This article answers its own questions then ignores those answers. The reason characters/situations are portrayed as they are in "STD"...
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Horror because, as stated in the article, everything around them is scary. Sex makes people voulnerable. Being exploited while voulnerable
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Is scary as fuck. Especially if the intent of your partner is malicious. It isn't some nefarious scheme to demonise people with the clap.
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Well it wouldn't be horror if it didn't prey on fears then would it?
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Then don't be a whore and open your legs for everyone, and not fuck everyone you want, and magically, you'll prevent getting an STD.
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Just another example of the
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Is this a parody account?
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Then there's the elaborate vilification of gays and women that ignores a likelier cause of AIDs: cis male scientists' contaminated vaccines.
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Victorian morality in horror didn't start with plague flicks, though. Single women who slept with men were first to die in Halloween, etc.
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Imagine STDs being spread via sex. Oh the horror!
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Because STDs aren't exactly passed around via Surfing... or Spinning... or Shitposting...
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