Sex, Science, and Society A look at sexually transmitted diseases (Postgraduate Medicine)
When it came to sex, Moses knew how to lay down the law. Recognizing that an epidemic (perhaps of gonorrhea) was linked with "whoredom with the daughters of Moab," he solved the problem with stern and drastic resolve. "Don't do it--or die," he pronounced to the Israelites. And, indeed, anyone consorting with the infected women was slain (Numbers 25:8).
Christopher Columbus's crew did not live by such a rigid code. Although it is difficult to prove, many medical historians accept the so-called Columbian theory about how syphilis reached Europe in 1493. It seems that Columbus and his crew enjoyed female companionship in the New World and carried home the dire consequences of their encounters. They sowed the seeds of an epidemic that sp
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Sex, Science, and Society A look at sexually transmitted diseases (Postgraduate Medicine)
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