Sexually transmitted diseases—commonly referred to as STDs—have now reaches epidemic proportions in North America; In fact, some see the epidemic as a disaster in the making.
A factor which has contributed in no small measure to the present STD epidemic is the unjustified and blind faith placed by medical “experts” in the “mythical protective power” of the condom against sexually transmitted diseases. The main cause of the STD epidemic of course, is the dramatic increase in sexual promiscuity during the past three decades.
Many people tend to dismiss STDs as mere nuisances which can be dealt with by obtaining a few pills or injections from the physician. In some cases, this may be true; however, in just as many cases—either because there are no symptoms pointing to the existence of an infection or because there is no curative treatment for that particular infection—an apparently insignificant STD will persist, unnoticed or untreated, and give rise, years later, to one or more of the sometimes fatal but always serious complications of STDs: infertility P.I.D (pelvis inflammatory disease), ectopic pregnancy and cervical carcinoma.
A striking feature of the sexually transmitted diseases—and, in my view, the saddest one—is that is women who bear the brunt of the disabling and even fatal long-term consequences of these diseases.
And yet, unbelievable as it may seem, the leaders of the feminist movement are silent about who the real victims of STDs are—women. Not a word is being heard from them about the grave threat posed by STDs to the health and life of their sisters.
Why are these very vocal promoters of equality between the sexes—who never miss an opportunity to denounce any form of discrimination, real or imagined, against women—suddenly so tolerant of a situation which blatantly victimizes women, to the practical exclusion of men?
Are we to assume that in accordance with the cols implacable feminist “pro-choice” logic, the risk of being maimed or killed by the long-term effects STDs is simply regarded as one more of the “choices” which women should be allowed to make for themselves?
If the “right” for women to chose to engage in practices which carry very real risks of physical or emotional damage to themselves is, in fact, just one more element of the feminist’ all-encompassing “pro-choice” agenda, shouldn’t the leaders of the feminist movement have the honesty and the elementary decency to inform their younger sisters of the long term consequences of STDs?
The failure to provide comprehensive information about sexually transmitted diseases and their consequences represents an inexcusable conspiracy of silence. But the feminist leaders are not alone in this conspiracy of silence. But the feminist leaders are not alone in this conspiracy; just as guilty are our public health officials and the media.
