AMA Study on Oral Sex

[Guest 7Zach]

"A new study suggests that the virus that causes Kaposi's sarcoma, the cancerous skin lesions commonly associated with HIV/AIDS, may be primarily transmitted through unprotected oral sex, and not unprotected anal intercourse as first thought."

 

Had never heard this.

http://www.gay.com/news/article.html?2002/01/09/2

[Guest tmbg]

"This is not scientific fact, this is a scenario that might explain what we have seen," Osmond said. "But oral intercourse among gay men, specifically transmission from saliva to the penis, would make it harder [for the virus] to move out of the gay population," he said.

 

Osmond said further studies must be done before a warning is issued for gay men to change their sexual behaviors. But he said at this time people should know that KSHV might be acquired through oral sex. Still he says it's important to note that if a person's immune system is healthy, it's unlikely the virus will lead to symptoms of Kaposi's sarcoma."

 

There is so much "double speak" in the above two paragraphs I had to check the author's name to rule out Ronald Regan :-)

 

 

Cheers! Ritchie