A BBC documentary presented by Jaime Winstone will examine the link between oral sex and rising numbers of mouth and throat cancer cases among young people - described as 'an emerging epidemic' by a Cancer Research UK expert.
Rates of oral cancers have gone up by 50pc in men since 1989 and are rising by 3pc a year in women, even as smoking, once thought to be the major cause, declines.
Oral cancers alone kill around 1,800 people a year.
Scientists have provided growing evidence over the last decade of the link between the human papillomavirus (HPV), which is passed from person to person during sexual activity, and an increased risk of developing oral cancer. It is better known as a major cause of cervical cancer.
"The evidence suggests that people are more likely to have an HPV-linked cancer if they have had multiple sexual partners and practised oral sex, whether they are men or women," the Guardian quoted Lesley Walker, cancer information director at Cancer Research UK, as saying.
"Winstone's documentary could have a very useful role to play," she added.
Lesley also noted that vaccination of schoolgirls against HPV should ultimately reduce the level of infection but condom use is already proven to lessen the risk.
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Friday, October 29, 2010
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Condom how-to's for better protection
Use of the male latex condom can reduce (though not eliminate) the risk of spreading STDs.
Using male condoms seems pretty easy, too. But condoms don't work unless you use them — correctly — every time you have sex. All it takes is one unprotected act of intercourse to infect your partner with an STD, which you may not even know you have.
So, again: Use a new latex condom every time you have sex.
Studies show that this isn't happening. According to the Minnesota Student Survey, a health and safety questionnaire administered every three years to teenage students, only 66 percent of male 12th graders and 59 percent of female 12th graders used a condom the last time they had intercourse.
Similarly, if condoms are not used correctly every time, the protective effect may be reduced. Using the condom incorrectly can lead to breakage, slippage, or leakage. The most common mistakes are:
■Putting the condom on after sexual activity has started
■Putting the condom on incorrectly
■Failing to withdraw the penis while it is still erect
If you're using a latex condom every time, great. But to be sure you're getting the most possible protection from condoms, carefully read these instructions the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
■Use a new condom for every act of vaginal, anal and oral sex-throughout the entire sex act (from start to finish).
■Before any genital contact, put the condom on the tip of the erect penis with the rolled side out.
■If the condom does not have a reservoir tip, pinch the tip enough to leave a half-inch space for semen to collect. Holding the tip, unroll the condom all the way to the base of the erect penis.
■After ejaculation and before the penis gets soft, grip the rim of the condom and carefully withdraw. Then gently pull the condom off the penis, making sure that semen doesn't spill out.
■Wrap the condom in a tissue and throw it in the trash where others won't handle it.
■If you feel the condom break at any point during sexual activity, stop immediately, withdraw, remove the broken condom, and put on a new condom.
■Ensure that adequate lubrication is used during vaginal and anal sex, which might require water-based lubricants such as K-Y JellyTM, AstroglideTM, AquaLubeTM, and glycerin. Oil-based lubricants (e.g., petroleum jelly, shortening, mineral oil, massage oils, body lotions, and cooking oil) should not be used because they can weaken latex, causing breakage.
Using a condom correctly and consistently shows that you respect yourself and your partner!
Using male condoms seems pretty easy, too. But condoms don't work unless you use them — correctly — every time you have sex. All it takes is one unprotected act of intercourse to infect your partner with an STD, which you may not even know you have.
So, again: Use a new latex condom every time you have sex.
Studies show that this isn't happening. According to the Minnesota Student Survey, a health and safety questionnaire administered every three years to teenage students, only 66 percent of male 12th graders and 59 percent of female 12th graders used a condom the last time they had intercourse.
Similarly, if condoms are not used correctly every time, the protective effect may be reduced. Using the condom incorrectly can lead to breakage, slippage, or leakage. The most common mistakes are:
■Putting the condom on after sexual activity has started
■Putting the condom on incorrectly
■Failing to withdraw the penis while it is still erect
If you're using a latex condom every time, great. But to be sure you're getting the most possible protection from condoms, carefully read these instructions the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
■Use a new condom for every act of vaginal, anal and oral sex-throughout the entire sex act (from start to finish).
■Before any genital contact, put the condom on the tip of the erect penis with the rolled side out.
■If the condom does not have a reservoir tip, pinch the tip enough to leave a half-inch space for semen to collect. Holding the tip, unroll the condom all the way to the base of the erect penis.
■After ejaculation and before the penis gets soft, grip the rim of the condom and carefully withdraw. Then gently pull the condom off the penis, making sure that semen doesn't spill out.
■Wrap the condom in a tissue and throw it in the trash where others won't handle it.
■If you feel the condom break at any point during sexual activity, stop immediately, withdraw, remove the broken condom, and put on a new condom.
■Ensure that adequate lubrication is used during vaginal and anal sex, which might require water-based lubricants such as K-Y JellyTM, AstroglideTM, AquaLubeTM, and glycerin. Oil-based lubricants (e.g., petroleum jelly, shortening, mineral oil, massage oils, body lotions, and cooking oil) should not be used because they can weaken latex, causing breakage.
Using a condom correctly and consistently shows that you respect yourself and your partner!
Does O'Donnell Want the Whole Country to Stop Having Sex?
(Sept. 24) -- Stop, in the name of love?
In newly unearthed video footage taken from a 2003 taping of the MSNBC show "Scarborough Country," Delaware senatorial candidate Christine O'Donnell is shown debating the topic of sexual abstinence and appears to suggest that the whole country should give up sex (presumably the premarital kind).
The exchange came with Eric Nies of the Moment of Hope Foundation, a group that seeks to educate young people about safe-sex practices. Here's how the back-and-forth went:
NIES: I tell them to be careful. You have to wear a condom. You have to protect yourself when you're going to have sex, because they're having it anyway. ... There's nothing that you or me can do about it.
O'DONNELL: The sad reality is -- yes, there is something you can do about it. And the sad reality, to tell them slap on a condom is not --
NIES: You're going to stop the whole country from having sex?
O'DONNELL: Yeah. Yeah!
For years, O'Donnell was a talk show fixture as she promoted an agenda of social issues. As a result, a veritable trove of clips has surfaced since O'Donnell defeated mainstream GOP incumbent Mike Castle in the Republican Senate primary two weeks ago. Since then, news organizations have reaired footage of O'Donnell declaring that the Bible forbids masturbation, that she once had a date on a satanic altar and that she herself "dabbled in witchcraft."
O'Donnell has recently said that many of her religious views have softened since a good many of the interviews were filmed. She has still not cleared up allegations about fabricating her educational records, however.
In newly unearthed video footage taken from a 2003 taping of the MSNBC show "Scarborough Country," Delaware senatorial candidate Christine O'Donnell is shown debating the topic of sexual abstinence and appears to suggest that the whole country should give up sex (presumably the premarital kind).
The exchange came with Eric Nies of the Moment of Hope Foundation, a group that seeks to educate young people about safe-sex practices. Here's how the back-and-forth went:
NIES: I tell them to be careful. You have to wear a condom. You have to protect yourself when you're going to have sex, because they're having it anyway. ... There's nothing that you or me can do about it.
O'DONNELL: The sad reality is -- yes, there is something you can do about it. And the sad reality, to tell them slap on a condom is not --
NIES: You're going to stop the whole country from having sex?
O'DONNELL: Yeah. Yeah!
For years, O'Donnell was a talk show fixture as she promoted an agenda of social issues. As a result, a veritable trove of clips has surfaced since O'Donnell defeated mainstream GOP incumbent Mike Castle in the Republican Senate primary two weeks ago. Since then, news organizations have reaired footage of O'Donnell declaring that the Bible forbids masturbation, that she once had a date on a satanic altar and that she herself "dabbled in witchcraft."
O'Donnell has recently said that many of her religious views have softened since a good many of the interviews were filmed. She has still not cleared up allegations about fabricating her educational records, however.
Expert Says Sexsomnia Runs in the Family
The first evidence that sexsomnia - the bizarre act of having sex while asleep - could be genetic has been found by scientists at Victoria University.
In his 16 years as a sleep expert, Gerard Kennedy, an associate professor in psychology, has met a man, who an hour after falling asleep would roll over and begin "rough, mechanical" sex with his wife. The next morning he would have no recollection of the act.
A few suburbs away, his adult son was doing the same, much to the chagrin of his girlfriend.
"This could be the first case in the world where we can see it runs in families," he said.
In both men, the sex started about 50 to 70 minutes after falling asleep, always when they were in the first deep stage of sleep, before dreaming began.
Both men were "rough and mechanical with no concerns for their partner's position or comfort" and neither could be deterred from their mission, even if they were yelled at or hit, said Kennedy.
The part of the brain that controls movement is gradually switched off during sleep as a child becomes a teenager, which is why many children "grow out" of sleepwalking or night terrors.
But in some teenagers that never happens, leaving them as parasomniacs with inappropriate arousals during sleep, causing them to walk, eat or have sex.
After 20 years of sexsomnia, the older man's wife left him. He sought help because he was worried that a new partner might find his behaviour equally disturbing.
Both men have been prescribed a short-acting benzodiazepine, which sedates them enough in the early stages of sleep to stop the behaviour.
A patient, while on a trip with his mates, claimed he was asleep when he visited a nightclub, drank alcohol and took a woman back to his hotel room for sex.
"His girlfriend believed him, but I didn't," the Sydney Morning Herald quoted him as saying.
This unusual case would be presented at the Australasian Sleep Conference in Christchurch.
In his 16 years as a sleep expert, Gerard Kennedy, an associate professor in psychology, has met a man, who an hour after falling asleep would roll over and begin "rough, mechanical" sex with his wife. The next morning he would have no recollection of the act.
A few suburbs away, his adult son was doing the same, much to the chagrin of his girlfriend.
"This could be the first case in the world where we can see it runs in families," he said.
In both men, the sex started about 50 to 70 minutes after falling asleep, always when they were in the first deep stage of sleep, before dreaming began.
Both men were "rough and mechanical with no concerns for their partner's position or comfort" and neither could be deterred from their mission, even if they were yelled at or hit, said Kennedy.
The part of the brain that controls movement is gradually switched off during sleep as a child becomes a teenager, which is why many children "grow out" of sleepwalking or night terrors.
But in some teenagers that never happens, leaving them as parasomniacs with inappropriate arousals during sleep, causing them to walk, eat or have sex.
After 20 years of sexsomnia, the older man's wife left him. He sought help because he was worried that a new partner might find his behaviour equally disturbing.
Both men have been prescribed a short-acting benzodiazepine, which sedates them enough in the early stages of sleep to stop the behaviour.
A patient, while on a trip with his mates, claimed he was asleep when he visited a nightclub, drank alcohol and took a woman back to his hotel room for sex.
"His girlfriend believed him, but I didn't," the Sydney Morning Herald quoted him as saying.
This unusual case would be presented at the Australasian Sleep Conference in Christchurch.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Catholic Church Distributes Condoms
Switzerland 25.10.2010 - The Catholic Church of Lucerne, Switzerland is promoting the use of condoms on the 25th till the 27th of October with a its slogan "Schütze deinen Nächsten wie Dich selbst". This is a modification of the phrase "Thou Shalt Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself" using protect instead of love.
The Church will be present with an Aids-Truck in front of the Lucerne train station to discuss the subject at hand and educate people about the current situation in some African countries right now.
As Father Alois Metz points out, the organisation is well aware of the controversy that condoms are causing in the Catholic Church. But they believe - in tune with an auxiliary bishop from Hamburg - that whoever is sexually active and is looking for several partners, should also protect everyone involved.
The Church will be present with an Aids-Truck in front of the Lucerne train station to discuss the subject at hand and educate people about the current situation in some African countries right now.
As Father Alois Metz points out, the organisation is well aware of the controversy that condoms are causing in the Catholic Church. But they believe - in tune with an auxiliary bishop from Hamburg - that whoever is sexually active and is looking for several partners, should also protect everyone involved.
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