STD Reduced from the 1970s

In the 1970s changes in public health policy and a further opening in sexual mores resulted in a perception that STD were dramatically increasing. this was compounded when AIDS/HIV emerged at the end of the decade.

Assuming HIV/AIDS does not emerge, and the reality becomes STD are further suppressed during the 1970s how are North American sexual practices going to develop? My first take is the Swapper subculture & related swinger thing continue to grow & become somewhat more accepted. That is spouse swapping is less of a underground thing & undergoes less of a retrenchment in the 1980s.

Obviously there rare a lot of other things affected here, which I'll leave for others for the moment.
 
Assuming HIV/AIDS does not emerge, and the reality becomes STD are further suppressed during the 1970s
That's quite the assumption.

Why should STDs be 'further suppressed'? One of the things that happened with AIDS was that people realized that there was something out there that couldn't be 'cured with a shot'. So people started being less promiscuous, using more condoms, etc. That cut the transmission rate of regular STDs in addition to protecting against AIDS.

I would suspect that STDs of various sorts would would be a large and increasing problem, without AIDS, and that you'd get drug-resistant strains rather earlier.
 
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QUOTE="Dathi THorfinnsson, post: 12716923, member: 3703"]That's quite the assumption.[/quote]

As valid a assumption as that other STD would not be reacted against with out AIDS appearing. Public health policy and individual attitudes had been changing since the 1960s. Decriminalization of STD in the military had been a very early change. Moving condoms from behind the pharmacy counter to the mechanic shelves was a important change. I watched that one occur. There was the general trend in the 60s & 70s to get treatment for STD without the quasi criminal public health actions going on around you. By 1978 getting treatment for Gonno was nearly routine as any other infection.

Condom use, proactive testing, the ability to recognize symptoms in a prospective partner had increase enormously from the 1960s through the late 70s. So no, having lives through the era I don't see the suppression of STD as dependent on the appearance of AIDS/HIV. It was well started & was going to continue anyway.
 
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