Sex and the Cities

Two-thirds of the top 100 cities are in the South, where abstinence/ignorance is the preferred status of the populus.

Of the Southern cities, fifteen are in the Carolinas. One city- Fayetteville- made it to the top ten; eight are more afflicted than that swamp of American iniquity, San Francisco:

City Rank STDs per 100,000

Fayetteville NC 10 1489.2

Rocky Mount NC 22 1279.6

Orangeburg SC 25 1192.6

Sumter SC 27 1176.2

Greenwood SC 35 1126.7

Florence SC 52 1030.2

Greensboro NC 55 1022.4

Durham NC 56 1017.3

SAN FRANCISCO 59 985.7

Jacksonville NC 64 974.5

Roanoke Rapids 

NC 67 968.4

Lumberton 

NC 70 948.3

Columbia SC 73 945.5

Winston-Salem NC 76 914.1

Charleston SC 80 895.4

Kinston NC 92 861.0

Gaffney SC 93 858.7