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Re:Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny by FreshStart on Thursday August 03, 2023 @06:12PM (#36992747)
That can't be true. That was before penicillin. Humanity would have died a syphilitic death.
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Re:Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny by strix_varius on Thursday August 03, 2023 @10:14PM (#36994643)
1928 < 1970
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Re:Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny by meheleventyone on Friday August 04, 2023 @03:23AM (#36996571)
Umm, yes, pre effective treatments lots of people died of syphilis which of course wasn’t well understood and had lots of false cures. It still kills hundreds of thousands of people today!
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