Say it Ain't So!-"Oral sex can cause throat cancer" 5/9/07 NewScientist.com

[MilesColtrane]

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn11819&feedId=online-news_rss20

I can give up cigarettes, I may even be able to give up drinking, anything but pearl diving!

And, as far as dental dams go...ugh.

Oral sex can cause throat cancer
22:00 09 May 2007
NewScientist.com news service
Roxanne Khamsi


People who have had more than five oral-sex partners in their lifetime are 250% more likely to have throat cancer than those who do not have oral sex, a new study suggests.

The researchers believe this is because oral sex may transmit human papillomavirus (HPV), the virus implicated in the majority of cervical cancers.

The new findings should encourage people to consistently use condoms during oral sex as this could protect against HPV, the team says. Other experts say that the results provide more reason for men to receive the new HPV vaccine.

[Pale Blue Dot]

1. This thread needs to be locked and deleted! Sex thread! SEX THREAD!! DELETE IT!!

:cry::scared:

[MilesColtrane]

4. Yeah, those pigs at NewScientist.com...they're a right randy lot

Those hot-blooded satyrs are always on the job. Their extra-marital activities are something startling. Frankly I don't know how they find the time to write articles.

They are nothing but lab-coated libertines. 'Anywhere anytime' is their motto. Off with the glasses and they're at it.

But the worst are the cancer researchers. Those tatty, scrofulous old rapists, are second in depravity only to epidemiologists. Eppys are right whores and trollops, cynical bed-hopping firm-breasted Rabelaisian nerds that make Fanny Hill look like a dead Pope.

[SarahB]

11. Be afraid. Be very afraid!!!!!!!!!!!

Bwa ha ha!!!!! :evilgrin:

[JVS]

2. Move this to GD. With the attitudes they have, this news shouldn't worry them

[Katina]

3. if true, maybe this will show that the vaccine isn't just a women's issue

like most STDs, if both partners aren't treated, the disease will recur. And if it is an issue for men, the likelihood that insurance will adequately cover the cost of the HPV vaccine increases substantially.

[unpossibles]

5. sadly, I agree n/t

[KitchenWitch]

10. I was thinking the exact same thing.

:hi:

[Katina]

24. well you know the whole "great minds" thing.

back at ya! :hi:

btw, just had my regular gyn check up and they recommend HPV screening for all women, regardless of age. The changes to the cervix caused by the HPV viruses don't show for 30 years, so they believe that the screening is being proactive to watch women at risk. No matter how old you are, get the screening done. I'm happy to know that I've tested negative.

[asthmaticeog]

6. "Sorry sweetie, I can't. Don't want to get throat cancer, y'know."

:evilgrin:

[TroubleMan]

7. I specifically went to the lounge to see if anybody posted this yet...LOL.

If the effects are cumulative, and it applies to men going down on women, then I think I might have increased my risk of throat cancer by 2500%!!! LOL.


Also, isn't strangely coincidental that they publish this finding right after they develop a new HPV vaccine?

[Deja Q]

8. So if I only have 3 sex partners, I'm in the clear?

Give me strength!

Hell, I'd settle for one!

[Connonym]

9. makes sense I suppose with the HPV cervical cancer link

It'll be very interesting to see what this does to the debate. Will the fundies still morally object if it's for boys?

[lost-in-nj]

12. Crap

Oral Sex rocks!!!! :)
shoot did I say that out loud????

IBTL!!!!!!

lost

[LeftyMom]

13. Ah crap, there went my insurance rate.

[davsand]

14. Do you know how bad this is gonna mess with men everywhere?

Oh man. I bet you there is not a man alive that isn't gonna hear about this study at some point--probably at a time when he REALLY isn't terribly interested in what a bunch of scientists have to say.

Oh my.


Laura

[no name no slogan]

15. Well fuck. There goes my weekend.

[Deja Q]

17. Is there anything I can do to improve your weekend?

:blush:

:evilgrin:

[no name no slogan]

20. You sick bastard

:rofl:

I wouldn't have it any other way! :D

[Oeditpus Rex]

16. This gives new meaning to the term

"smoking gun."




:7

[Deja Q]

18. Possibly, but if I ever saw one with smoke coming out of it,

I'd probably be callin' 911... :eek:

[cobalt1999]

19. Ha Ha...you almost had me there.

Quite the joker.

Move along ladies, nothing to see here, just someone making stuff up, forget you saw it...

[BlueIris]

21. Um, you're kidding about the "no dental dams" right?

Right?

Forgoing safer sex practices is a really, really, really unsafe thing to be doing, not just WRT your health but the health of your partner/future partner(s).

[TrogL]

22. Aw, crap - I'm in trouble

But it could be difficult for me to get cervical cancer.

[Nicole]

23. Aspirin makers will be pissed.

Headaches are no longer the biggest excuse. :rofl: