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You guys are friggin' nuts.

 

Might as well play Russian Roulette. Except the firearm has every chamber with a bullet.

 

Unless you first scrub down the private parts with Lysol or bleach - full strength.

 

I'll stop by if I see you at the clinic.

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Is Oral Sex Safe Sex?

Oral Sex and STDs

 

By Elizabeth Boskey, Ph.D., About.com

 

Updated July 06, 2009

 

About.com Health's Disease and Condition content is reviewed by our Medical Review Board

 

It's all very well and good to say that oral sex is not safe sex, but how much of a risk are you actually taking if you choose to practice unprotected oral sex? What sexually transmitted diseases can be transferred from genitals to mouth, and vice versa?

 

HIV

Although oral sex is a relatively low-risk activity, particularly when compared to vaginal or anal sex, it is possible to transmit HIV through oral sex. Using latex or polyurethane condoms, female condoms, or dental dams is an effective way to reduce your chances of contracting the virus when engaging in oral sex. If you don't choose to use protection for oral sex, you should know that the risk of HIV transmission increases if the person performing the act has cuts or sores in his/her mouth, if ejaculation takes place in the mouth, and if the individual receiving oral sex has any other sexually transmitted diseases. The risk is primarily for the person performing the oral sex. Unless a partner has significant amounts of blood in his/her mouth, such as from dental surgery, oral sex is unlikely to expose the receptive partner to HIV.

 

Herpes

Although genital herpes and oral herpes are usually caused by different strains of the herpes virus, HSV-2 and HSV-1 respectively, it is possible for either virus to infect either site. Therefore, it is possible to transmit herpes during oral sex, and the virus can spread from either partner. Herpes is contagious even when symptoms are not present. Even though prophylactic medications, such as Zovirax (acyclovir), can reduce the likelihood of both outbreaks and transmitting the herpes virus to your partner, they can not eliminate the risk entirely. Although they should greatly reduce the risk of herpes transmission, condoms are also not completely effective in preventing transmission of herpes during oral sex, since the virus can spread from skin to skin.

 

HPV

It is possible to spread HPV through oral sex, and it is in fact thought that HPV acquired while performing oral sex is a major risk factor for throat cancer. HPV can also appear in the oral cavity through vertical transmission (transmission from mother to child during birth). As with herpes, it seems likely that the use of condoms or dental dams during oral sex should reduce the risk of infection, but they will not necessarily eliminate it entirely since HPV spreads via skin-to-skin contact.

 

Gonorrhea

In recent years, teenagers with throat infections caused by gonorrhea have often been in the news. Gonorrhea can be transmitted in both directions when oral sex is performed on a man, and throat infections with gonorrhea are notoriously difficult to treat. There is limited research to suggest that it may be possible for someone to acquire a gonorrheal throat infection while performing oral sex on a woman, but transmission in the other direction is relatively unlikely since the site of infection is the cervix -- a part of the female anatomy not reached during cunnilingus. Condoms and dental dams should be extremely effective in preventing transmission of gonorrhea during oral sex.

 

Chlamydia

It is possible to transmit chlamydia during fellatio, and both the recipient and the person performing the act are at risk. There has been little research on whether it is possible to transmit chlamydia during cunnilingus, but infection risk is probably similar to that for gonorrhea.

 

Syphilis

Syphilis is extremely easy to transmit via oral sex. In fact, in some areas of the United States, oral sex has been shown to be responsible for as many as 15% of syphilis cases. Although syphilis can only be transmitted in the presence of symptoms, during the primary and secondary stages of the disease, the painless sores it causes are easy to miss.

 

Hepatitis B

The research is inconclusive as to whether or not hepatitis B can be transmitted via oral sex. Oral-anal contact, however, is definitely a risk factor for hepatitis A infection, and it may also be a risk factor for hepatitis B. Fortunately both hepatitis A and B can be prevented by vaccines. If you practice rimming, you should talk with your doctor about getting vaccinated. Vaccination is a good idea in any case, and the hepatitis B vaccine is currently recommended for all children and many groups of adults.

 

The Bottom Line

In summary, unprotected oral sex puts you at risk for numerous sexually transmitted diseases. If you perform unprotected oral sex on your sexual partners, you should mention it to your physician. She may want to check your throat when she is screening you for other STDs.

 

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According to Wikipedia, there's a 1/20,000 chance of infection for a man, per one sexual encounter of insertive oral sex with an HIV+ woman.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11773877

 

For comparison to other STDs, there's eg a 30-50% chance of contracting syphilis during one sexual encounter of unprotected sex with an infected person during the early stages of the disease.

http://www.answers.com/topic/syphilis

 

The problem with statistics like these is that they're for the general population. Hoo'ers are a vastly higher risk group. By the way, as a mongerer, you're also part of that select few at the top. ;)

 

Its all in the juice. If you sleep with a girl who sleeps with hundreds of guys a year, who are in turn sleeping with scores of other girls who also sleep with hundreds per year, and so on, you're not even in the same stadium with those 1 in 20,000 folks. The juice gets spread through screwing. The more this pack of bonobos screws (and I count myself a proud member of that illustrious group) the more that infected juice gets spread around. No condom? You're one crazy monkey. But just keep your, um, finger out of the punch bowl, will ya?

 

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This is all well known to us about unprotected sex mate.

My question was on oral sex by the man to the woman.

 

The HIV thing is practically pseudo-science when it comes to male to female oral.

The 'juice' HIV transmission is only a theory by some of the scientists it's the blood AFAIK which is the real 'killer'.

 

Hence me asking folks online what their personal take is, if they ever caught some nasty sh*t etc

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This is all well known to us about unprotected sex mate.

My question was on oral sex by the man to the woman.

 

The HIV thing is practically pseudo-science when it comes to male to female oral.

The 'juice' HIV transmission is only a theory by some of the scientists it's the blood AFAIK which is the real 'killer'.

 

Hence me asking folks online what their personal take is, if they ever caught some nasty sh*t etc

 

I meant infections in general. I know I referred to the 1/20,000 up top which was for HIV. Skimmed and didn't notice. It sounds like we probably wouldn't agree if we talked about HIV, but let's take a pass on that old argument.

 

Anyway, I got an outbreak of herpes bad once right after DATY on a stopover en route back home. Nice little bunch of blisters, top and bottom.

 

"So good to see you!"

"Oh so... how was... Bangkok?"

 

You asked.

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That's a bad one man. I remember meeting a guy in the Naafi one time many years back. He caught the herps off a girl in Ibitza!

 

That's the thing when it's dark and your getting your groove on it's hard to see what's what.

You can't always do the examination thing as it kills the natural vibe...

such are lifes challenges..

 

What's a DATY? Dating/Doing a Thai ?????

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Dating at the Y - use your imagination about the Y..

 

As my TR will attest, I have a compulsion to eat any TG Y that looks reasonably OK, in private or in public. So far haven't caught anything 9 years now. My last clean check was Saturday....

 

Keeping my fingers crossed, but not my legs.

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