Serious answers only ... where did STD's originate?

Question

I am by no means a historian, a scientologist, or religious ... I am educated and have always wondered the belief in others regarding STD's ... where did they originate? Why? What is it relevance in life tday?

Answer 1

The same place other living things originated. Right here on earth.

STDs are either virus, bacteria or parasite. They happen to evolve into STDs because it's a great way for them to live, breed and multiply.

These same organisms exist outside of the human, but they're more sucessful as a life form when they use our bodies as their home.
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Answer 2

They are single celled organisms, so they have been around since the beginning of life on earth. The origin of single-celled organisms is not really known. Some people think they came from meteorites, and some people believe they were created by protein soup the formed bubbles in tide pools and started replicating as a random freak occurrance about 3 billion years ago.

Answer 3

Pathological organisms are trying to exist in a hostile environment inside people. The STDs are in the sexual path because of these favorable circumstances.

1) Moisture.
2) Host assisted infection.

These organisms are fast track evolving quickly. Much faster than people, this is why we should wash our hands and take public health seriously.

Answer 4

article 0ne -ORIGIN OF STDS

The origins of venereal (sexually transmitted) diseases are obscure.[2] Medical and other historians have often suggested that well-known diseases such as syphilis, gonorrhea, chancroid and lymphogranuloma venereum have existed since earliest times. This may or may not be true and some of these individuals may have drawn conclusions from ancient texts and manuscripts that may not be accurate. While the infections certainly exist in Homo sapiens , did they occur in the preceding species Homo erectus prior to 150,000 BC? No one knows, but the French philosopher Voltaire summed it up well when he declared in his Dictionnaire philosophique that venereal diseases are like the fine arts - it is pointless to ask who invented them


article 2 - Ancient afflictions
STDs probably are as old as human history, with the earliest records of such disorders dating back nearly 5,000 years. Perhaps you remember the story of Tsin-Chi-Hoang, the self-centered, autocratic Chinese emperor who wanted all civilization to begin with his reign. He ordered all writings destroyed--with one important exception. Being a bit of a coward, he spared all medical writing because he wanted his physicians to be able to cure him if he became ill. And so the medical manuscripts of an earlier emperor, Huang-Ty, which were written about 2600 BC, were spared. A chapter of this work is devoted to venereal diseases (2).

The ancient Egyptians also had experience with STDs, and sexual hygiene probably originated in Egypt. That civilization exerted a tremendous influence on the Jewish hygienic laws and indirectly upon our present-day hygiene. Circumcision, for example, was practiced by the ancient Egyptians as well as by the Jews (1).

Plato (400 BC), Aristotle (350 BC), Epicurus (300 BC), and Seneca (30 BC) all alluded to STDs in their writings. Galen (131), the greatest Greek physician after Hippocrates, is credited with naming gonorrhea, which means "flow of seed." Galen mistakenly believed the disorder was an involuntary loss of semen.

Answer 5

Just like Kanye West said, the government put out AIDS.
Have you heard the story where it came from... they said some women from Chicago in the 70's went to Africa and ate a raw monkey with a tribe that she was studying for a research project. That monkey supposedly contained the virus. Now let me prove that story as complete b.s. If any meat is properly cooked the bacteria and virus would all die. If it was uncooked you throw that stuff back on fire. If it wasn't cooked at all then that tribe is probably all dead anyways.

Answer 6

There are a variety of STDs. Some are viral (like AIDS), some are parasites (like the crabs) and some are bacterial (I think the clap is bacterial). All of these are living organisms. They simply evolved in an environment where human sexual activity allowed them to propagate.

Answer 7

Paris Hilton.

Answer 8

I think that they evolved like every other viral, parasitic, or bacterial life form.

Answer 9

Standard Trunk Dial? or Sexually Transmitted Diseases??

Answer 10

I read in some articles that STD is from monkeys. In the past, armies who went for wars need sex during break time. As they had no wives or girlfriends to release their urge, they had sex with monkeys. When they returned from wars, they went home and have sex with wives and girlfriends.