When we think of sexually transmitted diseases, we generally think of dirty disease ridden area. But in reality every area is effected by them in some way or another. About a fifth of all Americans have an STD at any given time and about 3 million people have crabs. Crabs, like a few other STD's, is treatable. It is also one the most easily treatable; it is usually treated after one use of shampoo at home and a good combing. It is also one of the most visible STD's. Essentially everyone who gets it should know within a few weeks of contracting it. Lastly, it doesn't take a doctor visit to identify, you can simply look at your pubic area and compare it to a similar image online, although it is always a good idea to go to the doctor to test for other STD's, especially after contracting crabs. These various characteristics of crabs makes it somewhat hard to transmit. Not to mention the fact that people are cutting down their natural environment by shaving their pubic region. In order to give somebody else crabs they must have pubic hair, you have to either not know you have crabs (usually only a 3 week period at the most) or be irresponsible enough not to care, and one of the last people you had sexual relations with had to have been in the same situation, and so did theirs, and so on. So assuming most people in the United States have easy access to shampoos to get rid of crabs, to keep the disease going people need to continuously have sex with two different partners within a month period at most to keep it going. Obviously this figure isn't exact and not all people who have or spread the STD crabs are promiscuous, but generally like head lice it spreads very fast through populations by people who have multiple sexual partners over a short period of time.
Crabs hasn't always had such a bad reputation, with modern improvements in technology and hygiene it has become a very easy and quick process. In the past, crabs was more similar to the other curable sexually transmitted diseases because it was less visible in a world of lowered hygiene and it was harder to get rid of. But with time, the nature of the disease has changed and promiscuity rather than hygiene has kept crabs alive. For more information about crabs visit The Crabs STD Guide.
For some quick and very basic crabs information visit The CDC page for Pubic Lice.
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