Quote:Rhode Island health officials are blaming dating apps, such as Tinder and Grindr, for a spike in syphilis, gonorrhea and HIV cases in the state.

Syphilis cases have spiked 79%, while gonorrhea has risen 30%, according to data from 2013 and 2014. New cases of HIV increased by 32%.

"These data send a clear signal that despite the progress we have made in reducing STDs and HIV over the years, there is more work to do," state health director Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott said in a statement.

Officials say the spike there follows a national trend.

"High-risk behaviours include using social media to arrange casual and often anonymous sexual encounters, having sex without a condom, having multiple sex partners, and having sex while under the influence of drugs or alcohol," the statement says.

Health officials also attributed the increase to improved testing.

http://www.torontosun.com/2015/05/28/tin...ode-island

Dating apps don't cause higher levels of STDs, people cause higher levels of STDs.

But she said she is disease free...

Rhode Island has a dis-proportionally large immigrant population.

They also have the largest percentage of LGBTQ population aside from Oregon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_demogr...ted_States

How would an app stop someone from using protection? Might as well blame alcohol, yoga pants, pushup bras, makeup and perfume while you're at it.

(05-29-2015 08:54 AM)ODUDrunkard13 Wrote:  How would an app stop someone from using protection? Might as well blame alcohol, yoga pants, pushup bras, makeup and perfume while you're at it.

It's the yoga pants!

Tindr and grindr aren't to blame.
They just provide a vehicle for people to hookup for sex.
The people hooking up are responsible for their actions and the outcomes.

People using those Apps to hook up aren't going to be paragons of virtue as they've likely had casual sex many times before (walking disease carriers based on their number of sexual interactions) so I'm not surprised STDs are on the rise.

Nasty.

My wife worked in MA just across the border and lived in RI. There are a LOT of homosexuals there, especially in the beach communities. There's also a very large Portuguese and Dominican population.

(05-29-2015 09:02 AM)JerryJeff Wrote:  

(05-29-2015 08:54 AM)ODUDrunkard13 Wrote:  How would an app stop someone from using protection? Might as well blame alcohol, yoga pants, pushup bras, makeup and perfume while you're at it.

It's the yoga pants!

As with all of the world's ills…with blame whitey or yoga pants.
Whitey wearing yoga pants is the devil.

(05-29-2015 08:47 AM)EverRespect Wrote:  But she said she is disease free...

But he said he was disease free...

He claimed that he had a vasectomy...

She told me she was on the pill...

The app that facilitates a higher number of sexual encounters can rightfully be said to be at fault.

Without the app a large proportion of those people would not have access to the same amount of sex.

Those apps are part of the breakdown in society.

EverRespect is a legitimate misogynist. I don't mean that in a SJW-esque way either, he's straight up stated that he couldn't vote for a women as president because he doesn't think a woman could do the job. Not even a 'I don't think women are well suited to the task, but there are certainly women who could do it' just straight up 'they've got a ******, they're physically incapable of being a competent President'. He's, uh, got issues with women it's fair to say.

(05-29-2015 09:25 AM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  The app that facilitates a higher number of sexual encounters can rightfully be said to be at fault.

Without the app a large proportion of those people would not have access to the same amount of sex.

Those apps are part of the breakdown in society.

That's quite a leap of faith you're taking there, connecting those dots with only correlative data to support it.

(05-29-2015 09:27 AM)UCF08 Wrote:  

(05-29-2015 09:25 AM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  The app that facilitates a higher number of sexual encounters can rightfully be said to be at fault.

Without the app a large proportion of those people would not have access to the same amount of sex.

Those apps are part of the breakdown in society.

That's quite a leap of faith you're taking there, connecting those dots with only correlative data to support it.

Hardly...

(05-29-2015 09:25 AM)UCF08 Wrote:  EverRespect is a legitimate misogynist. I don't mean that in a SJW-esque way either, he's straight up stated that he couldn't vote for a women as president because he doesn't think a woman could do the job. Not even a 'I don't think women are well suited to the task, but there are certainly women who could do it' just straight up 'they've got a ******, they're physically incapable of being a competent President'. He's, uh, got issues with women it's fair to say.

What does any of this have to do with this?

(05-29-2015 09:25 AM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  The app that facilitates a higher number of sexual encounters can rightfully be said to be at fault.

Without the app a large proportion of those people would not have access to the same amount of sex.

Those apps are part of the breakdown in society.

Disagree.
The apps aren't causing the breakdown they are just symptoms of the breakdown. If people didn't want to hookup, no one would use/want the apps.

App creators see trends and needs and write apps to fill them.

People who want hookups would find like-minded people to hook up with either way. Tinder and grindr just give them a vehicle to find them easier/more quickly.

(05-29-2015 09:27 AM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  

(05-29-2015 09:27 AM)UCF08 Wrote:  

(05-29-2015 09:25 AM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  The app that facilitates a higher number of sexual encounters can rightfully be said to be at fault.

Without the app a large proportion of those people would not have access to the same amount of sex.

Those apps are part of the breakdown in society.

That's quite a leap of faith you're taking there, connecting those dots with only correlative data to support it.

Hardly...

Not hardly at all, claiming 'access to sex' from a phone app is a stretch on it's own.

(05-29-2015 08:45 AM)miko33 Wrote:  Dating apps don't cause higher levels of STDs, people cause higher levels of STDs.

For the libs here who try to connect this and guns:

1. Guns are used for hunting
2. Guns are used for protection
3. Guns are used by criminals to kill people

For the liberals, they want to remove all guns because #3 exists, even though #1 and #2 or totally unrelated.


Now, for the STD problem:

1. Tindr and Grindr are used to hookup for random sex

There is a rise in STD's. These apps are only used for random sex, where STD's being spread is rampant. So yes, the apps are causing the problem to escalate.

(05-29-2015 09:33 AM)UCF08 Wrote:  

(05-29-2015 09:27 AM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  

(05-29-2015 09:27 AM)UCF08 Wrote:  

(05-29-2015 09:25 AM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  The app that facilitates a higher number of sexual encounters can rightfully be said to be at fault.

Without the app a large proportion of those people would not have access to the same amount of sex.

Those apps are part of the breakdown in society.

That's quite a leap of faith you're taking there, connecting those dots with only correlative data to support it.

Hardly...

Not hardly at all, claiming 'access to sex' from a phone app is a stretch on it's own.

The app can be said to be the proximate cause, quite easily.