Maya
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I've wondered though if you can contract it by receiving oral sex? I can't seem to locate a clear answer. If it can effect your throat, I don't see why the mouth can't effect the genitals, but I don't know. Risk may be less.
I found this article about HPV:
http://blogs.menshealth.com/health-headlines/should-you-stop-having-oral-sex/2011/03/01
The article is from 2011 but I thought I'd share this information:
Why You Shouldn’t Worry
Now for a sigh of relief: “Most people who give or receive oral sex will not get HPV. And most people who get HPV will not go on to develop cancer,” says Debby Herbenick, Ph.D., research scientist at Indiana University and author of Because It Feels Good. Less than 1 percent of all people are infected with the type of HPV most likely to cause throat cancers, says Kreimer. Chances are, most of these cases will go away on their own without causing symptoms or progressing to cancer.
Even with the increase, HPV-related head and neck cancer is still rare, affecting about four in every 100,000 people. And studies show it’s much less lethal than other types of cancer.