robert hatcher: pelvic inflammatory disease is not an equal opportunity disease. it causes infertilely, chronic pain, hysterectomies for women, no comparable pathology for a man. so if a man tells a woman "but i love you so much, i mean, i'm taking my chances. you take your chances." you just tell that man that the risks are not the same. we can be encouraged that there have been some declines in gonorrhea, but gonorrhea rates are highest in the united states among industrialized countries. so what does all this mean to us personally? alexandra levine: maybe we have to think in a society a little bit differently about sexual behaviors. there was a time in the '60's where life changed and behaviors that were very common in the 1940's or 1950's went away. maybe you got to think about that a little bit. is it necessary to have sex with somebody that you don't really know? and we better look at that in a very careful way as a society. that's hard to do, but that's the real issue. who is that partner? how important is he to you? because the fact of the matter is, in a