Health Risks And Stomach Fat
Oral sex is the term used for several sexual activities that involve stimulating the genitals with mouth, lips and tongue. Oral sex is used in both homosexual and heterosexual relationships.
Oral sex includes several sexual activities like fellatio, cunnilingus, anilingus, felching, facesitting, sixty-nine position, eighty-seven position etc.
A study report issued in September 2005 by the National Center for Health Statistics revealed that oral sex among teens is "on the rise". The study surveyed over 12,000 Americans between the ages of 15 and 44, and divulged that over half the teenagers questioned have had oral sex. The study also revealed that oral sex is very common among the dedicated virgins.
According to another study, 70% of women never or seldom achieve orgasm during intercourse, and cunnilingus may be a way for women to achieve orgasm with a partner. Some heterosexual couples use fellatio as a substitute for intercourse during the woman's menstrual cycle.
Oral sex may or may not include the ingestion of semen and vaginal fluids. Organically, semen contains water, small amounts of salt, protein, zinc, and fructose sugar. It is slightly alkaline which causes some to find the taste bitter or brackish, but neither male nor female sexual bodily fluids are in themselves harmful to a sexual partner, apart from concerns of STDs.
Studies have confirmed the fact that sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including HIV, can be transmitted through oral sex. Thus any kind of direct contact with body fluids of a person infected with HIV (the virus that causes AIDS) should be avoided.
Oral sex should also be avoided with the sexual partner having wounds or open sores on the genitals or mouth, or bleeding gums in the mouth, or has recently brushed, flossed, or undergone dental work. These wounds, even when they are microscopic, increase the chances of contracting STDs, which can be transmitted orally under these conditions.
Another study has linked oral sex with oral cancer. A research study in 2005 at the College of Malmö in Sweden suggested that performing unprotected oral sex on a person infected with HPV might increase the risk of oral cancer.