Isn’t syphilis considered to be a new world disease that was brought back to Europe? Syphilis was fatal until the advent of antibiotics. Not only fatal, but increasingly horrible as the disease progressed.
I’ve long thought that penicillin had as much to do with the sexual revolution as did the birth control pill.
You’re right about syphilis having come from the new world! And I imagine right about the costs of one of the more well known STIs going down being impactful on the sexual revolution.
Isn’t syphilis considered to be a new world disease that was brought back to Europe? Syphilis was fatal until the advent of antibiotics. Not only fatal, but increasingly horrible as the disease progressed.
I’ve long thought that penicillin had as much to do with the sexual revolution as did the birth control pill.
You’re right about syphilis having come from the new world! And I imagine right about the costs of one of the more well known STIs going down being impactful on the sexual revolution.