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Having dirty sex with happy people is how our species has done this since the Dawn of man.

• phkahler 4y ago
  I didn't even want to joke about that on HN, but it did cross my mind. Find a happy healthy person and (somehow) ask them for some fecal matter and do a transplant. Or just start licking butts... ugh
  • selimthegrim 4y ago
    I think they found out when studying maternal vaginal swabbing for seeding microbiota Caesarean newborns that the bacteria were actually either airborne from the maternal fecal route or somehow getting into the baby from there
    • zrail 4y ago
      Pooping during delivery is a thing. So that's entirely believable.
  • Hellbanevil 4y ago
    I don't think licking butts would do it. The gastric acids in the stomach might kill most of the good stuff? Now a turkey baster with a partner whom has no STD's might be doable. I once had a perpetually happy virginal, before me, girlfriend whom would have made a perfect donor.
    • ada1981 4y ago
      “Your sexual partners can change your microbiome, a new study in mice finds“ https://www.statnews.com/2019/04/05/your-sexual-partners-can-change-your-microbiome-a-new-study-in-mice-finds/ https://www.statnews.com/2019/04/05/your-sexual-partners-can...
• midislack 4y ago
  Sadly 40% of US adults already have an incurable STD so this isn’t really good advice.
  • halfnormalform 4y ago
    Moralizing is probably a sadder tragedy, though.
    • midislack 4y ago
      Not saying you're immoral for having an STD. Just spreading one.
  • Hellbanevil 4y ago
    Is it 40%? I guess it's herpes for most of that number?