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  1. Jackie A Cassell
  1. Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Mayfield House, University of Brighton, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9PH, UK
  1. Correspondence to Professor Jackie A Cassell, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Mayfield House, University of Brighton, Falmer, Brighton, Lewes, East Sussex BN1 9PH, UK; editor.sti{at}bmj.com

https://doi.org/10.1136/sextrans-2017-053464

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    Subscribers to our print journal—many but by no means all, members of the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV—will I hope have enjoyed this year’s series celebrating a hundred years of the 1917 Venereal Disease Regulations in England and Wales. A great step forward in the humane care of people afflicted with sexually transmitted infections, this epoch making Act was only the beginning of a long journey. As a junior doctor in London in the late 1990s, I was shocked to meet women who had been locked up for 6 weeks in former Soviet bloc countries for the treatment of syphilis. This felt a long way off—something that could not happen here—until I remembered meeting as a medical student women in the Borocourt psychiatric asylum who had been committed following an unsanctioned pregnancy. Like unwilling nuns, fifty years on they were still shut off from …

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