Quote Originally Posted by rory_20_uk View Post
???

It's a virus. There is no cure. The others are all either protozoan (syphilis) or bacterial (gonorrhoea), barring HIV of course.

The "short course of pills" can last several months in such lovely cases as epididimitis where the infection has spread to your testicles and unsurprisingly is ever so slightly painful.
Yes, and the odds of catching herpes is about the same as getting cancer from my cell phone, I'd think....

Quote Originally Posted by rory_20_uk View Post
And chlamydia is often asymptomatic. In blokes that's fine but in women can over time lead to infertility.
Yes, it can over time do that. But with a few exceptions, it won't hurt you, so why worry?