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I wasn't sure if chlamydia was a bacteria or a virus so I looked it up on wikipedia. It is indeed a bacteria, thus preventable with antibiotics - probably the reasons for all the jokes about "Do you have your penicillin?" in reference to 70s STD education programs.
An interesting tidbit:
"Of equal importance, chlamydia infection of the eye is the most common cause of preventable blindness in the world. Blindness occurs as a complication of trachoma (chlamydia conjunctivitis)."
eek.
Not preventable, treatable. Thus the only ways to avoid getting it are either to not have sex (hmmm, that doesn't seem to be working) or to ensure that you are protected with some sort of barrier device. I wonder if they make such a device?
You're right. Ick, indeed on the eye chlamydia. Yikes.
So that would mean er um, well you know, is actually very dangerous and can make you blind if the party has chlamydia?
Yes, yes it is. Also, you REALLY don't want herpes or gonorrhea of the eye. The herpes is actually not that big of a deal, but gonorrhea... eeeeewwwwww.
However, with the right kind of barrier device...
I'm probably as kinky as the next, but really howinthehell do you get an STD of the eyeball? Eye mean, I occasionally have eyeballed a nice piece of tail, but not like THAT! Way to literal.
Plexiglass maybe?
Have you ever heard of a mis-fire? Or never seen a porno?
Babies get it from infected mothers on their way out.
Are you being honest here? Are you that sheltered? not insulting just asking for real.
That was a statement made as a microbiologist working in one of the largest medical microbiology laboratories in the United States. Babies born vaginally to mothers infected with Chlamydia, Gonorrhea or Herpes can get those infections in their eyes on the way out of the birth canal. That is one reason prenatal care is so important, and in my state Gonorrhea and Chlamydia testing of pregnant women is required by law. The rates are higher in areas of depressed socio-economical standing. It's also the reason babies eyes are treated with antibiotic ointment shortly after birth.
My post was meant for Natureboy above, sorry about the misunderstanding.
But, just imagine the Windex bill.
that's what you get for doing an eye job