Are STD's God/Natures punishment for being sexually promiscuous?

[Anonymous]

Hell yeah. Roast in Hell. (For Christians)

Yes. Is highly likely you will catch something if you sleep around ( for atheists)

No. Its just the price you pay for bed hopping (for bed hoppers)

A total of 93 votes were cast: 37 girls and 56 guys. See detailed results

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+1 y

Yep keep in your pants y'all

[slatyb]

Silliness blaming this stuff on God. Atheists mostly have this covered -- we sleep around but have the money to buy condoms and the sense to use them. So God doesn't punish people for having sex. It's just a fact that having unprotected sex with strangers is risky. And guess who is at the greatest risk in the US? Ignorant teenagers who went through "abnistence-only sex non-education" ? You know, the ones who live in the most religious parts of the country? In places where they teach the truth about prophylaxis and contraception teenage pregnancies and STD infection rates are much lower.

[ThisDudeHere]

What's the point to answering this if you're already bigoted and just give the MHO to the person that most directly portrays your point of view?
What do you want us to say? Yes, God's punishing us?

No - std's are just bacteria that spread in a certain particular way. They're just another form of life and their existence has no greater meaning.

[LuckyLittleLucy]

No. That's what protection is for. A lot of the pictures in the above post seem to be shaming women for being promiscuous, not about STD's. If you're gonna shame for having lots of sex- shame both sexes. Or neither- that's just way easier.
You can have sex once and get an STI. you can have sex everyday day and never contract anything.
No, it is not a punishment from a higher power.

[CountVronsky]

I agree with the most part, especially the part of not shaming men and women for having lots of sex. I disagree in that "you can have sex every day and never contract anything". If you have sex every day with the same person, yeah, sure; now, if you have lots of casual sex, you'll get some kind of STD, because a condom isn't the solution to everything.

[LuckyLittleLucy]

I agree! I'm just saying that it's a possibility. Just to reinforce my point really... It is possible- but very unlikely.

[Yokoneko]

No because you can sleep with someone just that one decide to do it with a condom and not know that they had been around the block Avenue and blouvard many times and then ur at the clinic wondering why and how. Sometimes you don't have to bed hop it can be brought home

[yofuknutz]

Yeah that's the ironing it could be brought home

[GirlScout]

No, it's natures way of trying to neuter the stupid.

(Did you have to put Cyrus up there? I think I just puked in my mouth a little...)

[GirlScout]

Thanks for the mho's :)

(but please, never again with that photo - it's grotesque!)

[yofuknutz]

It goes to show how degenerate this generation is

[RJGraveyTrain]

No, not really, considering married couples can get STD's, all it takes is for one partner to be born with something (like HIV) or to have had an experience where they contracted something and was unaware.

[Asker]

Yes like sleeping around.

[RJGraveyTrain]

Having consensual sex with an individual isn't sleeping around. Sleeping with multiple people on the regular is sleeping around. A person can have sex with one person and contract an STD, because you don't know the history of others who have been in their lives and like I said, there are some you are BORN with, like HIV.

[SonicDare]

Yes, and some people can be a host for an STD without showing any symptoms, nor be sick from it at all. This could be true of Gonorrhea, Chlamydia and other things. They could catch it from someone infected, and spread it without knowing they're sick. Or AIDS from a blood transfusion.

[Vesuvius87]

C) Nope, that's the consequences you face for making wrong choices. You can stop at any moment before hopping into bed with someone else.

A mistake is forgetting your keys. Getting naked with randoms is not a mistake.

[LorcaNovena]

You can catch an STD even if you are not promiscuous. So no I do not think so, though what frightens me is just how ignorant people are to infections like herpes and chlamydia (two common forms of STD's).

People really need to think about the effects that STD's can have on their health. Is having a brief period of sexual pleasure really worth a life time of dealing with outbreaks of herpes?

[nalaa]

Well christians seem to believe just about any desease is a punishment from god, so why make an exception here?

But what are diseases really? It's bacteria and other organisms messing with your well working cells. But eventully their host will die and so will they so they need to find a way to jump to a new host, and well the bacteria responsible for stds found a good one.
It's always an arms race. With widely available condom now, maybe they'll be extinct in a few decades

[SonicDare]

NO we don't. Stop making shit up. I think disease in general can be: "man was too curious, slept with a sheep, and didn't know the microorganisms could make him sick", whether that is Divine Punishment or not is not for me to say, not that sex with animals will exactly designate a person for sainthood - I see it as mental illness, which may or may not be a sin and not for me to say. In some cases, I wish I could know that certain diseases were Karma sent directly from the Man Upstairs (to specific, nasty people), but I can't really say and would not hope it's true that Elephantiasis is a curse to Africa because God is pissed. Some disease could be considered a curse "by ignorance". Not for me to say what God thinks about it. I sometimes wonder, though.

[Anonymous]

Yes, God looked down and saw that people were enjoying sex and having a good time, "well" he thought "I'll need to put an end to that"...

Lesbians have lower STD transmission rates that hetero couples and gays have the highest rates of transmission - is God a closet Misandrist?

[BlackDynamite83]

God doesn't hate lesbiens the way he hates sodimites as they are only practicing until a real man comes along.

[Opinion Owner]

But he punishes women for getting with men, she's safer just having lesbian sex.

[Asker]

Yes she is until the day she marries.

[Anonymous]

Well it's not really fair to lump everyone into the same category. What if you are in a monogamous relationship, but your partner cheats? Then you find out they slept with someone who could potentially be carrying something? That's a scary thought, and I realize that's not the case for the majority. But some people did nothing to deserve getting the std. Just saying.

[demurefaithe]

STD's were made due to poor human choices with productive organs, its been around centuries. Its not a punishment, many people can get them in marriage as well. Some were even born with them, its human

[9mfeo]

If STIs are a punishment for being sexually promiscuous, then what is the crime of childhood cancer patients?

[Asker]

Eating processed meat, overhead power lines, chemicals in the water take your pick.

[9mfeo]

So, infants with leukemia are being punished for things they didn't do? Man, your religion is strict.

[jacquesvol]

Only strict? It's cruel!

[Anonymous]

I am Christian and I believe in God with all my heart. But I know He will never punish a man or a woman in such a way. Contrary, He gives them a chance, heals them in every way, and forgives them. People get such diseases because of consequences from their actions. Get check someone if you're going to have sex with them.

[Anonymous]

Is swine flu the punishment for touching too many door handles?

Viruses and bacteria are living organisms - they adapt to survive and grow like everything else. Human contact = possibility of disease.

[Asker]

Are those diseases spread through sex with multiple partners like aids was in the 80s?

[Opinion Owner]

No, and influenza kills far more than AIDS... That's my point.

[Asker]

Well goodvjob your not a nurse then.

[HookingSwan]

I don't believe God punishes people like that

God is kind, God is forgiving and he has more work to do than to annoy some people that are sexually too active.

[Nicolás25]

God doesn't exist it's the price you pay for sleeping around AND being stupid enough to not wear a condom

[Dtegesd123]

nope it's gods punishment for us not only eating animals but fucking them too

[Asker]

Well then cut it out.

[yofuknutz]

Show us in the Bible for the rest of us to see

[Völva]

No if that was the case, virginal Rape victims wouldn’t be capable of getting an std.

[up_64]

They are nature's punishment. We are a supposed to be monogamous. Because our offspring takes so long to develop and so stability in the parents is necessary

[abundantlyrich]

Their inability to make better decisions is the cause of it.

[Anonymous]

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[yofuknutz]

What the fuck is this what does it play

[longjohndan]

No, Jesus died for your sins so now you can do whatever you want.

[AngryHorny]

You're kind of putting the cart before the horse. Promiscuity is bad because of STDs, not vice versa.

[tattooedhandfet]

You're poll is just as fucking dumb as this post in its entirety! Who pissed in your cornflakes?

[Asker]

You must have herpes.

[tattooedhandfet]

That must be it!

[Asker]

Then please return to Christian values.

[Asker]

Pray the herp away!

[tattooedhandfet]

Is that the secret cure?

[greycadillacs]

By that logic it's much in the same way the common cold is god punishing people for shaking hands with other people

[Anonymous]

need to be on the spot detection like those drug test that you can buy at CVS

[WeComatose]

This is the best question

[Anonymous]

Oh anyone else tired of religion and it's moral enforcement. STFU!

[israelisevil]

Cause condoms suck i like the risk

[Lovelinefan]

Bwahahahaha