Venereal disease could be the result, and often was. British troops had a VD rate in 1916 of 36.7 per thousand; for whatever reason, the Canadians’ rate was an incredible 209.4 per thousand […] Twelve per cent of all illnesses among the men of the CEF were from sexually transmitted diseases, which were treated by the army as a self-inflicted wound.
It’s ‘cause Canadians are all whores.
(Source: summerlovingtortureparty)