SOCIOL 3U03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Gender Equality, Essentialism, Social Forces
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Sexually transmitted disease that"s been around for a long time. Now its started to become resistant because we give antibiotics too often (bacteria is creating a resistance) Problem of world war 2 was that soldiers were getting gonorrhoea. Since it was in the military it pushed the us government to solve this issue. Started collecting it over years and have never stopped. Blip of past world war 2 soldiers coming home and passing their gonorrhoea onto the population. After world war 2 people had new opportunities about where they wanted to live. A massive portion of the population moved into the cities. Some moved to the cities while others were just stick in the cities. A lot of soldiars (young adults) dropped off in the cities after the war and it was up to them to find their way home. Decided to just stay, and this resulted in them having multiple sexual partners (passing along sti"s)