Bacterial Vaginosis IS a STI

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2lj7e0519xo

Basically, you AND your partner need to be treated with antibiotics otherwise you'll keep getting it. Something many women have been saying for years when as soon as they have sex they get symptoms again. So make sure if you have BV your partner gets antibiotics for it too.

Surely if it is an infection and can be passed on through sexual intercourse then it is?

I agree in basic principle, but I imagine a lot of women would refuse, and take offence either at what they perceived was an insinuation that their partner was unfaithful, or at what they perceived was an insinuation that they were sleeping around. There’s still a lingering view in our society that STIs are dirty, that they mean you’re promiscuous - language like “riddled” is often used. Many women already dislike smear tests and gynae exams and feel vulnerable when they attend them: I can’t imagine that launching in with what they perceive as a hurtful or offensive character slight is going to encourage them to like them more and feel safer.

Whilst those people who are educated about them know that you can have an STI even if you’ve only ever had sex with a small handful of people in your life, there’s still a lot of work to be done to normalise this view.

It is new news.

But according to medical orthodoxy in the early 2000s, BV-linked bacteria could not be directly passed from penis to vagina.

Bacterial vaginosis can be sexually transmitted, less recurrence with partner treatment, study finds - ABC News

take offence either at what they perceived was an insinuation that their partner was unfaithful

Observation of the Relationships board tells me that married women need to be tested twice per year, and not because of anything they've done.

Men don't get STI checks as much as they don't go to the doctors[...] Chlamydia still making women infertile is another testimony to this

I have a solution to this problem: women everywhere refuse to have condomless sex with men until they get tested.

I have another solution: every man is fitted with a chastity cage at age 16 and it stays on until he dies.

Both of the above stop men from infecting women.

Or they could both just get regular check ups and take the cure - it's not that drastic unless only women are doing the fixing.

Really. I had it a teenage virgin.

The headline writer misrepresented an inflection that can be transmitted both sexually and non-sexually as being a sexually transmitted infection.

No, a new study has come out that proves what was believed prior was incorrect - the study shows it can be passed sexually. That's all. Doesn't negate other initiating causes.

I think you misunderstood my post.

If I say "STI", people are going to think of HIV, syphilis, that kind of thing that can only be transmitted via sexual contact, blood contact, or mother-to-baby transmission.

BV can rock up on its own, be triggered by swimming or cycling (especially if you don't remove your shorts straight afterwards), etc, as well as your partner giving it to you. So saying that it "may be an STI" is confusing, as the poster I replied to demonstrated.