Maltese behaving more and more like animals in every way

The Health Secretary with his canvasser Anna Vassallo, ‘segretary’ at the new oncology hospital – Mr Fearne is concerned about growing numbers of cases of syphilis and gonorrhea and anonymous, unprotected sex

With savage ignorance raising its head everywhere and anywhere, it should seem obvious that having sex like animals would follow naturally on from this.

Chris Fearne, the Health Secretary, is concerned and has taken a break from bothering us about breast-feeding to trying to get people to behave less like animals where sex is concerned. Good luck with that, Mr Fearne – you have an uphill battle ahead of you because Maltese culture and society are now soaked in sex, come-on poses, propositions and up-for-it attitudes even among those who should be old enough to know better. And most of it is underhand, obviously there and going on, but beneath a false front.

The Health Secretary is justifiably concerned about the fact that there are an average of 50 new cases of gonorrhea and 45 new cases of syphilis among patients seen by the government’s sexual health clinic every year. And they’re obviously not Muslim invaders.

Syphilis was almost eradicated following the discovery of penicillin and with greater awareness about the dangers of unprotected sex with strangers, but with the fall of the Soviet Union and the temporary collapse of its health care programmes, it began to spread again, in the 1990s, first insidiously and then exponentially, with a vengeance.

It is not just any old STD, but an extremely dangerous one which was the scourge of the pre-pencillin age.

The latest Malta sexual health report says that in the majority of cases where people seek help and are diagnosed with these diseases, they are unable to give the clinic the names of the people with whom they most recently had sex, because they cannot remember their names or because the sex was anonymous. Yes, anonymous…and unprotected. At this point I have to ask exactly how insane you have to be to get a stranger up against a tree or the wall of a nightclub lavatory, or go with some whore in a lap-dancing club and take her infectious diseases back home to your wife. Not that some of the wives are any better.

But really, 81 new cases of syphilis just last year and this year, in a place this small.