Nearly 83,000 cases of gonorrhoea were diagnosed in England in 2022—the most since records began in 1918. London’s rate of STIs is more than twice that of any other region. But the city’s special status is nothing new
London’s special status is nothing new. In the 1500s Henrys VII and VIII shut down Southwark’s brothels, or “stew houses”, to try to stop the spread of syphilitic sores. A study in 2020 estimated that in the 1770s a staggering one in five Londoners was likely to have had “the pox” by the age of 35, against 8% of people in the provincial city of Chester and less than 1% in rural areas.
The fun is not without risk. Gonorrhoea is becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics. As well ass, “chemsex” carries a greater risk of sexual assault, drug addiction and death. “We probably have more young men dying of chemsex than we do dying ofGeorgian Londoners were loth to admit that sex outside wedlock spreads. Today it is fear of stigmatisation that can hold up the aiming of health messages at gay men—as in a monkeypox outbreak in 2022.
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