“ [...]idiotic - I do think people who engage in self-destructive promiscuity do so out of pain, or due to commercial manipulation that they aren’t savvy enough to resist.“
Agreed. This is a fundamental result of the spiritual death of Westerners driven by materialism.
However, in the end, the individual makes the discussion. No matter how unfortunate, we’ve all heard whispers of The Truth, The Way [1], but rejected it.
[1] take this to be whatever philosophical/religious ideology you prefer; be it stoicism, Christianity, Buddha, whatever
It can only spill if it’s not already present. Since it’s already present, the STD will have a larger “concentration gradient” to “flow” faster.
But, really, the STD rates will always be lower among the boring “square” population than the adventurous, promiscuous, one.
I’m sure this will be about as popular a soiled diaper here, but “promiscuity” and “adventurous” sex is mathematically welded with risk. Monogamy, and vanilla sex are essentially risk free (barring a botched blood transfusion or something along those lines)