ps “Congenital syphilis” isn’t merely “the baby has an STI, too,” it means that their development in utero gets all screwed up and they can end up with malformed bones and facial features, blindness, deafness, intellectual disabilities, seizures...

Sure, there’s a cure, but it literally costs $1,000 a pill (for the 12-week treatment course, that’s $84,000), and insurance companies are very selective about who they’ll approve for it.

YES, you need to be afraid of them! Once you have herpes, the virus hangs out around your spinal cord for life, which is why people get recurrent outbreaks. Gonorrhea and chlamydia infections can be relatively asymptomatic but can cause pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) in women, (a big, ugly, and again, often…