Are STDs gods punishment for sexual acts?

Answer 1

No. They are communicable diseases caused by microbes. Those microscopic pathogens really don't care if you're sinning or not. They'll infect anyone, given the chance.

Answer 2

If it were punishment for sexual immorality, then everybody who is "sexually immoral" would have them.

As it is, some people never get them despite "promiscuity", some people get them from their partners who are promiscuous, some people get them from contact with infected substances (not sexual contact)...it's not a 1:1 ratio of STD: "immoral" person.

If it were a divine punishment, I would hope it would be much more fairly distributed. Most religions place eternal consequences as something to face after one's life ends, which reflects how unfairly distributed the ills of the world are.

In life, consequences are mainly about bad luck and germs. I don't think God instructs STD microbes to hop onto infected genitals to inflict divine wrath.

I really hope not.

Answer 3

Sexually Transmitted Diseases are scars that one wears as a sign of where they have been. It's sad to know that these horrible things exist and it's even sadder to know that through education of abstinence that these monstrosity's could be prevented. I am glad that I am not a young person today faced with the pressures placed upon one by a God Less Society that is leaning more toward secular values than moral ones. With Free Will comes power with power comes great responsibility. The thing is we are all human we all sin and fall short of the glory of God, when are we as human beings going to quit blaming every one else for our short comings in society. We reap what we sow, and if sleeping around breeds AIDS, Syphilis and Herpes, than that's the seeds of our harvest. It's not God's punishment, it is our cross that we bare.

Answer 4

No! They are not a punishment, no one deserves a friggin STD and theres no point in justifying it or trying to find a reason for it, it's just a crap thing that happens.

Answer 5

God doesn't punish us like this ! God did give us guidelines to go by and by following them we will avoid things like this. This Is a direct result of poor choices knowing that you can come In contact with disease's. This why pre-marital sex Is forbidden.
God created It and for the marriage bed Of One Man & One Woman.
If you sow curruption to the body,corruption you shall reap.
It's like this. It only takes one time to get pregnant same way with STD's.
The wages of sin Is death.

Answer 6

If we stayed in the parameters allowed by the scriptures, there would be no STD's...God did not cause them he allowed us to experience the consequences of our free will.

Answer 7

Are genetic disorders punishment for procreation?

Except that was commanded wasn't it?

Is gravity punishment for jumping? Is excrement punishment for eating? Are thoughts punishment for language?

But if STDs were punishment - does that mean those infected at birth or by lying spouses or by needle sticks in medical situations are being punished?

Answer 8

No, God does not punish people with things like this..
This is human choice, not Gods wrath.

Answer 9

Greetings!

It would be a bit of an anticlimax. Instead of some huge catastrophe doing us in, humanity may simply go extinct all by itself. Actually, the Big Decay may have already begun. Human fertility seems to be declining frighteningly fast. A couple of generations more -- and the human race could be history.


You would hardly notice it at first. Gradually, street life is becoming calmer than it used to be. Less people, less traffic. It’s a relief at first: no more housing problems, no more traffic jams, no more queues for the movies.



But after a while, your cheerfulness subsides. Slowly it begins to dawn on you what’s happening. You’re witnessing the demise of a species -- your species, to be precise. Humankind is about to join the Dodo, the Woolly Mammoth and the Neanderthal Man. The human race is heading for extinction.
OK, so you decide you’ll have kids, in an attempt to turn the tide. But then the grimness of the situation really lashes out at you. No matter how hard you and your partner try – no pregnancy. You turn to one of the fertility clinics that are by now very common. But the doctors can’t help you out. You’re infertile, the two of you. If you’re a man, you’re the one to blame: your sperm is of no use. You can have sex all you like, but your semen just doesn’t do the trick.

It’s a generation or two later. The world has changed completely. The fertility clinics are all deserted now – well, there’s animals living in them, and weeds growing all over them. In what used to be crowded streets, trees now grow. Wild dogs and rats stroll the deserted cities. Erosion gnaws at what used to be buildings. And outside the city, roads and farms lay barren, like a fading memory of what once was.


Abandon all hope - When humanity's gone, it will take nature something like fifty years to completely overgrow everything we ever built.

Sure, if you look hard enough, you’ll find some small pockets of humans that still survive. Mankind is a bewildered species by now, largely outnumbered by the birds, the rats, the dogs, the wolves perhaps. And the human species is degenerating fast: there are so little people left, they inbreed all the time, giving birth to children that are ever more mentally retarded. If they give birth to any children at all, that is.

But in the end, there’s no survival. Human is simply no longer viable. There will be a last group of humans – and then, the very last human being. Eventually, the last human gets old and dies. And that will be it. There will be no more laughter, no more voices, no more thoughts. The only thing left is a couple of ruins, scattered over the face of the planet.

Feel sad already? You should. The slow extinction outlined here is definitely one of the most depressing Apocalypses you could think of. Well, the good news is we aren’t about to witness it any time soon: with five billion people living on the planet today, overpopulation is more of a problem than extinction.

But that could change. Actually, the first signs of the Big Demise are already here to be seen. Men are becoming less fertile, several studies indicate. In only fifty years time, the number of sperm cells per milliliter of semen has halved, from 113 million cells to 66 million. Sure, that’s still a lot of sperm cells. But it could also mean that in another fifty years, men will no longer be able to make any babies at all.


Last Man Standing: The last human will be truly alone on the planet

It’s a big mystery why male fertility is declining. Many researchers blame the pollution: there’s all kinds of chemicals everywhere, in the air and in our food, and we just don’t know exactly what all these substances do to the human body. Others blame the human habit of wearing clothes: men have their testicles outside their body because sperm can’t stand high temperatures, and pants and underwear undo this. Clothes warm up your balls, so to speak.

A more exotic – and frightening – theory has it that evolution itself is turning against us. In nature, the biologically `fittest' individuals survive, leading to an ever more `fit' offspring. But among humans, this works different. How many kids you get doesn't depend on biology, but rather on where you live and what culture you’re in. Western city-dwellers get less kids than inhabitants of traditional societies. It doesn't matter who has the best sperm; the Not-So-Fit survive as well. So basically, the biological quality of our species may be in decline -- and the sperm problem could be a result of it.

Oh, it is probably a combination of things, the demise of our fertility. The chemicals, plus the ball-warming pants, plus the evolutionary knock-back, plus who-knows-what. Whatever the reason, we should worry. If the present trend continues, we could be history well before the next Millennium.

And it doesn’t help that the decline of our species is sped up by demography. More and more people adopt the industrial, Western lifestyle: more women working rather than having kids, and with reliable contraceptives widely available, more and more couples choosing to have children at a later age -- and less children. Eventually, this trend will lead up to the point when the number of humans will no longer grow, and actually start to shrink. The turning point is supposed to be around the year 2150.

So bring out the clones, you say. If we’re running out of humans, just make some new ones in a laboratory somewhere. Oh, come on, be real! Cloning doesn’t work as well as the media and the scientists like us to believe. What they don’t tell you in the news papers is that most clone attempts simply fail. For example: it took two hundred attempts before CC the cat, the world’s first cloned pet, came along. And then there’s the still insurmountable problem of old age. You see, old age is locked in your DNA. So your clone will look like a baby, but its DNA will be as old as you! So by the time you die of old age, so does your clone. It’s as simple as that.

So... We're doomed, right?

Well, not necessarily. Here’s the light at the end of the tunnel: the claim of science that men are becoming infertile may be dead wrong. The findings of the sperm counting studies are still controversial. One study says we’re doomed, the next study says that’s all rubbish. It will take some time before we know for sure what’s going on – if there’s anything going on at all, that is.

But don’t relax yet. Our species has a reputation for being not particularly good at reproduction. One out of four couples have serious problems getting pregnant. And even if you have sex at the height of female fertility, there’s only 10-20 percent chance of pregnancy. That’s probably the reason why humans are the only mammals that have sex throughout the year, instead of only during spring. Now, given these problems, you just DON’T want our species to become less fertile as well.

And then there’s this. We already mentioned the possibility that chemicals render us infertile. But yet, we come up with ever more chemicals. And it doesn’t help that the atmosphere’s cleaning up system that rids us of pollution is on the verge of breaking down (in a so-called `hydroxyl collapse’ – coming soon on this site).

Finally, there’s the eerie possibility our technology makes us infertile by mistake. As we write this, the US biotechnology firm Epicyte experiments with a new breed of contraceptives: corn that is designed to render the men that eat it infertile. And as we explain elsewhere on this site, there’s a real possibility lab crops like these `escape’ into nature, turning more and more crops into contraceptives. It would be some choice. Either you starve, or you go infertile.

Some ******* dilemma, if you ask me.

Answer 10

STD,s are like any other disease s[read from high risk people.
. . Now Kids, those are eternal torment and hell. The best way to avoid them is not to refrain form all the sex you can have, no , Sex is worthy of worship..such a gift to man and women..
The best way to prevent children is sterilization.. Medical science has put forth Tubals and vasectomies so we don't have to go through the hell on earth of having kids.

There is a cure if you have unprotected sex and end up with a crotch maggot in the incubator.. Abortion is the cure.

Al hail medical science!! No kiddos!!

Answer 11

If that is true, god also punishes animals for having sex. There are a whole host of STD's that affect the animal kingdom too.