K people (2014): 625.99 Gonorrhea rate per 100K people (2014): 194.62 Syphillis rate per 100k people (2014): 46.98

#27. Minnesota

Average percent increase in STI morbidity: 3.86% Chlamydia rate per 100K people (2014): 367.26 Gonorrhea rate per 100K people (2014): 75.14 Syphillis rate per 100k people (2014): 11.64

#26. Colorado

Average percent increase in STI morbidity: 3.87% Chlamydia rate per 100K people (2014): 414.99 Gonorrhea rate per 100K people (2014): 60.17 Syphillis rate per 100k people (2014): 6.74

#25. New Mexico

Average percent increase in STI morbidity: 3.94% Chlamydia rate per 100K people (2014): 554.26 Gonorrhea rate per 100K people (2014): 107.71 Syphillis rate per 100k people (2014): 13.57

#24. New York

Average percent increase in STI morbidity: 4.09% Chlamydia rate per 100K people (2014): 502.84 Gonorrhea rate per 100K people (2014): 105.63 Syphillis rate per 100k people (2014): 36.28

#23. North Carolina

Average percent increase in STI morbidity: 4.52% Chlamydia rate per 100K people (2014): 478.74 Gonorrhea rate per 100K people (2014): 146.37 Syphillis rate per 100k people (2014): 20.29

#22. Iowa

Average percent increase in STI morbidity: 4.55% Chlamydia rate per 100K people (2014): 381.95 Gonorrhea rate per 100K people (2014): 53.1 Syphillis rate per 100k people (2014): 7.73

#21. Arkansas

Average percent increase in STI morbidity: 4.78% Chlamydia rate per 100K people (2014): 527.31 Gonorrhea rate per 100K people (2014): 153.38 Syphillis rate per 100k people (2014): 13.14

#20. Idaho

Average percent increase in STI morbidity: 4.96% Chlamydia rate per 100K people (2014): 337.56 Gonorrhea rate per 100K people (2014): 27.48 Syphillis rate per 100k people (2014): 2.85

#19. Kansas

Average percent increase in STI morbidity: 5.05% Chlamydia rate per 100K people (2014): 384.11 Gonorrhea rate per 100K people (2014): 88.74 Syphillis rate per 100k people (2014): 6.91

#18. Hawaii

Average percent increase in STI morbidity: 6.51% Chlamydia rate per 100K people (2014): 457.18 Gonorrhea rate per 100K people (2014): 72.65 Syphillis rate per 100k people (2014): 7.55

#17. Vermont

Average percent increase in STI morbidity: 6.56% Chlamydia rate per 100K people (2014): 356.99 Gonorrhea rate per 100K people (2014): 13.4 Syphillis rate per 100k people (2014): 1.92

#16. Rhode Island

Average percent increase in STI morbidity: 6.69% Chlamydia rate per 100K people (2014): 413.6 Gonorrhea rate per 100K people (2014): 56.11 Syphillis rate per 100k people (2014): 15.22

#15. Virginia

Average percent increase in STI morbidity: 6.76% Chlamydia rate per 100K people (2014): 436.39 Gonorrhea rate per 100K people (2014): 99.87 Syphillis rate per 100k people (2014): 8.5

#14. South Dakota

Average percent increase in STI morbidity: 7.63% Chlamydia rate per 100K people (2014): 493.09 Gonorrhea rate per 100K people (2014): 105.58 Syphillis rate per 100k people (2014): 11.24

#13. New Hampshire

Average percent increase in STI morbidity: 7.64% Chlamydia rate per 100K people (2014): 270.96 Gonorrhea rate per 100K people (2014): 17.08 Syphillis rate per 100k people (2014): 5.97

#12. Oregon

Average percent increase in STI morbidity: 8.6% Chlamydia rate per 100K people (2014): 394.6 Gonorrhea rate per 100K people (2014): 59.03 Syphillis rate per 100k people (2014): 14.81

#11. California

Average percent increase in STI morbidity: 9.36% Chlamydia rate per 100K people (2014): 459.94 Gonorrhea rate per 100K people (2014): 118.46 Syphillis rate per 100k people (2014): 29.85

#10. Montana

Average percent increase in STI morbidity: 10.2% Chlamydia rate per 100K people (2014): 413.04 Gonorrhea rate per 100K people (2014): 42.75 Syphillis rate per 100k people (2014): 0.89

#9. Nevada

Average percent increase in STI morbidity: 10.26% Chlamydia rate per 100K people (2014): 424.39 Gonorrhea rate per 100K people (2014): 114.26 Syphillis rate per 100k people (2014): 32.01

#8. South Carolina

Average percent increase in STI morbidity: 10.62% Chlamydia rate per 100K people (2014): 588.23 Gonorrhea rate per 100K people (2014): 172.84 Syphillis rate per 100k people (2014): 15.71

#7. Arizona

Average percent increase in STI morbidity: 11.23% Chlamydia rate per 100K people (2014): 488.89 Gonorrhea rate per 100K people (2014): 116.95 Syphillis rate per 100k people (2014): 22.02

#6. Washington

Average percent increase in STI morbidity: 11.71% Chlamydia rate per 100K people (2014): 381.23 Gonorrhea rate per 100K people (2014): 89.24 Syphillis rate per 100k people (2014): 12.25

#5. Oklahoma

Average percent increase in STI morbidity: 11.83% Chlamydia rate per 100K people (2014): 536.6 Gonorrhea rate per 100K people (2014): 159.38 Syphillis rate per 100k people (2014): 10.75

#4. Mississippi

Average percent increase in STI morbidity: 13.87% Chlamydia rate per 100K people (2014): 655.42 Gonorrhea rate per 100K people (2014): 188.05 Syphillis rate per 100k people (2014): 21.46

#3. North Dakota

Average percent increase in STI morbidity: 16.41% Chlamydia rate per 100K people (2014): 477.06 Gonorrhea rate per 100K people (2014): 95.94 Syphillis rate per 100k people (2014): 7.05

#2. Alaska

Average percent increase in STI morbidity: 23.73% Chlamydia rate per 100K people (2014): N/A Gonorrhea rate per 100K people (2014): 182.42 Syphillis rate per 100k people (2014): 6.12

#1. Utah

Average percent increase in STI morbidity: 29.69% Chlamydia rate per 100K people (2014): 283.47 Gonorrhea rate per 100K people (2014): 49.67 Syphillis rate per 100k people (2014): 356.99

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Episode 79: Planned Parenthood - Rising Rates of Syphillis

St. Louis MO - We've seen a rise in new cases of syphilis and discuss some of the contributions there. We discuss not only stigma factors but also the influence of politics in availability for medical treatment.

There's an exclusive announcement in this podcast episode as to another service PP will be providing really soon from the time of release.

The internal condom has come up a few times over the last two weeks so we also discuss that.

Planned Parenthood offers a wide range of services that goes beyond family planning and sexual health services. They offer cancer screenings ya'll!

And as the title suggests, we talk more about syphilis and its rising. 

Use these services, get tested and if you come up positive, seek treatment. Know your status and get yourself tested!

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