The older terminology of ‘venereal diseases’ (VDs) largely has been superseded in the past 50 years by ‘sexually transmitted diseases’ (STDs) and more recently by ‘sexually transmitted infections’ (STIs). To some, venereal diseases came to be viewed as a narrow and pejorative term limited to gonorrhea, syphilis, chancroid, lymphogranuloma venereum and granuloma inguinale and related VD control ...
