Is oral s** good?!
Question: i would never do it, but i was listening to Loveline and i a lot of people apparently do it
isn't it bad due to STDs and HIV?
Answers: i would never do it, but i was listening to Loveline and i a lot of people apparently do it
isn't it bad due to STDs and HIV?
J O DON'T DO IT DUE TO
Oral Sex May Spread Common STD
Experts Say Infection May Spread Without Symptoms
By Miranda Hitti WebMD Medical News
Jan. 6, 2006 -- Oral sex raises the risk of a common sexually transmitted disease (STD) called nongonococcal urethritis (NGU) in men, Australian researchers report.
NGU is a type of urethritis, an infection of the urethra, the tube that carries urine from the bladder to outside the body. One of the most common causes is Chlamydia trachomatis infection, yet it is underreported because a substantial number of people are not aware of their infection and do not seek testing, according to the CDC.
Other less common bacteria and viruses can also cause NGU.
Symptoms include:
Pain or burning during urination
A discharge from the urethra
A significant number of men do not experience symptoms; this can contribute the continued spread of the STD.
NGU is common among men and women. The Australian study only included men.
Oral sex was linked to less common infectious causes of NGU in heterosexual men and men who have sex with men. The researchers include Catriona Bradshaw, MD, and colleagues.
Bradshaw works in Australia's Melbourne Sexual Health Centre and the University of Melbourne.
The study appears in The Journal of Infectious Diseases.
STD Study
Bradshaw's study included 636 men -- 329 with and 307 without symptoms of NGU -- who were seen at the Melbourne Sexual Health Centre.
The men were about 32 years old, on average. They completed surveys about their sexual practices, gave urine samples, and got genital examinations. Those with NGU symptoms also got a urethral smear, a medical test done to detect pathogens that may cause the infection.
NGU was associated with receiving oral sex. It was also associated with unprotected anal sex and unprotected vaginal sex.
Several viruses were associated with NGU, including the herpes virus that causes cold sores (HSV-1). However, herpes sores weren't needed for NGU to spread. HSV-1 was strongly linked to giving oral sex and men who report having sex with men.
The HSV-1 virus was more strongly linked to NGU than another herpes virus, herpes simplex virus 2 (HSV-2).
The researchers couldn't always identify a virus that caused NGU. There may be viruses that cause NGU that haven't been discovered yet, they write.
Treatment decisions should be based on signs and symptoms associated with urethritis, not just tests done with a microscope, note Bradshaw and colleagues.
The study is "a good interim step in understanding this common and often frustrating syndrome," but more work needs to be done to understand NGU, writes editorialist H. Hunter Handsfield, MD.
Handsfield works in Seattle at the University of Washington's Center for AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Diseases, as well as the university's department of medicine.
The findings raise the importance of oral sex as a source of bacteria and viruses as the cause of this STD and indicate that we should broaden our search for other infectious causes of NGU, the researchers conclude.
many STIs and HIV can be transmitted through oral sex, but the risk is actually less than penile/vaginal or anal/vaginal sex. so it is no worse than any other kind of sex, but not really better either.
some people really like it, others can't even stand the idea of it.
im not trying to persuade u into oral sex or nutin but i mean sucking de dick is a good way to spice up sex and yo man will love it dont have to swallow da *** if u dont want to its not sluttish or anything jus have fun dont u want a nice dick in your mouth
Where have you been, I knew a girl who didnt give head. I never got serious with her because of that reason alone, not giving oral is like just weird. Yeah you can spread std's, but no more than you can just having regular sex. Just about every single girl does it, you might as well join the club, there is nothing masty or bad about it.