Is There An Antibiotic For That?

In a recent study, people were asked about various sexual matters. Given a list, people were asked to identify the items. Two thirds of Britons identified a spaghetti sauce as a sexually transmitted disease.

The survey, of 1,015 people and released on World AIDS day, also showed nearly half were unable to identify a range of common sexual complaints.

"What is very worrying is the lack of knowledge about sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) revealed in the survey," said sex therapist Emily Dubberley.

"Sixty-three percent in the UK thought an Italian sauce (Arrabiata) was an STD and over 43 percent couldn't identify any of the common sexual complaints we asked about.

"This ignorance has no excuse in today's world."

The survey, conducted by pollsters MYVOICE, also found that 48 percent of respondents found body odour and poor personal hygiene a turn off against just 4 percent who felt the same about a refusal to wear a condom.

Here's a recipe for Penne Arrabiata. It doesn't say anything about getting naked that I can see but it is a spicy dish. We used to get better information than this hanging around on street corners, for heaven's sake. It's hard to believe there is this much ignorance in this day and age. My spell checker did not bat an electronic eye at Arrabiata in fact - it recognized the word right off.