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Social disease

noun

A communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact. Synonyms: Cupid's disease, Cupid's itch, dose, sexually transmitted disease, STD, VD, venereal disease, venereal infection, Venus's curse.

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"Social disease" Quotes from Famous Books

... would have shut out that very large class of benevolent people who have as yet been devoting their energies to prisons, workhouses, and schools. Such will now have an opportunity of learning that they have been treating the symptoms of social disease rather than the disease itself. They will see that vice is rather the effect than the cause of physical misery, and that the surest mode of attacking it is to improve the physical conditions of the lower classes; to abolish foul air, fouled water, foul lodging, ...

— Sanitary and Social Lectures and Essays • Charles Kingsley

... rule, however, Freethinkers are not inclined to attach so much importance as Christians to organised almsgiving. At the best it is but a clumsy way of alleviating the worst effects of social disease. The Freethinker attaches more importance to the study of causes. He is like the true health reformer who believes a great deal more in exercise, fresh air, and wholesome diet, than in physic. For this reason Freethinkers are generally students of social and political questions. They are ...

— Flowers of Freethought - (Second Series) • George W. Foote

Words linked to "Social disease" : LGV, genital herpes, Cupid's disease, syph, syphilis, granuloma inguinale, contagion, contagious disease, chlamydia, lymphogranuloma venereum, clap, lymphopathia venereum, lues, lues venerea, gonorrhoea, gonorrhea, granuloma venereum, herpes genitalis, pox