None of those are "royalty" of any sort, and in fact all despised the concept. Teach/blackbeard, nor his crew, definitely weren't and you conveniently ignore that fact. Also why was their so much medicine in Charleston for it if no one needed it?
As for Victorian era Britain, mothers were selling their teenage daughters into prostitution:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Maiden_Tribute_of_Modern_Babylon
And just before then, the marquis de Sade wrote the literal book on sadism and sexual deviancy.
Feminism traces it's roots to then as well.
This was not the era of morality you all believe in.
They generally don't/can't test for herpes. You have to be on the lookout and know signs.
And the men generally aren't plowing a lot, it just takes them trying to "save a ho", then they are entrapped with the woman forever sharing the disease. Seen it happen to good dudes.
Education about herpes IS needed, and is evident here. Even OP seems to think it makes your dick shrivel with boils 24/7, when in fact it's incredibly opportunistic and hides extremely well. Particularly on women it can be almost impossible to spot depending on how the labia is shaped. It may also be in areas covered by hair, which is why the "merkin" came into being around the same time.
Most people here seem to have zero experience with women, which I guess shouldn't be surprising. Most of the time these diseases are not obvious and I have seen young men get caught by this before. We need more education about these diseases, not less... But it needs to be truly academic and not as described in the article.
Natural selection filled that role for a time, but now that we "manage" chronic disease and in some cases cure them, we have entirely removed natural selection from the equation.
I don't disagree that it is the natural safeguard, but we are far from it now.
Not at all.
Many of the "puritans" and protestants of the new world were just as guilty. Blackbeard attacked Charleston not for money, but for medicine...to treat syphilis. The fact that they knew a supply would be there tells you a lot for the demand at the time.
All the founding fathers of the US wore wigs. Franklin, arguably Quaker, was most notorious for his debauchery. Jefferson fathered children out of wedlock.
This mythical moral standards did not and has never existed.
Many of you seem to think I'm advocating all our hedonism, which is the exact opposite of what I'm saying. What I am saying is: moral standards are not enough to keep this in cheque and legal safeguards need to be in place for any hope.
"STDs wouldn't exist if we had the social contract of yore" is provably false and a retard level take.
Sexual Disease was so rampant in the 1500-1700s that wigs and makeup to cover syphilis scars were accepted into mainstream culture which persists to this day.
"The social contract" was always a lie.
Oh I haven't. Myself and all my siblings are married to Eastern Europeans.
White lib Karens are trash and the sooner they are pushed off their pedestal the better.
But it's also a fallacy to think all of central and south America is "colored". Many Argentines and Mexicanscs are more white than most Americans. Bring them in I say.
I would argue this is why there is the push for "AI", when really it's just data scraping the past folks who knew what they were doing.
The thought by the technocrat trans humanists is they can just replace the lost functions and knowledge with their silicon god.
There is no breaking point sadly. They just slowly boil the frog over generations, kids now never even knew what the world was like so there's no push back, only resignation and retreat into distractions.
Slowly they'll start removing the documentation of what the world was like (under the guise of it being racist), and it will be forgotten.
This is really not at all true and you need to understand life in Russia is incredibly brutal.
A small example, when I lived there my friends would go to a small stall by the metro selling rotisserie chicken. One night we bought chicken for dinner, the next morning walking to the metro we saw his stall was bulldozed. He clearly had no warning.
Bribes are expected for any interaction, even basic registration stuff and life is cheap there. There's a reason most men there drink themselves to death, it's softer than living.