Sex, War & Revolution: The Epidemiology of Gonorrhea in the USA

Body Horrors
By Rebecca Kreston
Sep 24, 2012 7:59 PMNov 19, 2019 9:22 PM

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It's not often that you encounter a graph and you think, "Wow! My god, that is a spectacular graph!" I have such a graph for you, reader, and it just so happens to be about gonorrhea. I know what you're thinking, "she can really pick 'em, huh? Exceptional taste in data presentation."

Truly though, this graph is a wonderful piece of historical data, a beautiful 2-D chart that plainly illustrates a few of the major social and cultural forces that have occurred in the United States this past century. Namely, the Second World War, the emergence of the Baby Boomer generation and the sexual revolution. This is heavy-duty stuff, people!

Rates of Gonorrhea in the United States, from 1941 to 2010. Image: CDC. Click for Source.

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