STI is the official medical term. Was changed from STD a while ago bc infection is more accurate than disease.

STD. VD was good for back then.

For the last 400 years or so.

While “medical accuracy” is the official reason for changing terminology, it’s not the real reason for the support of it. All terms, in practice, mean the exact same thing. While STI may be more accurate, it still wasn’t the term chosen to replace VD (STD was) - that shows accuracy wasn’t the main motivational factor. The term STI has been around for 30+ years, it was around before STD became the preferred term, but had to wait in line behind it a couple of decades before it got its turn. As soon as it becomes stigmatized enough, there will be support to change it.

Jumpin, are you looking for a woman on VGC again, and trying to weed out undesirables? ;)

HAHA!

I learned my lesson before! The hard way.

Those weren’t women I was chatting up...

I was talking about we not harming the disease feelings =]

I have learn VD and STD (venereal and sexually transmitted) at the same time in school as synonymous so I wasn't inside this change because of stigmatization before you mentioned.

Still have a hard time understanding people trying to change words when what is really important is the intention and meaning... like I don't see any problem calling someone black, niger or African American on the terms itself I see the issue when used to harm that person (and there are a lot of people that use the PC chosen word but mean worse than the ones choosing the words that are forbidden).

There are no woman (in singular, because it would be wrong to expect more than one).