present wrote:
Douche McMurflenuts wrote:The clap is Chlamydia and also can be cured with antibiotics.
NO, the clap is gonorrhea. Sorry, you're just wrong here.
The clap is gonorrhea.
from wikipedia:
Gonorrhoea is also commonly known by the slang term "the clap". One suggested etymology is from the Old French word "clapier", meaning "brothel". Another suggested source for the term is from a notorious 18th century keeper of a brothel, Margaret Clap (better known as "Mother Clap"), though perhaps her name itself was derived from the slang term. It could also refer to the painful sting in the male urethra, which feels like the sting of a clap (as in clapping hands) when infected with the disease. Yet another suggested source refers to a traditional treatment used to clear the blockage in the urethra from gonorrhoeal pus, where the penis would be "clapped" on both sides simultaneously.[4]
The term "clap" may be derived from its diplococcoid microscopic morphology, which is suggestive of two cocci "clapping".
This term has, in recent years, come to be used by extension to refer to any unspecified sexually transmitted disease.