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> " Apparently young men have less than half infections as women (i.e. less than half sexual partners than women do - all things being equal)" All things certa
by catalogia 7y ago
> " Apparently young men have less than half infections as women (i.e. less than half sexual partners than women do - all things being equal)"
All things certainly aren't equal though. There is a very large asymmetry in the chance to contract some STDs (specifically HIV, maybe others as well but I'm not sure.)
> In general, receptive sex is riskier than insertive sex. This means that women have a higher risk for getting HIV during vaginal or anal sex than their sex partners.
https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/group/gender/women/index.html https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/group/gender/women/index.html
(There are some CDC documents that put numbers to this generality, but I don't have the time to go find them right now.)
- buboard 7y agoThe graph is about Chlamydia though. (also the factors you mention wouldn't explain the age asymmetries)
- catalogia 7y agoI don't mean to suggest that there are no asymmetries in who is having more sex. Only that the assumption of equal transmission rate shouldn't be made. I don't know if there is a transmission asymmetry for Chlamydia, but I don't think it's safe to assume there isn't.
- robocat 7y agoOr men have the same rate, but sampled at 50%: perhaps the symptoms for women are twice as bad?