According to Theodore Roosevelt, "To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society". And just like what most sociologists would always point out, a society would often decay from within than from external factors.
The STD epidemic is one which goes beyond mere ignorance nor poor healthcare interventions. It could be rooted deeper than socio economic decline. It taps on moral disintegration among the young, which is carried up to adult age. And one's way of life is a kind of social contagion that eminates from the most basic member of society.
Promiscuity and the casualness one takes sex and relationship is a social risky behaviour that infects others like virus do. And the integration of sex education in schools may not be enough to contain the rapid upshoot of this modern day epidemic. We need to revisit and re-integrate a moral reference point.
Sexual promiscuity, like drug addiction and fashion are all social behavior influencing and re influencing an unknowing population. The notion that one is acceptable because it is popular paved a wide avenue where the risky behavior took route on, from dark alleys, from very few key population, to contaminate a huge, unmarginated mass of people. And in a time of moral collapse, STD has become a norm.
In epidemeologic studies, it is very rare that one causal agent would trigger a steady rise of a certain disease. The fact that STD is not airborn, and yet the rise is more staggering than that of coronavirus redefines the concept of behavioral contagion as the culprit in massive morbidity and the glaring cause for the epic failure to contain spread. The remedy, as we all know is as basic as hand washing, but not as acceptable. The remedy is of course the unpopular unboxing, unvaulting, or exhuming from an old forgotten grave, the long discarded idea of moral intelligence.
By drawing a blueprint for which the characters of the young can be rebuilt will be the ultimate antidote that would gradually but surely put a stop to the STD epidemic.
by: Joei Pacio Mayor, MD
Sept. 23, 2015
The STD epidemic is one which goes beyond mere ignorance nor poor healthcare interventions. It could be rooted deeper than socio economic decline. It taps on moral disintegration among the young, which is carried up to adult age. And one's way of life is a kind of social contagion that eminates from the most basic member of society.
Promiscuity and the casualness one takes sex and relationship is a social risky behaviour that infects others like virus do. And the integration of sex education in schools may not be enough to contain the rapid upshoot of this modern day epidemic. We need to revisit and re-integrate a moral reference point.
Sexual promiscuity, like drug addiction and fashion are all social behavior influencing and re influencing an unknowing population. The notion that one is acceptable because it is popular paved a wide avenue where the risky behavior took route on, from dark alleys, from very few key population, to contaminate a huge, unmarginated mass of people. And in a time of moral collapse, STD has become a norm.
In epidemeologic studies, it is very rare that one causal agent would trigger a steady rise of a certain disease. The fact that STD is not airborn, and yet the rise is more staggering than that of coronavirus redefines the concept of behavioral contagion as the culprit in massive morbidity and the glaring cause for the epic failure to contain spread. The remedy, as we all know is as basic as hand washing, but not as acceptable. The remedy is of course the unpopular unboxing, unvaulting, or exhuming from an old forgotten grave, the long discarded idea of moral intelligence.
By drawing a blueprint for which the characters of the young can be rebuilt will be the ultimate antidote that would gradually but surely put a stop to the STD epidemic.
by: Joei Pacio Mayor, MD
Sept. 23, 2015