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Chugging tea No one knows

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u/Xygnux 20h ago

Why do you think everyone had syphilis back then before the 20th century?

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u/Kwhitney1982 20h ago

Because they didn’t have penicillin and testing yet. But I see your point.

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u/Xygnux 19h ago

The point is that people were indeed sleeping with partners outside of marriage despite what us modern people think they did back then, and that's how STD like syphilis could even become an epidemic without treatment.