Although I am content to leave the majority of blobby knobs to the Genito-Urinary Medicine (GUM) mob, as GPs there are very few areas we don't occasionally touch (preferably with gloves on though). Chlamydia remains a hot topic and the Health Protection Agency are advocating a annual screen for chlamydia in 16-24 years old who are generally a bit too lustful . Their press release is here and the full report here.
BMA News this week (Sat July 19, 2008) quotes HPA Centre for Infections director, Peter Borriello: 'It's increasingly the case that among young people a casual shag is part of the territory, it's part of of life'. Rather brilliantly he then added that SHAG now increasingly stood for Syphilis, Herpes, Anal warts and Gonorrhoea. Nice.
Their genius advice to young people is: to have fewer sexual partners and avoid overlapping sexual relationships. I think I know what they mean by that. They recommend condoms too - personally, I think I'll stick to that line rather than make moral judgements on my younger patient's sexual escapades.
2 comments:
SHAG. Love it.
Me too!
Even though I am probably past it.
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