With the resurgence of established sexually transmitted diseases such as syphilis and gonorrhea, and the widespread prevalence of emerging sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV, more and more people choose [oral sex] as a safe alternative to release sexual desire.
While enjoying the physical and mental pleasure brought by oral sex, people often ignore it:
Although oral sex will not make you pregnant, almost all sexually transmitted diseases can be transmitted through oral sex.
In other words, seemingly [safe] oral sex is not as safe as you think.
Oral sex, as a kind of [unconventional] sexual behavior, seems to have not been recognized in the [sexual circle], and even many people who oppose premarital sex do not reject oral sex.
There is no denying the fact that oral sex is becoming more and more common as a way for people to [express love], whether you are male or female, like the opposite sex, the same sex or both men and women.
Despite the heavy taste, we still need to discuss all the situations that may spread diseases. Therefore, the oral sex behavior discussed below not only refers to the oral sex of mouth-to-penis type in the general sense, but also includes oral sex methods such as mouth-to-vagina (licking yin) and mouth-to-anus (licking anus).
Now, let’s take a look at how oral sex is related to various sexually transmitted diseases.
Syphilis)
Syphilis, an ancient and classic sexually transmitted disease, its prevalence reflects the degree of sexual activity of the social population.
The pathogen of syphilis, Treponema pallidum, exists in large quantities in skin and mucosal lesions such as hard chancre and is transmitted from person to person through direct contact.
After syphilis spreads through the whole body of the blood system, its skin and mucosal damage can be distributed in the external genitals and perianal areas of men and women, as well as in the oral cavity and other parts, and generally does not hurt, and is often easy to ignore without careful examination.
Therefore, if your sexual partner suffers from syphilis and you do not notice the lesions that exist in the pudendum or oral cavity, the pathogen can easily be transmitted from one party to the other through oral sex.
In fact, in some areas, nearly 15% of syphilis cases are infected due to [unprotected oral sex].
Early syphilis can be clinically cured and infectious by sufficient and standardized penicillin treatment. However, if treatment is not timely, late syphilis will cause irreversible systemic multi-system damage such as nerves and blood vessels.
Gonorrhoa (Gonorrhoa)
Gonorrhea is a common sexually transmitted disease caused by gonococcus. Relatively speaking, women are more vulnerable to gonorrhea than men, which can cause infertility in serious cases.
In recent years, many patients with throat and oral inflammation have always failed to recover after routine treatment. Experienced doctors took samples from the lesion and put them under a microscope, and found Neisseria gonorrhoeae.
In patients infected with gonorrhea, gonococcus will multiply in large quantities in their genitourinary tract to cause suppurative inflammation, which will be discharged with secretions during sexual behavior, thus infecting one vulva from the other oral cavity through oral sex.
On the contrary, if one side’s oral cavity is infected by gonococcus, gonococcus can also infect the other side’s reproductive organs through oral sex.
Oral throat inflammation caused by gonococcus may have no symptoms, and may also have obvious non-specific diseases such as throat pain, suppurative tonsillitis or lymphadenopathy.
Therefore, without pathogen examination, gonococcal oral infection is easily confused with other infectious diseases and is relatively difficult to treat.
AIDS/Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
As we all know, unprotected anal sex and vaginal sex transmit HIV, but not many people understand that oral sex can also transmit HIV despite low risks.
No matter whether the other party ejaculates in the oral cavity or not, there are reports of oral sex practitioners infected with HIV. These oral sex practitioners said that they have no other form of [high-risk behavior] except unprotected oral sex.
Researchers calculated that the risk of HIV infection among oral sex practitioners is roughly 1/10,000. Ejaculation in the oral cavity, wound ulcers or other inflammation in oral throat and other parts, and other factors such as other sexually transmitted diseases at the same time will increase the risk of HIV transmission through oral sex.
As for oral sex patients, although HIV virus can be detected in saliva, the content is very low compared with semen and vaginal secretions, and some components of saliva can inhibit HIV activity. Therefore, as long as the other party is not full of blood like the mouth just after tooth extraction, it is relatively rare for sexual organs to be infected with HIV through contact with saliva.
In addition, there are a few reports that other oral sex behaviors such as licking yin and anus may lead to HIV transmission, although these cases cannot rule out whether there are other forms of high-risk behaviors between the two parties involved, so it cannot be completely determined that oral sex is the cause of transmission.
Genital herpes/Herpes simplex virus (HSV)
It is estimated that many people have had the experience of blisters in their mouths. In fact, blisters in their mouths are caused by HSV infection. This virus is easy to spread and almost everyone has it. Under normal circumstances, they coexist peacefully with us. When human immunity drops, they come out to make waves.
The upper mouth will grow blisters (herpes labialis) and the lower [mouth] will also grow (herpes genitalis), but the pathogens are somewhat different.
Herpes labialis is mainly caused by HSV-1 and genital herpes is mainly caused by HSV-2. However, in recent years, it has been continuously reported that HSV-1 is the pathogen of many new genital herpes, and the proportion of HSV-1 virus detected in female patients’ pudendum is higher.
Asking about the medical history, it was found that most of these female patients had received [Yin licking service].
During oral sex, different types of herpes viruses are like distant relatives who have not seen each other for a long time, happily [rotating and jumping] in the genitals and oral cavity of both sides, so many patients with genital herpes also suffer from viral pharyngolaryngitis.
Moreover, even in the latent stage without obvious symptoms, herpes virus transmission can still occur. What’s more, HSV can be transmitted through skin contact. Therefore, although the use of oral sex condoms or acyclovir and other antiviral drugs can reduce the risk of transmission to some extent, it cannot completely eliminate transmission.
Condyloma acuminatum/Human papillomavirus (HPV)
You may not be familiar with HPV, but you certainly know the disease [condyloma acuminatum]. Anyway, every time I go to a telegraph pole or a public toilet in my hometown, I have to say hello to the disease.
HPV is the main culprit causing condyloma acuminatum.
HPV is a large family. Friendly ones such as 6 and 11 mainly lead to various genital warts, while worse ones such as 16 and 18, persistent infection may lead to multiple swollen malignant tumors such as cervical cancer and anal cancer.
Generally speaking, the earlier the first sexual behavior occurs and the more sexual partners there are, the greater the risk of HPV infection.
Recently, it was found that the detection rate of HPV virus types 6, 11, 16, 18, etc., which were mainly infected with reproductive organs, increased in oral environment. Moreover, high-risk HPV infection, especially HPV-16 infection, is also related to the occurrence of oropharyngeal tumors, so oral sex has also become the main risk factor for oropharyngeal condyloma and some tumors.
Similar to the herpes virus,HPV It is also transmitted through direct contact, so many preventive measures cannot effectively block transmission, but the recently listedHPV Vaccines give people more choices. At home, not for the time being.
Hepatitis)
You are not wrong, hepatitis virus can indeed be transmitted through sexual behavior, whether hepatitis a, hepatitis B or hepatitis C, can be regarded as sexually transmitted diseases in a broad sense.
The classic transmission routes of hepatitis B and hepatitis C are the same as HIV, which are transmitted through blood, mother-to-child and sexual transmission. However, hepatitis a is mainly transmitted through [fecal-oral route].
All kinds of hepatitis virus antigens can be detected in blood, semen, saliva and even feces, that is, these body fluids contain hepatitis virus. Infection may occur if wounds or mucosa are exposed during sexual life and body fluids with enough virus are contacted.
Epidemiological investigation shows that STD patients, sex workers and same-sex or heterosexual people with more sexual partners have a higher proportion of hepatitis. Compared with hepatitis B, hepatitis C is less transmitted through sexual contact.
At present, there is no definite evidence that hepatitis B and hepatitis C can be transmitted through oral sex, but for hepatitis a, licking anal oral sex is indeed a high-risk factor for infection. Due to asymptomatic rectal hidden hemorrhage, licking anal can also cause hepatitis B transmission.
Fortunately, both hepatitis a and hepatitis B can be prevented by vaccination.
Vaginal infection
In fact, bacteria, fungi and various microorganisms settle in the vagina of normal women. These small organisms restrict and balance each other to help maintain human health. However, once the delicate balance between these microorganisms is broken, infection occurs.
Vaginal infection does not belong to sexually transmitted diseases in the conventional sense, such as mycotic vaginitis, which is mainly caused by the use of contraceptives and antibiotics changing the internal environment of the vagina and is not easy to spread through sexual intercourse.
However, Candida albicans, the main pathogen of mycotic vaginitis, still exists in 20% ~ 50% of normal people’s oral cavity. Lick vaginal oral sex can transmit fungi in oral cavity to vagina.
In addition, lysozyme and other bactericidal substances in saliva will also destroy the normal flora environment in the vagina, thus facilitating the germination of existing fungal spores in the vagina and leading to recurrent vaginal inflammation.
Can these diseases be prevented?
Having said so much, the readers estimated that they had already blown up their hair: Do you still let people not love well? To be honest, it is enough for me not to post the picture.
I am not asceticism, but there is absolutely no price for what in this world. If we want to enjoy our intimate relationship, we must be psychologically prepared to suffer from [unspeakable] problems. To ensure safety, one may have to sacrifice some physical and psychological pleasure.
Because few people know that oral sex can also spread so many diseases, fewer people insist on using oral sex condoms or condoms during oral sex.
I really didn’t come to [Amway] for oral sex condoms, but in the absence of vaccines, insisting on using condoms or oral sex condoms has significant preventive effects on serious transmitted diseases such as syphilis, gonorrhea and AIDS.
Of course you can choose to trust your partner, but what I want to say is that no one can be responsible for your health except yourself. In fact, in this era when all kinds of apps are flying everywhere, people are very careful when making appointments. On the contrary, because they trust their male and female friends too much, they often get careless.
Even if we are really ill, we don’t have to blame ourselves too much. I am naturally very happy that you are willing to send the money to the hospital for us.
Most sexually transmitted diseases can be cured or controlled through standardized treatment.
The reason why some problems are described in the article as slightly horrible is that we mainly hope [to fully understand the physical condition of ourselves and our partners, not to give our own safety to others under any circumstances, and not to bring risks to others as much as possible]. Such sexual safety awareness can be kept in mind by all of us. Only by being careful about love can we rest assured of love.