Oral Sex Causes Cancer??

[CalMeacham]

Well, not quite, but apparently there are now claims that it promotoes it more than smoking:

First the bad news—and you better sit down, because it’s really, really bad: If you and your girlfriend have had more than five oral-sex partners in your lives, PBA, you are both 250 percent more likely to develop throat cancer than some sad asshole who’s never had oral sex. Researchers are too polite to point this out, but I’m not: Most Americans eat pussy and swallow cock. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, 90 percent of straight men and 88 percent of straight women report engaging in oral sex. Half of all American teenagers have had oral sex; by age 19, the number rises to 70 percent.

“Researchers believe,” reports New Scientist, “[that] oral sex may transmit human papillomavirus (HPV), the virus implicated in the majority of cervical cancers,” and the virus lodges in the throat, where it can cause cancer. Study subjects infected with HPV were 32 times more likely to develop throat cancer; folks who tested positive for one highly aggressive strain of the virus, HPV-16, were 58 times more likely to develop throat cancer. Smoking, previously believed to be the culprit behind most throat cancers, only triples a person’s risk. (A new slogan for the tobacco industry: “Smoke cigs, not pole.”)

This from the latest entry (May 17, 2007) in Dan Savage’s column Savage Love. read here, for instance:

The Stranger: Seattle's Only Newspaper

Anyone else read or hear anything about this?

[CalMeacham]

More “respectable” link:

The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center

Original Paper from the New England Journal of Medicine:

http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/356/19/1944?ijkey=qVEw4puuEh6zQ&keytype=ref&siteid=nejm

[The_Librarian]

Maybe you find this link usefull.

[CalMeacham]

Maybe you find this link usefull.

Ah.
Butr I never woulda guessed the content from the title. (And you’d think a Librarian would use descriptive titles)

[chowder]

Well I’ll be blowed…oh wait!

[CalMeacham]

I just re-read my reply – and it wasn’t meant to be nasty, which is how it reads. Please add a smiley.

:smack:

[CalMeacham]

Maybe I should add the following as well, for different people and different reasons:

:o

:eek:

[BwanaBob]

Does this mean men should get the new HPV vaccine too? Just in case they’ve been “down” a lot?

[The_Librarian]

@CalMeacham

I just re-read my reply – and it wasn’t meant to be nasty, which is how it reads. Please add a smiley.

:smack:

Don’t worry

It was indeed the least descritive title I could come up with. But in my defense I put it in MPSIMS.