Posted on 03/08/2018 2:39:41 PM PST by LiveFreeOrDie2001
Five years ago, when actor Michael Douglas candidly revealed that his throat cancer was linked to having oral sex, two things happened.
He made headlines that mortified his family. And he helped publicize the fact that a pervasive, sexually transmitted virus called HPV was unleashing an epidemic of oral cancer among men.
Since then, scientists have made headway in figuring out why HPV, the human papillomavirus, has this glaring gender bias. Men are four times more likely than women to be diagnosed with oral cancer, a hard-to-detect, hard-to-treat disease that has overtaken cervical cancer as the most common HPV-related malignancy in the United States.
To be sure, changes in sexual norms over the last few generations have played a role in this alarming trend. But research increasingly shows the real problem is something men have practically no control over: their immune response.
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I'm not touching that one with a ten-foot...pole.
Not my invention. It is the common vernacular.
Might explain why that Soetoro fella has disappeared from society in recent weeks.
When I read it, the first thing I thought was, "How much did Merck* pay to have this article written and placed?"
*(patent-holder of the vaccine, Gardasil)
As a comp case manager, cynicism is one of my skills-you can never be too careful, and some paranoia is a virtue...
I’ve known my guy since college-we have mutual friends and I’m rather suspicious by nature-like a lot LEOs, he’s careful about his reputation-he hasn’t been a skank-so we committed to one other from the gitgo.
He was 56 years old when he married her; and somehow I doubt he stayed a virgin through the 60s and his first marriage that preceded marrying her. As the article pointed out, the virus can lay dormant for decades after exposure. Prurient questions like yours are the reason his family were mortified.
No, men have oral sex with women, too. He was a notorious womanizer before marrying CZJ.
Thanks, WC, I never thought about that before, being married for 30+ years, but being a horn dog prior to that. Hope you're wrong. Been good for 30+ years.
Making it with a virus? Ew.
“For the record I say that people who are concerned they will expose themselves to HPV ought to get vaccinated.”
The issue with this - is that they pretty much offer it to preteens or teens before they have had any sexual encounters. The vaccination is not offered to those who have already become sexually active.
Sir, you have overstepped your boundries of protocol at Free Republic. Only "Laz the Great" can judge what can be hit or not and how many beers it takes. You must apologize to Laz for your temerity to judge. Laz is always right though I do suspect on rare occasions his judgement is clouded by adult beverages, as was mine in my youth.
Sobriety the next morning can be a very ugly thing and the hangover is the least of ones problems. What really hurts if your companion feels the same way the next morning.
:) :) What say you Laz?
No reason the cancer could have had other causes then sexual or someone may have been unfaithful in the marriage.
Why do all the girls in the job commercials look like lesbos?
Why do all the girls in the hpv commercials look like lesbos?
Uh, Michael Douglas has a son from is first marriage.
Yes; as I said, "somehow I doubt he stayed a virgin through the 60s and his first marriage that preceded marrying her."
How is it Gene Simmons is in perfect health?
LOL, all the germs kill each other off.
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