Many in U.S. playing a risky game of sex

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How risky is your sex life?

MSNBC.com and Zogby International asked online readers to share some intimate details about their personal lives, and more than 56,000 adult men and women — one of the largest responses ever to a sex survey in the United States — revealed that many are playing a pretty risky game.

The survey, which was released Monday, found that while a majority of the survey participants consider themselves knowledgeable about AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, many are in denial when it comes to sex with someone new.

Just 39 percent of people who took the survey always ask whether a new partner is infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, or other STDs. Nearly one-third said they never check on a prospective partner's sexual health status, and among those with less than a high school education, almost 50 percent never discuss the issue of STDs with a new partner — troubling statistics given the deadliness of AIDS and rising rates of genital herpes and other diseases.

[Atlas Sneezed]

>There is also a risk to the insertive parnet for anal sex

Minimal (unless he has genital sores from other diseases at most, and probably nonexistent, and simply an artifact of reporting dishonest of those who claim never to receive.

>and a risk to the female during vaginal sex.

Yes, but it takes on average 500-1000 acts of this to be likely to transmit.

>There has even been oral transmission from lesbian to lesbian.

If they have bleeding gums and mouth sores, I suppose, but the exceptions prove the rule.