What is oral sex?
Oral sex (oral sex) is a form of sex using oral (including lips, teeth and tongue) in contact with the sexual organs of a partner during sex. The movements in oral sex can be using the mouth, tongue to contact the genitals such as penis, vagina, anus of the opponent to cause sexual pleasure and arousal.
Advantages of oral sex
According to research, the majority of men are more interested in using their mouths during sex, which can be a great foreplay, bringing excitement to both.
- Oral sex makes men feel less stressed and less likely to develop colon cancer.
- Satify your sexual needs and reduce the negative consequences of having sex during pregnancy.
- According to many studies show that many women feel happy and achieve orgasm during oral sex.
- Oral sex helps improve the effectiveness of pregnancy and helps strengthen brain power, prevent breast cancer.
- Having oral sex helps remove both people's inferiority complexes about their physical appearance, or their initial embarrassment to help their love sublimate. Many couples confide, after oral sex, they become more aware of each other due to the feeling that the barriers between the couple have been removed.
- Oral sex, because you don't ejaculate directly into the vagina, cannot conceive, which is a great method of contraception for couples.
Risk of infection from oral sex
Oral sex is not necessarily as safe as people think, but it also has the potential for infectious diseases, such as those listed below:
HPV infection and cancer risk: HPV (Human Papilloma Virus) is a very dangerous virus, it spreads quite quickly and is known as one of the causes of genital warts or cervical cancer. If a person does oral sex with a partner who has HPV in their mouth, he or she will get HPV and vice versa, the throat will also get HPV from the genital organs. Like all other viruses, not everyone with HPV has cancer, only people with weak conditions, frequent stress, a weakened immune system, causing HPV to develop into uterine cancer or cancer. nasopharynx.
Herpes: Vaginal and oral sex are both capable of infecting two basic types of herpes viruses, HSV1 and HSV2. However, oral sex carries the risk of spreading the virus more quickly and widely, even during the incubation period.
HIV infection: Although oral sex is safer than vaginal or anal sex, the risk of infection with this century is still high due to oral sex.
Hepatitis B: The hepatitis B virus is easily spread through oral sex. When you have had the hepatitis B virus from a sexual partner, you are also at risk for hepatitis A.
Injury to genital area: When oral sex, due to improvisation, there are too strong actions, causing teeth and lips to rough contact with the genital area causing injuries. Genitals may bleed, itch, rashes, easily lead to infection. When the genital area is compromised, the available bacteria, which reside in the throat, in the oral cavity will quickly penetrate and cause gynecological diseases in both men and women.
Safe oral sex
- Avoid oral sex when your partner shows signs of abnormalities in the genital organs such as pimples, sores, odors, drainage ...
- Use a condom or diaphragm
- Maintain hygiene before and after sex, especially in the anus region where many bacteria are still not transmitted.
- If there is an open wound in the mouth (such as a fever, lesions, gingivitis ...), you should not try oral sex because the risk of spreading the disease is very high.
- After oral sex, do not brush your teeth immediately because then the gums (gums) are vulnerable, the virus is easy to penetrate. You should only clean your mouth with mouthwash or water, diluted saline.
- Only have oral sex with someone you trust, not infected with HIV and sexually transmitted diseases. Do not have sex with multiple partners.
- Should not oral sex when not ready to lead to psychological effects on sex in the next visit.
We can not deny the advantages of oral sex, but also need to consider before implementation. Oral sex should not be used when the genital area shows signs of infection, scratches or the opponent has sores in the mouth, bleeding teeth. The safest way is to use a condom or diaphragm to ensure safety