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Thursday, February 26, 2004

WHAT WILL WE TELL THE CHILDREN!?!?

A story from Reuters announces that oral sex causes cancer of the mouth!

Before Bush gets all righteous and blames Clinton for this, we should remember a couple of things:
1) Heavy drinking causes more mouth cancer (that, couple with cigarettes, accounts for 75-90% of cases of mouth cancer), and which sitting president used to do that?
and
2) You need to go down on someone with HPV first. HPV is, for those of you who didn't have a good non-abstinence-only sex education, the virus that can cause cervical cancer. The study shows that HPV can be transmitted orally, leading to possible cancer of the mouth. So if you're clean, keep at it!

(link via Jesse)

UPDATE: Jack has more over at TigerHawk.

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