Can HPV be transmitted through oral sex?
Yes, genital HPV types can be transmitted during oral sex. Condoms don’t prevent the transmission of HPV…HPV can be transmitted during hand to sex play. HPV does affect men…they just don’t have the same health burdens as a women does…no they can’t get cervical cancer…in men genital HPV is linked to cancer of the penis..but this cancer is rare. Oral sex can get most men’s attention. The topic becomes considerably more relevant, however, when coupled with a new study linking the human papillomavirus (HPV) to an increased risk of a kind of oral cancer more often seen in men. The study, which appears in this week’s New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), shows that men and women who reported having six or more oral-sex partners during their lifetime had a nearly ninefold increased risk of developing cancer of the tonsils or at the base of the tongue. Of the 300 study participants, those infected with HPV were also 32 times more likely to develop this type of oral cancer than those
