If you live in California, Texas, Michigan or New York, you probably know someone who has the clap. If you’re in Alaska, it wouldn't be unwise to just assume you have the clap.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released their data on rates of STD infection among sexually active Americans in 2012 today. Merry Public Health Employee Christmas, one and all!

You know how gonorrhea has always been, like, the chillest STI ever? All, "Hey, man! It's me, gonorrhea! Listen, I'm going to be hanging around your junk for a few weeks, but I'll keep it quiet—no loud parties!—and then when things start to get weird, just pop some antibiots and I'm out, brah!" Gonorrhea knows when to…

This week, the World Health Organization warned Earth's genitalia that a new strain of drug-resistant gonorrhea was poised to unleash untreatable horror around the globe unless people were more careful with their junk. The good news is that "drug resistant" STD's aren't necessarily immune to all treatments. But the…

Researchers in Canada are flummoxed a puzzling set of statistics — despite the fact that most people had a safe sex message shouted at them from a young age, instances of certain sexually transmitted diseases have increased dramatically in the last decade or so. According to some experts the STDstravaganza can be…

These days, hating Uggs has become a bit of a cliché. So one writer decided to kick things up a notch, by plotting the boots on a "Scale of Whoredom" from "Sorority Slut" to truck-stop prostitute. Apparently you can tell by a lady's footwear if she has breast implants, a history of sex work, or an STI.

Los Angeles County once had 36 clinics testing and treating sexually transmitted infections. That was in 1996; today, thanks to budget cuts, there are only twelve. Meanwhile, the county currently ranks first in the nation for numbers of chlamydia cases and second for gonorrhea, and the worst hit are young…

A new study has found that young black or Hispanic women are more likely to be screened for chlamydia than white women, suggesting that providers could have biased ideas about who's likely to get an STD.

According to the CDC, the number of reported gonorrhea cases dropped last year to 301,000, the lowest rate since 1941. But don't start the celebratory fornicating just yet: chlamydia and syphilis infections are still on the rise.

According to new data out of the UK, "More men over 45 got genital herpes in 2009 than men aged 16 to 19." The Family Planning Association claims that adults over 45 are "oblivious" when it comes to condoms.

Half of sexually active teenage girls living in urban areas could have an STI - most likely chlamydia - before the age of 15, according to a new study. In response, doctors urge earlier screening for sexually active teens. [Reuters]

Researchers report that STD rates in the U.S. are through the roof. "We have among the highest rates of STDs of any developed country in the world," said John Douglas from the CDC, who suggests abstinence-only is to blame. [Reuters]

• Today a group of archeologists, divers, and volunteers began the search for Gertrude Tompkins Silver, who served as a fighter pilot during WWII and has been missing since 1944. She is the only WASP still unaccounted for. •

• Police have arrested a 28-year-old woman from the Atlanta area for allegedly running a strip club in her basement and serving alcohol, including Jell-O shots, to teenagers. •

• Hilary Clinton to the Barnard graduating class: "Women's progress is more than a matter of morality. It is a political, economic, social and security imperative...If you want to know how stable, healthy, and democratic a country is, look at its women, look at its girls." •

The GOP's opposition to putting $330 million stimulus dollars towards STD prevention funding could hurt their own constituents: Gonorrhea, Chlamydia and Syphilis, the most prevalent non-AIDS STDs are unusually high in Red States. [Politico]