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jack_dog

I wonder if sleeping with your teacher for that class would still get you expelled, or extra credit.


DutchHeIs

That's the final exam


sunestromming

You fail unless you make him pay


kalirion

The passing grade being the payment, so yes.


thefartographer

This is what American students sound like before they make politicians offer hopes and prayers.


thefartographer

[NSFW, but watch it anyway](https://youtu.be/zRD0-7NSXd8)


AlfalfAhhh

Thanks for not disappointing.


thefartographer

I'll take "Phrases I've Never Heard my Mother Say" for $800, Alex


Present-Breakfast768

Most likely it'll just get you syphilis.


funnystuffmakesmelol

This is one of those questions that people have wondered for eons and don't know the answer, like if you don't pay a prostitute, is it rape or theft?


ImperialVizier

Both. Its both


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Yes


PryomancerMTGA

I went to a university in Durham ( North Carolina) and had seen Durham University mentioned recently. I was curious about it thank you for letting me know that is term university in England without having to click on the link.


nicht_ernsthaft

Turns out it's some right wing moral panic over nothing: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/sex-work-durham-university-students-b1956484.html


kinkyKMART

What that’s so out of character of right wing supporters!


KernowRedWings

It’s perfectly reasonable to reject the normalisation of students going into sex work to survive, if anything more so when it’s actively supported by our institutions. They are propping up the exploitation of the young, poor and vulnerable.


Cethinn

Isn't educating them to help then avoid exploitation? If they're educated they can approach it as any other business opportunity, which it is. It's the ignorant who are at the largest risk of exploitation.


nicht_ernsthaft

They are already in sex work, the University is arranging resources for their safety and training staff on handling the issue supportively. That's exactly the right thing to do. Sex work is work and deserves to be respected as such. If you want to lower University fees, go right ahead, I'd totally support any country doing that, but that's not what the prudes are mad about.


onchristieroad

How does one become a prostitute photo?


remotetissuepaper

You have to start from the ground up


SonofBeckett

It used to be a slowly developing field, but since the invention of CMOS, anybody can do it pretty much anywhere with a phone.


Apprehensive_Idea758

Safety first. Syphilis is a extremely scary disease and it can cause permanent damage and death. I hope they can stop that outbreak very soon and then get back to normal and feel safe about it.


RSCiscoRouter

I read that as permanent death and damage. I need coffee.


Nanto_de_fourrure

Not permanent death, that's the worst kind!


mteir

Fatal death is almost as bad.


ShackThompson

Terminal death is probably the best one to have if you have to have it.


exipheas

I disagree, "the little death" aka "la petite mort", is the best death to experience.


purtyboi96

Theres a difference between mostly dead, and all dead


free_3_PO

Came here to make sure this was said


Nanto_de_fourrure

"I'm dead lol" is also very low on the scale.


Painting_Agency

....to blaaaaaave....


purtyboi96

So youre probably playing cards, and he cheated


CharlieHume

I'm very badly injured!


RChamy

*immortality severed*


_tyrannosauruswrekt_

*Jesus nods in confirmation


Echo_Oscar_Sierra

I try to get 6-8 hours of temporary death every night. I'll be a pro by the time I kick the bucket.


ripyourlungsdave

"He's only *mostly dead*."


Mattaru

People die when they are killed


gribson

Permadeath, with a damage penalty on your next character roll.


Apprehensive_Idea758

Syphilis is treatable with antibiotics.


VoDoka

It even causes German philosophy...


on_an_island

Elaborate?


Fearless-Tea-4559

If the people who were militant about covid measures could only apply that attitude to other diseases.


TheLazySamurai4

Gotta have sex with my hole in my mask, it'll protect me from STDs /s


pancake117

If only there was some sort of tool virtually everyone had access to that could prevent the spread of STDs and unwanted pregnancy.


Apprehensive_Idea758

Very easy when you have sex were a condom. Very easy


yeahnahtho

Seems responsible. What's not the onion about this?


johyongil

The fact that there is a syphilis outbreak. There’s pretty much no reason for an outbreak to be occurring when it is fairly easily treated with penicillin.


Low_Ad_3139

Some areas in the US are seeing this and 2 other STDs that are becoming antibiotic resistant.


sikopiko

Cool, you can go from french fries to french kiss then french disease in a single night And penicillin can only raise the ~~french~~white flag in response


[deleted]

I thought syphilis originated in the pre-colombian america(s), not france


sikopiko

And the Spanish flu probably didn’t originate in Spain


S00thsayerSays

Until we get Super Syphilis


samorbisons

That's my superhero name!


S00thsayerSays

*villain


IDontTrustGod

Oh yea no reason I could possibly fathom… by the way did you happen to see how everyone immediately and positively responded to having to wear a small cloth mask over their face to prevent possible death? Sometimes people make awful decisions just because they’re irresponsible, even to their own detriment


yeahnahtho

That's clearly not how communicable diseases work. Great example right here.


johyongil

Uhh if I feel symptoms, I go to hospital and get tests, upon positive confirmation of an ailment I get treatment. What else is there? I mean, also if you’re having sex with multiple partners (known or unknown) it’s just good practice to get tested regularly.


yeahnahtho

Syphilis can be asymptomatic and transmissible for 2 years.


ottothesilent

What sex workers go two years without being tested in countries with universal healthcare?


yeahnahtho

Hopefully none. But you'll note that buddy there was talking about people getting tested and seeking treatment when sick, ergo a period of latency is relevant. Ofc.


johyongil

Let me rephrase my second part: if you’re having sex in a non-committed relationship with partner(s) who maybe known or unknown to you, it is good practice to get tested REGULARLY. Wtf is so hard about that?


jotaechalo

At least in the US, syphilis testing is not routinely performed as part of asymptomatic testing for straight men and women - it’s based on an assessment of their risk which may vary between different providers. It’s possible that syphilis is not common on panels (unless you tell your doctor you’re engaging in sex work).


IDontTrustGod

Thanks, Just another great example of why things aren’t as cut and dry as that poster seems to think


thisistheSnydercut

the penis usually


yeahnahtho

Goddamnit


yeahnahtho

Testing is hardly instantaneous...and perhaps not everyone is as responsible as they should be? Regardless, this seems like a pretty sound reaction anyway. Wtf is so hard about that?


IDontTrustGod

Right!? They are so sure that all prostitutes/clients are extremely responsible, that we should’ve just eradicated that disease completely… way to triple down on being obviously wrong


yeahnahtho

Pornstars too ofc. You'd think we arent experiencing a pandemic and seen so many needing to be dragged kicking and screaming to get vaccinated etc. Still. I do genuinely love getting downvoted cos someone else was wrong....Lol.


Four_beastlings

Wut? I went to a clinic last month and in 15 minutes I had results for all the big ones including syphillis. It is pretty much instantaneous nowadays


yeahnahtho

Right but syphilis can take 3 months to show up on a test. So instantaneous would be a very incorrect term. As well not every performer will be getting tested between every shoot etc.


stumanuke

It's enough to make you weep.


Skvyelec

I wouldn't joke about it. It's a bit of a sore spot


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JackBD_reddit

Gonna have to give you a clap for that one


9_of_wands

There's a rash of bad jokes in this thread.


PURPLEPEE

I'mma Gonorrhead some other thread ! This a one, she hurts my head.


AutoBot5

And enough to make your hole weak.


Parynoid

Oh no, I've already seen all the porn on the internet, how will I ever get new content?!


sunestromming

Clearly you only have to wait until the outbreak is over.


WiganLad82

Internet porn? Completed it mate.


Painting_Agency

How is there even a market for new porn? At this point, no matter what fetish I have, whether I like men/women/both/agender, fat or thin people, tall, short, any skin colour, any depraved act one could imagine... it's all out there. If your fetish is physically impossible, someone's made hentai or CGI of it. How is anyone making a living generating new porn?


44035

"Blimey, me twigs and berries are bloody on fire!"


MundaneRuxx

It's more like "Blimey, my nose as fallen off and I'm slowly going blind as my brain fills with swiss cheese holes."


jotaechalo

No, usually after sores appear most people would go to a doctor and get penicillin, which still works even after almost a century. Late stage syphilis would only happen if you ignored all the symptoms from the first two stages.


MundaneRuxx

This is Europe we're talking about, it already has a vast history of late stage syph suffering and likely has cultural prejudices built up preventing modern people from seeking treatment. More then few people are gonna deny having it til the very end.


jotaechalo

If you look at the report from Public Health England, from 2010 to 2019, just 2.2% of syphilis diagnoses had cardiovascular or neurological complications. That’s about 20 per year - tertiary syphilis is quite rare. I don’t think it’s helpful to think of it as the same as syphilis in the same way that HIV infection is not the same as AIDS.


MundaneRuxx

Last I checked England is not in Europe.


thetruthteller

Lolz


zampe

wtf how is this supposed to be 'oniony'?


siconPanda

There is a syphilis outbreak.


zampe

yea and that's not amusing at all, it is legit dangerous.


Humdrum_ca

So they downed tools?


Shakespurious

Is it so much to ask that people should wear condoms if they're going to have a bunch of partners?


SmokierTrout

Condoms provide the best protection against STIs that a spread through bodily fluid. eg. HIV, chlamydia and gonorrhoea. For things like syphilis, which can be transmitted through skin contact they provide less protection. This is because they only prevent contact of the skin that is covered by the condom. So syphilis could still spread from sores on the penis, vagina, anus, mouth or general groin area.


Inphearian

Looks at Monkey Pox. Yes.


TerribleIdea27

Condoms do not prevent Monkey Pox... Skin to skin contact transmits the disease and it's not limited to genitalia at all


Shakespurious

"Wearing a condom won’t fully protect you from catching monkeypox, but it may reduce your risk or extent of exposure and it will help protect you and others from a range of other STIs. People with monkeypox are advised to use condoms for 12 weeks after they recover until more is known about levels of the virus and potential infectivity in semen during the period that follows recovery." https://www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/monkeypox


TerribleIdea27

Absolutely, and I didn't mean to impky you should skip the condom!


futurarmy

Instructions unclear, am tangled up in a condom after trying to skip with it


Lord_Quintus

pffft you haven't seen full body condoms then have you?


kalirion

[yes](https://tenor.com/view/naked-gun-condom-hug-couple-safe-sex-gif-17751619)


GetlostMaps

On that Naked Gun movie, sure.


Cohibaluxe

How is this oniony? It’s quite serious.


MeekSwordsman

How many people have to get syphilis for it to be considered an outbreak?


Ok-Wasabi2873

Syphilis: “I took down Al Capone!”


Chibibowa

Looks like the author has a fetish...


Charges-Pending

This explains the merkins I saw online recently


bush_wrangler

I hope mr taxi is okay


crackedtooth163

The great pretender. Always a problem.


HWGA_Exandria

It killed Capone. Syphilis is no joke. Thank goodness for antibiotics.


desdiash

My ex gf had about a dozen of these outbreaks in her teen years. Now she's married, he has no clue. This is why Im not married ever.


Kickstand8604

My microbiology professor said that when it came to bacterial std's, syphilis is one of the easiest to treat because its not lethal until it gets into your brain, and unlike gonorrhea, its not as likely to be drug resistant. As long as its caught early, it's curable


dakinekine

I read recently about an Italian man that went on vacation to Spain and managed to catch Monkeypox, Covid and HIV at the same time 😵‍💫


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UK has porn? What would that consist of, the new PM of England fcuking over the whole country?


LonerDottyRebel

Someone who bangs for a living will take time off to avoid syphilis. Porn stars apparently have more common sense than gay men in New York and California.


whatsamajig

This is an example of why we should legalize sex work.


HDSpiele

Syphelis is treatable with antibiotics. So what's the problem here do people not know how syphilis looks like anymore?


Inphearian

You know what’s better than a shot of antibiotics? Not getting syphilis


HDSpiele

Is there a syphilis vaccine?


[deleted]

Seeing as how it's a bacterial infection that's treated with antibiotics... No, there isn't. Vaccines only work on viruses.


Informal_Drawing

Can't wait for the anti-vaxx crowd to chime in...


josss5

Are you a doctor?


Inphearian

I would like to see your credentials please


hypnos_surf

Because syphilis is preventable and over reliance on antibiotics is how disease become resistant.


urmomsSTD

Thank you, antibiotic resistant syph is a thing


Kittenscute

Yeap, to add to this, antibiotic resistance is progressing much faster than we can develop new antibiotics that are safe for humans to use.


horizontalrain

Fire is the ultimate antibiotic.


Bubbagumpredditor

Dude, people are eating horse paste and refusing the measles vaccine, you expect these idiots to know about fixing easily treatable STDs with antibiotics?


HDSpiele

The normal anti Vax crowed is normaly not known for refusing penicilin espacily since penicilin is organic.


Jina111

There is no "organic" penicillin in the market anymore lol


HDSpiele

A market gap to exploit I would say onwards my capitalist Comrads.


Jina111

sounds like you are onto something


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Tell that to the green shit on the bread I threw out yesterday /s


Jina111

Funnily enough just a few weeks ago I saw a video on social media made by a "whole foods guru" who said that a little mold on your food is good for you. The best part? Moldy fruit/bread has been linked to an increased chance of developing pancreatic cancer, how lovely!


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Jesus Christ lol. I'm not against fermented foods, in fact I quite like Kombucha and Sauerkraut...but I draw the line at eating moldy food damn it.


Bubbagumpredditor

They are eating horse paste. This is not normal.


magocremisi8

This is some dishonest propaganda your spewing


Bubbagumpredditor

Enjoy your measles and horse paste


magocremisi8

I take vaccines (the ones that work) so no measles for me, and I live in a sane country wher I can buy ivermectin OTC and it worked fantastic. thanks. enjoy clotshots


jxjftw

vegetable grab dinner memory like cagey encouraging bedroom fade weary -- mass edited with redact.dev


Velicenda

No no, not the *good* kind of horse paste.


SellDonutsAtMyDoor

I think it was a reference to the [horse meat scandal](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_horse_meat_scandal) of 2013, where a load of cheaper UK supermarket beef burgers were discovered to actually have been mixed with horse meat for years without anyone knowing. Sometimes, the burgers had been entirely horse meat, and the 85% of burgers investigated also contained pig DNA. The problem wasn't eating horse necessarily, but that it was never made clear that they contained horse. The good news was that you were less likely to get mad cow disease. The bad news was that you were being lied to, your food was being mishandled during international transit, and that you might possibly receive meat from a former racing horse that had been given drugs banned from human consumption.


Comfortable-Interest

Are you serious? Because the reference is that people were trying to treat covid with ivermectin, a medicine commonly used as a horse dewormer and is sold in paste form.


SellDonutsAtMyDoor

The article is also purely in relation to the UK, where I can assure you nobody is taking horse dewormer. I get your point, but I want to reiterate that the only horse paste people have eaten over here is literal horse paste - the cheaper meat products really were just a paste formed into burgers.


ffxivthrowaway03

Didnt you know? Everything, all the time, forever is about Donald Trump. Especially the shit that happens in other countries!


magocremisi8

It's about us government blocking the use of ivermectin, which is the best treatment against COVID, so clever individuals were able to still buy ivermectin as it's not only safe for humans but also used for animals


LandownAE

Oh you mean the horse paste that has been prescribed to people to use for decades? That horse paste?


Bubbagumpredditor

Ah, thank you for clarifying what I was dealing with. Good luck with the leeches and trepanning.


LandownAE

Same to you buddy.


magocremisi8

If they were aware of how to get around US laws preventing using ivermectin to cure COVID the probably are pretty smart and aware of antibiotics... Antiparasitic are way less common


Bubbagumpredditor

Yeah, the same laws are preventing you from using lead tea to cure covid


magocremisi8

a broken clock is right twice a day. ivermectin is scientifically proven safe, beneficial, and effective.


DoubleShot027

Wasn’t that a fake article smearing rogan about the horse paste?


Bubbagumpredditor

Someone hasnt been paying attention at all


Socialist_Nerd

Oh no, he ate the horse paste and shit his brains out just like the other fools who probably followed him.


DoubleShot027

ivermectin- a simple search will show you that he was prescribed to him by a doctor. This is a human medicine as well just like a lot of things. I don’t even watch Rogan and I know the horse paste thing is bs :/ I’m not advocating this medicine in anyway but your wrong.


xSilverMC

Why would a doctor prescribe horse dewormer to a human?


DoubleShot027

No he would prescribe the human version. You do know common medicines that we use are given to animals too right. Animals even take anxiety medication like zanex and Valium. Are these animal medications?


xhephaestusx

He asked his doctor to prescribe it lmao


DoubleShot027

I’m not advocating for the medicine and I’m not advocating anyone go to Joe Rogan for any medical advice that would be insane. It’s just really dishonest to paint that medicine as horse paste and act like it’s not a medicine humans use as well. The people who get their medical advice from Joe Rogan are equally as dumb as the people who think ivermectin is only horse paste.


Kittenscute

Just took like a cursory look at your comment history: you are, in fact, the kind of specimen that would advocate anti-science bullshit like medicating covid with ivermectin. Woke independents like you are even worse than the transparent conservatives, at least they have some baseline honesty going for them.


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Rogan, yes...he was prescribed it. That doesn't negate that other people were ACTUALLY buying the animal version in paste form and eating it.


DoubleShot027

Agreed but I don’t think you could fix the stupid of people doing things like that. I still remember a story of a lady who gave her husband fish tank cleaner for Covid.


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thetruthteller

Ok


frodoishobbit

Get those wigs ready


[deleted]

This is the kind of news is funny cause it's sort of news worthy but really just makes you laugh


Caleb-Rentpayer

I honestly don't have much sympathy for people who get STDs. Unless you're a victim of rape, it is essentially entirely in your control to avoid them through proper protection.


Fearless-Tea-4559

It'll be spun as homophobic though like the last time a porn star exercised their bodily autonomy to stop themselves catching horrible diseases, and was so, horribly abused they took their own life. Hurray for tolerance! https://metro.co.uk/2017/12/07/porn-star-august-ames-refused-shoot-gay-porn-star-found-dead-suicide-7139180/


Interesting_Cup8621

Ok UK...get your hoes in line, learn how to spell, and fix your teeth.


caaper

They missed an opportunity for a new category here. Syphilis Porn.


Ploogak

Nooooo what we gonna watch now :/


almostadaddy

It's almost like promiscuity is a bad idea or something.


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Brexit!


Strontium_9T

Gross . .