Yahtzee, I like you but sometimes your British/Aussie/whatever sensibilities get the better of you and this is one of those times. Granted, I'm not as upset as Reneux, and my intent is merely to inform and educate.
I'll grant you that it's been trendy for a long time to think that promiscuity leads to a crotchful of infections. Not so much. Yes we do have widespread diseases that are transmitted through sex (or primarily through sex), but we have a proportionately greater number of diseases that are transmitted through other means. We freak out about the communicability of genital warts to discourage sex, and yet skin warts, which are highly more contagious and are far more rampant, don't cause cultural movements to avoid shaking hands
Traveling to work, especially through metropolitan areas and using close-quarter systems such as buses and light rail will get one exposed to bunches of pathogens, and yet we're not all wearing surgical masks until SARS or the Swine Flu starts actually killing people.
And, we do something about it. The CDC, the WHO, the ATSDR, the HPA, EIS, IVS, ISS and so on all work on pinning the bastard to a slide and making a vaccine.
But not when it comes to STIs. It was only gays, druggies and homeless dying from AIDS in the 80s and because of that it wasn't a priority until it crept into the mainstream populace and went pandemic. The difference is not that people who have lots of sex are less clean than people who don't. The difference is that our church-backed erotophobic culture doesn't like to talk about sex, and doesn't like to finance STI eradication the way they will finance non-STI eradication, which they do out of straightforward fear.
If we treated yellow hemorrhagic fever or polio like we did HIV, we'd quickly run out of viable breeding stock. On the other hand, everyone remaining would be celibate and terrified.
Sex is risky. But so is living in a populated area. So is eating fresh food. So is handling money. If we weren't so stuffy about shagging, and treated STIs with the same perseverance with which we go after influenzas, sex would be pretty durned safe. Safer than going to the local grocer's.
So yeah, the boffing-every-female-character-in-the-game thing might have been in poor taste, but more because it represents women as prizes than because the characters are being amoral. (If there was a serenade-the-girl minigame first, though...)
Anyway, I'm done. You rock, Yahtzee. Be well.
238U
don't feel bad about not being too found of The Last of Us, Yahtzee. Ya can't like everything everyone else likes.
