Doctors note that in the last 20 years there’s been a rapid increase in tumors of the throat, tonsils and base of the tongue. And people getting these cancers don’t have the typical risk factors. They may not be older patients who have smoked.

The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) hopes to better research how HPV affects head and neck cancer rates. An article at WebMD states that around 60% of patients with head and throat cancers today are infected with HPV. Compare that to only 20% of head and neck cancer patients infected with HPV 20 years ago.

According to WebMD, around half of the head and throat cancers diagnosed now are caused by HPV infection. That’s not all: Unprotected oral sex can also spread chlamydia and gonorrhea.

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Unprotected Oral Sex Can Cause HPV, Cancer

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I was blown away even more when I told my husband and he told me it wasn’t a shock to hear the girl had been raped in the girl’s bathroom, that it had become a common thing to have sex in the bathroom at school, however it was disgusting that she’d been raped and he hoped the father took justice. Boy was I behind the times.  This morning though, I watched as young girls talked so openly about oral sex and how it has become more popular than that first kiss.

One girl said, “I ended up having sex with more than one person that night and then in the morning I was trying to get morning-after pills,” one of the girls said. “I was, like, 14 at the time.”

Another stated, “Oral sex to me, isn’t really that big of a deal.”

But the one that surprised me, “5 minutes for $100, well I’m going to probably do it with them anyways because they are good looking. Why not get paid for it?”

Believe it or not, some girls are even doing prostitution and you wouldn’t even know it because they are all home before dinner. Some girls are having sex to better their grades, become popular, for money and clothing/stuff.  During the video below they say 54% of teen girls between 15-19 will have oral sex.  What’s worse was learning that teens think of oral sex as nothing more than a kiss and that a kiss is no longer an intimate thing. Do you remember that first kiss you had? I can tell you when, where and how old I was. Today, many kids have forgotten that first kiss as it happened when they were young and before all the other kisses, sex and oral sex. But they can probably tell you the first time they had an orgy/oral sex, etc.

Girls at the age of 11 are going to sex parties and actually engaging in them. Not just sitting around watching or playing dress up, putting make up on etc, these days it is much more grown up than that. No longer is it spin the bottle for that first kiss, now it gets more involved than that. Could you imagine walking in on your son or daughter doing this? What about finding out that they attended one of these parties?

Signs he/she may be doing it:

-  Child is coming home with items you didn’t buy.
-  Child has more money then you’ve given him/her.

Those are just two things. Now that you’ve read this, what do you think? Do you have the type of communication where you will know that your child is doing this? Or will you be just as shocked as some of the mothers that saw this video were?

http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/Parenting/story?id=7693121&page=1

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Teens: Oral Sex is the New Goodnight Kiss

Study participants who reported having more than six oral sex partners in their lifetime were 8.6 times more likely to develop the HPV-linked cancer.

Oral HPV infection has been found to be the strongest risk factor for throat cancer, as reported by the researchers in the May 10 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

Guess how you’ll get HPV down your throat? By having multiple oral sex partners!

According to the study’s investigators:

Oral sex, including both fellatio and cunnilingus, is the main mode of transit for oral HPV infection, although mouth-to-mouth transmission remains possible and was not ruled out by the current study.

HPVs also can be transmitted by skin contact and are found in the mucus of the genital tract, and in saliva, urine, and semen. Both men and women contract the ubiquitous virus in equal numbers.

Not convinced yet? Read the full report.

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Oral Sex and Throat Cancer