Blowjobs Give Cancer

Stop Freaking out...calm down and I'll explain. A new study in the New England Journal of Medicine has found a link between the Human Papilloma virus (HPV) and throat cancer. The findings confirm that oral sex is a risk factor for throat cancer. Although the risk is relatively small, the study, and much of the straight media, seem to be placing little importance on what this means for gays.

For years now, gay men have been told that, similar to cervical cancer in women caused by HPV, we should get regular anal PAP smears to see if we have the virus. Yet, we're given no information in this study that might even suggest how concerned gay men should be about oral sex, including the regular blowjob, but just as important, rimming. Basically, if we're told we should get PAP smears, it would naturally follow that there's the potential for HPV to exist in a guy's butt. So, rimming has the potential of transferring HPV to the rimmer, see?

I have read the full report, done by John's Hopkins, and nowhere in the report is there a mention of gays, and so we, and our gay and gay-friendly doctors, are left making assumptions and guesses as to how this news affects our health.

I am not a doctor, and none of this should be considered medical advice from yours truly, but what I'm trying to do is point out that this report and its media coverage all but ignore gay men, for which this study clearly affects, and they shy away from its implications to gay men. Why does that sound so familiar? Silence = Death.