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Reply Thu 10 May, 2007 08:16 pm
More evidence that oral sex can cause throat cancer: A study indicates that oral sex with one to five partners in a lifetime doubles your risk of throat cancer, and oral sex with six or more partners triples your risk. To get the same risk elevation through vaginal sex, you'd need many more partners. Transmission vehicle: HPV. Other risk factors: infrequent use of condoms, poor dentition, infrequent toothbrushing, and heavy tobacco use.

Researchers' conclusion: "The widespread oral sexual practices among adolescents may be a contributing factor" in "the annual increases in the incidence of tonsillar and base-of-tongue cancers in the United States since 1973." Skeptical view: The odds are still very low. (For Human Nature's take on the HIV risks of oral vs. anal sex, click here.)


Joe(so my risk factor is like a gazillon per cent. I thought it was SAFE SEX)Nation
 
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Reply Thu 10 May, 2007 08:27 pm
I seen that story earlier, and was thoroughly devastated. What's next - Shaking hands brings the plague?
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Reply Thu 10 May, 2007 08:36 pm
And we thought getting rid of syphilis was freeing...

(well, it was.)
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Reply Thu 10 May, 2007 08:37 pm
That reminds me of when they called me at work about my vdrl...
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Reply Thu 10 May, 2007 08:40 pm
Shocked

Joe, I lived my life so happily until now.
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Reply Thu 10 May, 2007 08:51 pm
When will there be some good news?
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Reply Thu 10 May, 2007 08:53 pm
Uh ohhhhhhh.......
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Reply Fri 11 May, 2007 08:21 am
boomerang wrote:
Uh ohhhhhhh.......



It just proves once again that anything that feels good, tastes good or smells good or just brings a smile to your face , and here I am talking for example about a well charcoaled steak, someone is going to come out with a study that says it's bad for you/
So far:
the above mentioned steak.
also
Diet Colas
Coffee
twoallbeefpattiesspecialsaucelettucepicklesonionsonasesameseedbun
FastCars
loud music
pasta prima vera

extra extra hot hot sauce
Vodka Martinis
Gin Martinis
Cheese
Olives
not enough sleep
too much sleep

and several more that I am sure some of ya'll can add on.

Joe(screw them. I'll take the risk)Nation
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Reply Fri 11 May, 2007 08:27 am
I know, let's look for as many things to be anxious about as we can ! ! !

Breathing is fatal. Everyone who has ever breathed has either already died, or will within the next century (those who beat those odds will die soon enough, and don't constitute a statistically significant sample). Everyone should stop breathing.
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Reply Fri 11 May, 2007 08:30 am
I'm holding my breath just thinking about it.

Wait.

Anyone who has thought about things has died as well..

.. well, that's it for thinking for me.

Wait.

I see a bright light


Joe(and what may be some kind of tunnel)Nation
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Reply Fri 11 May, 2007 08:34 am
quick, everyone get married. then there will be no more oral sex.
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Reply Fri 11 May, 2007 08:38 am
Quote:
There's no delicate way to put this, so I'll just quote the survey report: "For males, the proportion who have had anal sex with a female increases from 4.6 percent at age 15 to 34 percent at ages 22-24; for females, the proportion who have had anal sex with a male increases from 2.4 percent at age 15 to 32 percent at age 22-24."


I'm sorry, but this statement confuses the hell out of me. I hope I'm not admitting that I don't know something that you'd think most adults my age would know, but I don't understand how the proportion of males who've had anal sex with a female could be different than the proportion of females who've had anal sex with males. Does anyone else have any problems assigning logic and arriving at differing percentages.

Unless I'm just really missing something obvious....which is always possible.

Also: I have some questions. Is the rate of throat cancer higher in homosexual populations, specifically lesbians, as to put it delicately, their sexual repertoire probably involves more oral diversions-taking the position in their menu of the entree as opposed to an appetizer or dessert- if you get my drift- than heterosexuals, or even gay males.

Is the throat cancer a danger to the giver to the female and/or the giver to the male in equal proportions- or is it, as I would theorize logically, men who are coming down with these health issues moreso than women?

I read the article- but I couldn't glean those facts- and purely in my role as the mother of both a female and a male teen-ager- I feel it's important for me to get the facts.
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Reply Fri 11 May, 2007 08:48 am
As to your first question, I think it has something to do with the number of partners.
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Reply Fri 11 May, 2007 09:39 am
Yes, but Joe, for every incidence of heterosexual anal sex- there is both a male and female involved, so you would think that the percentages would be the same, unless, and I think I just got it- some of the males are having anal sex with the same females- in which case that would account for the larger number of males than females. I of course was thinking that everyone had a different partner- not necessarily so.

But I also think that maybe girls feel more intimidated to admit such activity than boys- so it could also be false reporting that accounts for some of the difference.

I guess as far as the other questions, I'll have to find out how HPV virus is most commonly spread- through seminal or vaginal fluid.
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Reply Fri 11 May, 2007 09:46 am
Bi-Polar Bear wrote:
quick, everyone get married. then there will be no more oral sex.


How do you stop a Jewish American Princess from engaging in wild indiscriminate sex?



































Marry her.
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