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[vicarz]

Yoinked from Kangal: we all a gonna die. For serious.
http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/05/study_links_ora.html
Lots of talk about HPV lately, but I'm sorry if this makes me stupid - I never heard of oral HPV before. I only recently realized that there is no test available for men to determine if they carry it, no cure, and it is tranmissable without any symptoms at all. Now this study talks about oral HPV, and the possibility you can get it KISSING (the focus is on oral sex). So you can have an untreatable asymptomatic potentially fatal STD from kissing.

Yeah, sorry, I'm going to die - plain and simple. Might as well smoke.

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[feistydiva.livejournal.com]

http://www.ashastd.org/learn/learn_hpv.cfm

They make a few references to oral transmission on this site. I've seen some mention of it on other sites as well. Basically, it looks like HPV affects "mucous membrane" sort of tissue (like genital skin).

http://www.thehpvtest.com/

This site is great for information regarding preventative measures. It's concise and brief. There are also some links on the profile page for hpv.

I need to e-mail you about brunch. My bad. I procrastinate.

[vicar.livejournal.com]

No problem - still pencil'd in :)

[unapologetic.wordpress.com (from livejournal.com)]

C'mon, we can spin this right. Does the HPV vaccine work against this strain? You know, the one the Christian fundies don't want us to use 'cause it'll encourage girls to (gasp) have premarital sex. Well now it's protecting them against premarital kissing, which isn't a damnable offense.

Hm...

[pennan.livejournal.com]

I could not find which strain they said caused the throat cancer (or even if they tested by strain). The vaccine is only proven against strains 6, 11, 16, and 18, and but so far it's been shown to protect against other strains as well. Viruses are damn interesting.. hm.. creatures? Not sure how one defines what a virus is - like, half alive, half chemical rxn.

I truly don't understand the "don't vaccinate because it will lead to risky behaviours" mentality. It actually just says "since I can't have total control over my child, I will deliberately keep them at risk so that it'll help me discourage what I deem as un-moral behaviour". They don't trust their ability as parental figures to teach their children, and they don't trust their children to behave responsibly when given choices. Nice.

I'm right there with you Vicar - may as well smoke at this point. ;-D

[innanition.livejournal.com]

Not using a dental dam... not for kissing, not for anything.

nuh uh.

And that sums up my contribution on this pressing social issue :-D

...oh yeah, I'll take one of those cigarettes now... At least that way I have something else I could pin it on rather than being a oral sex slut... hate to have to tell people I was dying because I gave too much head.

Cigarettes are more dignified.

[vicar.livejournal.com]

Agreed in part, but I'd rather say I died from whoring about than taking drugs that didn't get me high. Death by debauchery? Makes me sound like a pirate!

[desiringmachine.livejournal.com]

i don't know, giving head doesn't leave my clothes all stinky or stain my hands/teeth...

would have been nice if I'd had all this information when I was 14-15 or so and not having sex of any kind but given that it's too late now I'm not going to worry too much about a cancer that's relatively rare.