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Some Very Disturbing (And Gross) Stats About STDs, Especially When It Comes To Black Women
1 in 5 Americans has an STD. Yikes. Just yikes. And ewww, gross. WTF?
Like many people these days, I’ve fallen into the regular habit of asking my friendly neighborhood A.I. (in this care, Grok) for stats about whatever I happen to be interested in at any given moment.
A.I. is like that dorky friend who’s just filled with random fun facts. I would know, as I was/still am that dorky friend.
Anyway, I woke up one morning and decided to ask Grok about STD prevalance among women in the U.S., broken down by race.
NOTE: You can’t really study anything in America without taking race into context, as the divergences are wildly disproportionate. For instance, people like to claim America is a wild west filled with gun violence because of mass shootings. Except most mass shooting are concentrated in the inner cities, between Black and Hispanic gangs. You take those away, and the U.S. is comparable to many “safer” places in Europe and elsewhere.
The same statistical “phenomenon” is true when it comes to STDs in women. Grok pulled stats from the CDC, which released a report broken down by infections by race in 2021 based on findings from a 2018 study, as…
