It's syphilis, b*tch.

This poster bugs me.

Why?

Because it talks about how syphilis is on the increase in gay men.

While that may be the case, I don't like how a big bright poster on a busy street is touting the 'mos as disease spreaders.

Heteros pass it around too you know.

Side Note:

'1718, Mod.L., originally from the title of a poem, "Syphilis, sive Morbus Gallicus" "Syphilis, or the French Disease," 1530, by Veronese doctor Girolamo Fracastoro (1483-1553), which tells the tale of the shepherd Syphilus, supposed to be the first sufferer from the disease.

Fracastoro first used the word as a generic term for the disease in 1546 treatise "De Contagione."

Why he chose the name is unknown; it may be intended as L. for "Pig-lover," though there was also a Sipylus, a son of Niobe, in Ovid.'

Syphilis