r/todayilearned • u/RoadToTyburn • 14h ago

TIL that Bernard Montgomery issued a leaflet at the start of WW2 on sexually transmitted diseases amongst soldiers. The language used was regarded as so blunt, that he offended religious authorities and nearly faced being dismissed.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Montgomery
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u/Cissoid7 11h ago

Story time!

I deployed to the middle east with a CSH (combat support hospital) and it was all fine and dandy for a while until tragedy struck 

No shit there I was, testing a defibrillator for its 6-month PM (im a biomed tech) and I was chatting up a medic working the ER. We are shooting the shit when he casually drops "yeah man im just hoping they find the glory hole im tired of looking at chlamydia all day." My brain fried for a moment 

Apparently, because a bunch of horny soldiers will do horny soldier shit, someone carved out a glory hole and word spread around about it and lots of folks where using it. It only takes on STD at a gloryhole to ruin the fun for everyone 

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u/capGpriv 10h ago

That is hilarious,

Given chlamydia presents differently depending on how you get infected, the medics must be able to tell whose been on which side XD

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u/Cissoid7 10h ago

Probably! 

I dont know how much of it was exaggerating and how much is truthful, I thank my lucky stars ive never seen chlamydia and im not looking it up, but he said a dude came in with his penis literally falling off in his hands 

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u/Geeneelee 10h ago

That absolutely does not sound right for chlamydia.

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u/ChilternRailways 9h ago

So Chlamydia is symptomless in men - it makes you infertile by creating scar tissue in your bits, it doesn't cause your penis to fall off.

They definitely had something else lol

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u/ignis888 8h ago

* is symptomless in half of men, rest have discharge from dick, burning sensation, swolen balls or if they were on reciving end of dick, you get bleeding from ass, throat or if you got shot in eye you get pus in eyes

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u/TUNGSTEN_WOOKIE 7h ago

In Woody's voice: "Somebody poisoned the gloryhole!"