I've been pubting over 20 years and I still talk about STI's.
You sound great company
Catching something from OWO is actually pretty easy.
No. It's ONLY pretty easy to catch if she HAS it. Yes, it is highly contagious, and without quoting a lot of studies, which I think people find boring, it's one of the most contagious of STIs. You could even catch with a condom and vaginal sex if it breaks or you've fingered her an transmit it as you're taking the condom off etc, though transmission with condom use is thought to be fairly rare. HOWEVER
very few people, relatively and fortunately, even prossies, have STIs. If I was shagging a dodgy street whore I might ask for a condom before oral.
Although it is easy to catch if she has it, the chances of her having it, or of any of her clients having it before she notices, are still tiny.
1 in 100. Recent
External Link/Members Only. figures (which are higher than ours are 120 in 100,000, so if you shagged 100 people, ONE of them might have it
About 1 in 500. The most recent figures I've looked at for the U.K. are a few years old but were 27 per 100,000 of population, i.e. a 0.00027 per cent chance of shagging someone who has it.
Add to that that oral transmission, as far as I understand, is less common than vaginal. Another thing that occurs to me is that it is more frequently without symptoms in women, especially if they have it in their throat, but with men you are more likely to have symptoms so can easily do something about it.
So if you are shagging away from home, for instance, you want to leave a week to see if symptoms develop so you can get them treated. (Chlamydia is more prevalent and the incubation period less well defined but, about three weeks max is a common estimate if you're worried about that. Its also treated with antibiotics.) Thrush is not considered an STI cos a woman can have it without having caught it sexually, but it can be transmitted sexually (symptoms not so obvious in men but treatment is same -- canestan or similar which is available over the counter.)
I can understand prossies not wanting to be bothered with the risk, especially if they have a regular partner and don't want to live half their lives in the gum clinic;
but for anyone else, especially PUNTERS I don't think there is any data that is worth scaremongering over. If you have a civie partner or wife that you shag without protection, well you don't want to get caught out, do you, in which case take more care; for everyone else, it's up to you, but I don't personally plan to stop having OWO when its on offer.
I think it is a stupid fucking thread. I've tried to throw some common sense stuff in as I do read medical reports (which anyone can do) but don't quote me, and
for someone seriously to ask why punters prefer OWO, it makes me wonder whether they have ever had unprotected sex in their whole life. Or maybe they haven't had sex. Who knows. This is not a sexual health forum ffs (and it's a schoolboy type question;
goodnes knows how the thread hasn't been locked.)
For newbies and idiots I recommend this highly technical video where they can see themselves. External Link/Members Only