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venereal disease

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venereal disease (countable and uncountable, plural venereal diseases) (abbreviated as VD)

(pathology) Any of several contagious diseases, such as syphilis and gonorrhea, contracted through sexual intercourse.

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Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis. Karl Kraus

In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it. Piers Anthony

Sex is the invention of a very clever venereal disease. David Cronenberg

Virtue consists in avoiding scandal and venereal disease. Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury

He is terminally ill, and it is implied that his "tuberculosis of the spine" originates from a venereal disease contracted by his father. Source: Internet

He said, “What I suffer from is called chronic obstructive venereal disease. Source: Internet

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