I have read a few articles about Ms. Erdely's testimony, although I haven't read every article there is about the syphilis issue, so I'm trying to summarize and ask questions based on what I have read.
According to the website for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, "syphilis is easy to cure in its early stages."
This is a picture of part of that website's page about it:
This is the address for that page:
I didn't know until today that syphilis is easy to cure if you get to it soon enough. Perhaps because I was born a year before the last quarter of the last century began, "syphilis" has a terrifying connotation for me.
These are pictures of part of another webpage about syphilis:
This is the address for that page:
Although syphilis is not only transmitted through sexual contact, which I also didn't know before today, if Jackie decided that she didn't want a syphilis infection, even a cured one, publicized by Rolling Stone, that's understandable.
Also, this study reported that oral sex with no other sexual contact was the definite cause of only 13.7 % of the syphilis cases that the study researched:
Those are pictures of the first part of that webpage, for which this is the address:
This is another picture of part of that page:
"(6.9%) of 145 heterosexual women" is not a lot.
If Jackie didn't immediately attribute to Cindy awful things that were said after Jackie's assault, it could be that Jackie had some reservations about how Cindy would be perceived by the public.
Is it possible that Jackie had confided to Cindy that Jackie had gotten syphilis from being assaulted, and that it was Cindy who was lying to Ms. Erdely in revenge for how Cindy was portrayed in the Rolling Stone article?
Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, October 21, 2016 @ 10:47 p.m.
