Multiple oral sex partners, 250% chance of cancer
This post was published 2 years 6 months 14 days ago and its content may not be valid anymore.Scientists believe that individuals that have oral sex with multiple partners are more likely to have cancer (women – human papillomavirus). The New Scientist has the the details concerning the new studies.
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.
Scientists recommend the use of vaccines and condoms during oral sex. "After controlling for other risk factors for throat cancer, such as drinking and smoking, the analysis revealed that people who had prior infection with HPV were 32 times as likely to have this cancer as those with no evidence of ever having the virus. And those who tested positive for a particularly aggressive strain of the virus, called HPV-16, were 58 times more likely to have throat cancer."
Oh snap!
I don’t think I have enough fingers to count… :(
250% *greater* chance… not 250% chance. 250% chance would be pretty bad odds, if cancer isn’t your thing.
well looks like i’m 250,000,000% more likely to have cancer
Jeffery, Adam, are you women? This says that women are more likely to get cancer from humanpapilloma virus… unless of course you mean that you’ve blown that many guys and are at risk yourself.
Okay, this scares me a little. If it increase by 250% if you’ve had 5 or more partners, you pretty much increase your chance 50% greater chance per partner. I’m not bragging, actually I’m a little ashamed, but if you factor in the number of women I’ve been with, being a smoker for 16 years, and a pretty good lush, I don’t like my odds. Now I’m going to shit kittens every time I have a scratchy throat.
P.S. @Jeffrey, that would be 5 million women, which means even with prophylactics, you’d be dead from HIV on stats alone.
lol you guys…two words…. sar casm
PS: The women getting cancer from HPV is from cervical cancer, the throat cancer is for anyone. Men who go down on women, women who go down on men, men who go down on men, and women who go down on women. Basically, if you go down on someone that has HPV down there, then you’re at risk