Naviblog... Are we back in the mid 80s?

* I keep reading about STDs and how the pace of STD infections has grown over the past few years. A recent article in the UK Guardian here or numerous articles in the Japanese press are fuelling what is not even a ticking bomb anymore, we are reaching new records of STD infections every year now.
* Humans are a strange breed: destroying the things and those dearest to them until it blows up in their face. Whether it is your health, your loved ones, your environment, once you see the truth it is often too late, and then you suddenly realise how dear it really was to you. Usually it is too late, whatever or whomever will never return, in some cases you are more lucky and get a second chance.
* It feels like we're back in the swinging mid-80s, when the HIV problem originally got out of control: I remember HIV and AIDS campaigns in the late 80s when the problems really reached epidemic proportions in both the UK and France, where I was studying at middle school and high school at the time. But it's too easy to say the Shibuya Tokyo girls in all their cheap makeup have lax morals and the slacker Kabukicho street boys with their untucked-in shirts yet perfectly styled hair are the latest pimps leading the sexual misrevolution. Remember youth are born to break the rules a bit and then settle down later. Remember that youth are born into an unfair and unbalanced education system that favors and biases, leaving out a large majority outside the "in" core crowd at school to figure out their own rules and regulations. Remember that adults create the moral environment for their kids to develop. Remember that many cases of STD are passed on boy to girl to boy by unknowing girls as STDs do not often show up on the radar screens, and by boys that cannot be brought to dealing with any disease out of shame of recognition that it is a disease. We need education, media campaign money against STDs, mobilisation between generations.
* I remember that back in high school and university, the campaign info (and my own research) stuck very strong in my mind when thinking of sex with my girlfriend. I admit, less so now, and that is the problem and I am not immune to attention decay. But I check for STDs regularly at the clinic and use condoms as much as possible. So should most of you out there. It becomes us as a global or local village to look out for ourselves and contain the epidemic that reminisce of Tom Hanks in Philadelphia. We don't need that again, or ever. There are enough diseases on Earth, we have no right to add ignorance to the list.