What everyone did not realize in the 1960s and 70s, at the peak of the so-called sexual revolution, was that freedom comes at a cost. At its inception, during the Summer of Love, in San Francisco, it all seemed so innocent. Back in the early-90s, a grey-haired piano bar regular, whom I took a liking to, would often regale me with stories of enormous orgies at someone’s house or apartment; the naked bodies literally wall to wall. Then, these reminisces always had a twinge of longing and sadness - as we sat in the middle of the AIDS crisis. For, the complete saturation of gay sex, in the pre-AIDS era, had reached such a critical point of complete saturation that it was no longer “sustainable.” Although, the flower-children, and today’s environmental-antics, saw Nature as a benevolent Mother, when natural law goes out of bounds, disease steps in and creates order, through death, out of chaos. But, Nature is often savage and merciless, like the African lion stalking its unsuspecting prey, with the carnage taking its toll upon the survivors. It’s an ugly lesson to learn; as I had to helplessly watch when beautiful young men turned into bestial skeletons in front of my eyes. Sadly, we have returned with a vengeance to old ways. With the advent of anti-viral cocktails, the call of freedom once again beckons. Now, we are living with a whole new series of demonically-inspired viral and bacterial deaths.
Gonorrhea has been classified as an urgent public-health threat in the United States after it has grown drug-resistant. Drug-resistant Neisseria gonorrhea causes 246,000 U.S. cases of the sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea each year. The disease is increasingly becoming resistant to tetracycline, cefixime, ceftriaxone and azithromycin - formerly the most successful treatments for the disease. Gonorrhea is especially troublesome because it is easily spread, and infections are easily missed. In the United States, there are approximately 300,000 reported cases, but because infected people often have no symptoms the CDC estimates the actual number of cases is closer to 820,000. If left untreated, gonorrhea can lead to pelvic inflammatory disease, ectopic pregnancy, stillbirths, severe eye infections in babies and infertility in men and women.