March 21, 2010
Published: 22 Aug 09 10:03 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/21622/20090822/
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Young men who contract sexually transmitted diseases often view their afflictions as an affirmation of their manhood, a new Swedish study shows.
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Human stupidity truly has no limits. I doubt if these morons would feel the same if they contracted something incurable such as herpes or HIV.
It's nothing more than an affirmation of their own hopeless stupidity.
Listen to syphilis girl , nelly furtado. Amazing track.
The guys who think Chlamydia is a sign of manhood just do this to satisfy themselves. Imagine you walking and talking on the mobile and drop in an open sewer. You look around if no one has seen you and if someone hasnt then you get back and show everything is back to normal before someone sees it!!
Moreover, there are more and more cultures coming to Sweden, in some way, reinforcing old stereotypes as well.
Said that, I would not shoot on the guys that seem proud to have contracted some sexual diseases; maybe it is they way to react from a difficult situation and cover their intended weakness in front of the group. Stupid, true, but in some way human.
Just tell them more and more, until becoming totally boring, that they may be less lucky in the future by contracting much serious infections and do not stop until they are convinced to use precautions next time...
My opinion of Swedish men is not good anyway, this just lowers my opinion of them even further.
They should be ssent back to school to leanr something.
However, I should blame the journalist to not give important data like "how many people is involved in this 'third group'?" they could be a hundred, but also they could be 5.
Also we do not know what other data, like cool numbers: how many immigrants?, are they working? , how many sex contacts per person?
How many is an interesting "Wh" word that have raised chaos among readers unintentionally. I suggest to ask Dr. Hammarlund about this study.
The strange thing is that with all these stupid men around I still can't find a girlfriend :-)
I would imagine that only non-educated first timer boys would only use such feelings to show off in front of their friends as a way to run away from the shame of the disease, but actually they do not subjectively feel the same.
Can we ask The Local on how they built this report? Is it a kind of advertisement from the phd herself about her results, or there is an unbiased researcher who concluded these results for TL?