• phdepressed@sh.itjust.works
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    VD had a moral failure connotation because of limited colloquial knowledge (and ofc religion). Since VD was viewed as a moral failure and not medical necessity people weren’t getting medical attention as the diagnosis was shameful. So there was a deliberate effort to switch to STDs. More recently the switch is to STIs to include non-symptomatic infections.