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Diseases soar with sex and the stressed City
Benn Quinn23 Oct 2008
AN upsurge in sexually transmitted diseases and drug and alcohol-related health problems among City workers has been blamed on the financial crisis.
One clinic has recorded a 20 per cent increase during the last 12 weeks in the number of patients with STDs such as chlamydia, herpes and gonorrhoea.
Doctors believe job cuts and looming lay-offs are causing recklessness among City workers.
Dr Sean Cummings, from the Freedom Health Clinic in Harley Street, said: "The fact that people are panicky means that they have resorted to tried and tested means of alleviating stress, and that means sex, drugs and alcohol."
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Just another poxy merchant banker then William?
- Kedge, Marlboro, UK., 23/10/2008 21:12
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There was a programme shown on TV some years ago about monkys having been waring with each other afterwards they immediatly go and bonk, to relieve the stress not any diffrence is there? just people behaving like monkeys after all they are said to be our closest relatives.
- Reality, Edinburgh Scotland, 23/10/2008 12:32
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Due to the pressure of work I recently became overly promiscuous which is completely out of character, but it was a welcome release from the continued stress I was suffering at work. This has lead to some extremely unwanted results.
It will take a month or 2 to recover physically but I think the psychological repercussions will take longer to heal.
- William Jenkins, london, 23/10/2008 11:56
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