In 1975, a round table discussion was held on nonspecific vaginitis or Haemophilus vaginitis, which is now known as bacterial vaginosis (BV). Participants in this round table included Drs Herman Gardner, Sue Criswell, Wilbur Dunkelberg, Malcolm Fuller, Richard Hildebrandt, and William Josey, all from prestigious medical institutions. Also in attendance was Mukti Bhattacharyya, a consulting venereologist from Sheffield, England. During the discussion on the epidemiology of BV, Dr Josey stated the following:“In my opinion, H. v. vaginitis is a form of venereal disease. If we can identify an organism as being associated primarily with the genital system, I would automatically classify it as causing a venereal infection”[1]. Indeed, that was the teaching in textbooks of that era.