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the page title suggests, this page collects blog entries on dangerous sex,
whether dangerous for disease, conception, or both. You'll also find entries
from my point of view on practicing safe sex, or not, and other amusing things.
More
recent entries are added on top of the page. February
24, 2003 A
study of the infection rates of swallowing fellatio-ers shows that none of
them have reported HIV from their tasty non-dairy treat indulgence. I would
imagine pretty much everyone is excited to hear this news, being as most
everyone reading this either has a cock, enjoys sucking them, or perhaps both.
And as for the lesbians... you should be glad to not have your gay brothers
dying off quite as quickly as they might otherwise, since you guys need to stand
together to achieve equal rights. No matter how much you might disapprove
of each other's sexual activities.
Dr. Jeffrey
Klausner, who heads the sexually transmitted disease prevention effort at the
San Francisco Department of Public Health, bases his conclusion on a new study
of 239 gay or bisexual men who reported no anal or vaginal sex and no
injection-drug use in the prior six months. Ninety-eight percent said they had
given head without condoms. Twenty-eight percent said they knew their partner
was HIV-positive, and of those, 39 percent said they had swallowed semen. None
of the men became infected.
The risk of
HIV transmission via oral sex, Klausner maintains, "is very, very, very,
very, very low and may be zero."
A 2002
Spanish study supports Klausner's view. Researchers there followed 110 women
and 25 men, all HIV-negative, for 10 years. Each participant had an
HIV-positive partner. The investigators estimated that over the course of the
study, the couples engaged in 19,000 acts of unprotected fellatio or
cunnilingus. None of the negative partners converted.
There is some dissent, however.
Klausner's comments set off
Rex Wockner, a journalist whose syndicated news stories and commentaries have
appeared in the gay press for 18 years. "I know four people who I believe
when they tell me that they seroconverted from sucking," Wockner told the
Voice. Of those four friends, Wockner notes, one is now dead.
"It's great news that
guys in San Francisco are out there sucking dick and they are all still
negative," Wockner says. "The unfortunate thing about this study is
that nobody asked them how many times they did that. Doing it only once and
staying negative doesn't prove a thing." Kimberly Page-Shafer, the San
Francisco study's lead author, did not return phone calls from the Voice.
And of course, it's not all
good news.
It is indisputable that oral
sex can transmit syphilis, gonorrhea, herpes, warts, and other diseases. (The
city's health department recently noted a 50 percent increase in syphilis
cases, mostly among gay men.) However, when it comes to HIV, researchers have
two different missions. One is to document risky behavior for individuals; the
other is to establish which practices could change the course of a deadly
epidemic. Some researchers argue that if gay men adopted fellatio as their
sole sexual behavior, the AIDS epidemic in that population would disappear.
You'll note that I have almost
entirely refrained from any bad pun-type jokes for the duration of this news
item. And yes, it's killing me.
So just to drop one in, I was
discussing oral sex and penis size with a woman last week, and she was asking me
how large I was when erect. I didn't want to tell her, since we were
teasing and joking around and she wouldn't tell me what size her... wait, why am
I explaining this?
Anyway, I didn't tell her, but
told her I was so large she wouldn't believe it if I gave her a number.
She asked again, and I said, "No, you'd never believe it. It's too
hard to swallow it."
I then ran a victory lap for my
successful delivery of the worst pun thus far in 2003. And no, no one else
has thought this story was funny yet. See "swallow" =
"believe", as well as um... you know. Okay, do I at least get a
bonus point for thinking of it with bang-bang timing during the conversation?
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