I have never been a big fan of freesheet newspapers but I came across this headline in yesterday's Metro. As someone who writes headlines every day and who has worked on daily newspaper myself, I know that sometimes –with nightly deadlines looming – the words just need to fit and that it can be difficult to do. Not to mention how difficult it can be to write great headlines.
This one, however, won't exactly go down as one of the greats, not even for a trashy tabloid (the current title still goes to "Gotcha!"). You could really go to town in debating what it actually means compared with what various meanings it could mean.
Does this mean "all girls, every two years, at regular intervals"?
Bear in mind that the US and UK differ in how they refer to VD: in the US STD is preferred, for sexually transmitted disease; in the UK STI, for sexually transmitted infection is used.
OK, so whether you label it a disease or infection, I have never heard of "sex illness". It kind of makes it sound like something out of Spring Break and Girls Gone WIld, only every two years.
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