What term do you use for the viral/bacterial crudding of genitals?

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DonFerrari said:

Ka-pi96 said:
STD. That's what I learned first, and they are diseases so it's certainly not wrong.

I remember STI was what they tried to bring in because apparently calling them "infections" rather than "diseases" is less "offensive".

Pox sounds like something from the middle ages and I've never even heard of the others before.

So now we have to be PC with diseases to not offend them :) great time we live in /jk

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.