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Whenever I see anything like this my first thought is that @thebibliosphere will know what these words mean.
Unfortunately, you would be correct.
“Vampire facials”, which many people think is needling but is actually far, far worse, refers to platelet-rich plasma facials, in which blood is taken from a patient, processed in a centrifuge to extract the plasma and then re-injected it into the face. It’s supposed to make the skin “heal” itself because of platelets or some shit, giving you a more youthful look. Kim K helped make it popular after it was on her show but I know she also supposedly regrets it.
It’s uh, controversial to say the least. And not just because it sounds like painful bullshit but because lack of regulation for this sort of thing has lead to a couple of cases of HIV transmission happening.
The penis version is that they’re doing the exact same thing, taking plasma from themselves or a donor and injecting it into the penile tissue, supposedly to treat erectile dysfunction, but a lot of the men doing this are doing it just to get a girthier look.
And if you think I hate knowing all this, you’d be right.
i hope you’re proud of yourself Joy.
I’m not sure what kind of back alley quackery these people are doing that’s getting them HIV, but Platelet Rich Plasma Injections are very much an accepted therapy for many things, including: Post-surgical recovery, cancer treatment, musculoskeletal injury (such as tendon, ligament, muscle, or joint injuries), chronic pain/inflammation such as arthritis, and many other conditions relating to soft tissue damage.
The platelets are only ever harvested from the patients own blood. Using donor blood not only exposes the patient to additional risks relating to handling, but also poses a risk of a reactions to a foreign substance. Anyone using donor blood is doing some back alley quackery.
I understand shitting on the absurdity of rich people is fun, but spreading medical disinformation is not, at least not for people working in that field. This is the kind of stuff that scares patients, and could potentially make them refuse treatment.
If you’d like some credible information instead of whatever the fuck @thebibliosphere decided to post, here is some literature.
I understand the medical uses in proper medical facilities. That’s not what Joy is talking about. At all. It’s things like the above from vanity “spas”.
Thank you, I’m out using borrowed wifi and my link wasn’t posting. Legitimately, all I was talking about were these types of procedures being done in vanity spas in relation to the screencap @ayeforscotland posted.
The deliberate bad-faith interpretation of my words to think I was talking about cancer treatments is absurd.
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Guys we gotta up our game the Georgians said fuck more than us
Having looked through historic googlebooks many a time and been frustrated by how difficult it is to search in this time period, this chart is most certainly due to the algorithm not properly picking up the “Long S” which was an f-like character used in place of an s especially in 17th and 18th century printing.
The rules of when the short and long s’s are used are somewhat complicated to modern people, but they are almost always at the beginning of words, never at the end, and if there is a double s sometimes they are combined and sometimes not:
99% of the time the word actually being used is “suck” or “sucking.” It actually shows up a lot as a word used to describe babies who were still nursing. In texts from this period the word “suck” will almost always read as “fuck.” This makes some of these auto-transcriptions absolutely brilliant in hindsight:
If you search for the word “fuck” in googlebooks within this time frame, you get hundreds of pages of entries like this. For example, this Shakespeare anthology:
This is not to say that people in the 18th century didn’t find this hilarious, I’m sure they did, but f-bombs were not being dropped in classic literature at the time. If they do show up, like in this 1785 slang dictionary: it is almost always bleeped out:
The other 1% of the fucks in 18th century books are, of course, not bleeped out because they are in Ye Olde Porn, of which there is a surprising amount on googlebooks.
I should also note if it wasn’t clear that the immense dropoff just after 1800 is when the long s stopped being used in print, and the reemergence was in the mid-late 20th century when people DID start dropping f-bombs in literature
they keep having just awful sex and dean (appalled) eventually has to be like “oh my god i must be in love with this dude because i cannot stop fucking him even though this is pathetic”
