Many marriages end when an affair occurs. The divorce courts are full of couples who became alienated because of an affair. It is sad but true that an extramarital affair can be devastating. The dangers of having an affair are real not only for an extramarital affair but when it breaks a committment you have made to a nother person.

Yes, some times a couple will split because of an affair outside their commitment to each other. An agreement to date only each other is taken seriously. When one breaks the oath, the other is saddened and leaves the broken relationship. If the couple are engaged to be married, the results can be more detrimental, destroying wedding plans and their plans for the future.

During and after WW II the arm made films about venereal disease. One such film showed a young man not using a condom while having sexual relations with a prostitute. He contacted gonorrhea and took it home to his wife. She had a baby born blind. These shows were often exaggerated showing men losing their genitals do to syphilis. Eventually the army abandoned these horror shows and decided to use spiritual training instead. (That didn't work either.)

When I was in Korea one of the men in my platoon went to Japan for rest and recuperation leave. He resisted the Japanese prostitutes refusing to purchase on for the week. But his buddies kept pestering him and the last night when he was dead drunk he succumbed. He contacted gonorrhea.

He wrote home to his sweetheart and told he what had happened. She wrote back that she would forgive him but that she would not forget. He was heartbroken and so was she. But that was not the end of the story. Both of us were told we had orders to return home. We left the company for battalion. We went though what was called a "pecker check." He failed the test. I moved on to Regiment and after a few days, he caught up with me. Again he did not pass test.

I next met him at Inchon. When are ship did not show up, we were sent to Pusan, but again I left him. He met me in Pusan and we sailed to Sasebo, Japan. We waited for a couple of more weeks for a ship. He missed the ship because the army still had not cured him. That was the last time I ever saw him.

Now this article is sounding like one of those army movies. But I am not trying to scare your pants off. But you should be aware of disease including the herpes virus which is not curable and can bring misery to your life. You should do all you can to protect yourself from these diseases and the best way to do that is by staying out of bad relationships.

Here is a question that I often ask, if a person wants to have sex with you before marriage, will he or she later have sex outside your marriage?

Be careful!

Fly Old Glory!