Did you know “gonorrhea” comes from Greek for “flow of seed”? Ancient doctors saw the discharge and mistakenly thought it was semen loss. So yes, the name of the STI is basically a 2,000-year-old medical misunderstanding that never got corrected.
Did you know “gonorrhea” comes from Greek for “flow of seed”? Ancient doctors saw the discharge and mistakenly thought it was semen loss. So yes, the name of the STI is basically a 2,000-year-old medical misunderstanding that never got corrected.