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[studmuffin]

[ Someone is very, very bored. He can't really help himself when he gets like this so the text post appears on the network sometime midday and stays there. He's not cursed, he's just a little weird. ]

So looking at all the posts from the other day I've compiled a factsheet for you guys. If you're gonna get it, you might as well have the history, right? I know, I know, I'm awesome.

→ The first hospital for venereal disease was the London Lock Hospital in 1746. Treatment was not always voluntary..

→ STIs/STDs were previously called “venereal diseases” (VDs), a term which derives from Veneris, or Venus, the Roman goddess of love.

→ Chlyamida is Greek for “cloak” because early researchers believed the disease “cloaked” the nucleus of an infect cell.

→ Gonorrhea got its name in the year A.D. 131 from Galen, one of the greatest Greek physicians. Its name literally means “flow of seed” because Galen mistakenly thought the penile discharge was “seed” flowing out against its will.

→ Syphilis is named after a mythological Greek shepherd named Syphilus who was cursed with a horrible disease as a punishment for insulting the god Apollo.

→ Doctors in the late 1400s and early 1500s were so afraid of syphilis they would not write down its name. Instead they used the Greek letter Sigma as its symbol.a

→ Historians believe syphilis originated in the New World among the Native Americans in the Caribbean, and that Christopher Columbus may have been responsible for spreading syphilis to Europe.

You're welcome.

Comments

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[adjunctly]

Jesus fuckin’ Christ—

Were you born this borin’ or it this just a temporary thing?

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[studmuffin]

I'm actually pretty much awesome.

[ He grins slightly crookedly. ] Besides, this is stuff people should know. Facts bro, facts.

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[adjunctly]

Uh, no. You’re not.

The only people who obsess about shit like this are the ones that don’t have a fuckin’ life and real life fuckin’ problems like the rest of us. It’s for shut ins and losers whose only escape from reality is to fuckin’ bend themselves backwards over details no one else cares about.

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[brobeforehos]

Let's start Sex Ed for the City.

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[studmuffin]

Special Sex Ed. Sex Ed: The Revenge.

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[brobeforehos]

You're thinking like a movie producer now. I never said movies would be involved, those are for personal private time.

[helsmaiden]

How... informative.

[studmuffin]

That's the aim, keeping the City knowledgeable of where their diseases come from.

[helsmaiden]

Are there many in the City with these diseases? [Ew, gross.]

voice; enjoy my rambling exposition

[unwheeled]

[Charles just...doesn't know if he should reply to this, or call Stiles and apologize, but. For one thing Erik says that Stiles knows what happened on Wednesday and for another calling people and apologizing is a strangely emotionally draining exercise that Charles has never had to engage in before today, so.

He'll just...see if he can't work an apology into this conversation. Somehow.]

So was all of this information gathered on your part due to an interest in history, linguistics, or social diseases?

voice; hello mr. xavier.

[studmuffin]

Uh. All of the above? [ He sounds amused, the noise of a chair in the background as he spins in it. ]

Once I wrote a paper on the history of male circumcision. It would've been epic but it was an Econ final. [ Pause. ] Knowledge is cool. Sort've. To me.

voice; hello mr stilinski

[unwheeled]

Do you think you need to convince me of the appeal of knowledge? Though your topic for an economics class sounds...a bit as though it strayed from the subject of the class.

[A bit]

[theassassin]

I really need to keep you more busy.

[studmuffin]

im trying not 2 make a joke about this bcause i know you could break me in two

[theassassin]

...Oh. Well, there's that. Zero to sexual in record time.

I could totally break you in half, in more ways than you could possibly imagine. ;)

[lupusalpha]

No one really needed this, Stiles.

[studmuffin]

[ Huffing. ]

Information is good for you, Derek.

[lupusalpha]

Is this your way of oversharing?

[intheblanks]

There's no point knowing your history without stating what you've learned from it.

→ You won't get sick if you wrap your dick.

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[adjunctly]

Ahh, support!

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[intheblanks]

Excuse me?

[studmuffin]

I was leaving that to your cleanly and capable doctor hands.

[intheblanks]

Not sure I wanted to know that your hands aren't clean after doing this research.

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[bettercallit]

It's worrying that I'm suddenly okay with the lack of sex I've not been having.

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[studmuffin]

dude hawkeye's not getting laid?! what hope is there for the rest of us?