He's probably talking about this study which was widely circulated.
In a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2007, researchers suggested that people who have oral sex with at least six different partners have a significantly higher risk of developing throat cancer.
The team recruited 100 patients who had recently been diagnosed with oropharyngeal cancer, as well as a control group of 200 healthy individuals.
They found that people who had at least six oral sex partners during their lifetime were 3.4 times more likely to have throat cancer. Those with 26 or more vaginal sex partners had 3.1 times the risk of developing throat cancer.
The presence of oral HPV that could cause cancer was found in another study to be 14.9 percent in men who smoked tobacco and have had more than five oral sex partners.
Men with one of those risk factors saw a lower risk of throat cancer at 7.3 percent. Prevalence was much lower for both men (1.7 percent) and women (0.7 percent) who have had one lifetime oral sexual partner or less.
Many media outlets have represented this data poorly, framing oral sex as a direct cause of cancer.
njayhuang on September 17th, 2019 at 18:53 UTC »
He's probably talking about this study which was widely circulated.
kerrangutan on September 17th, 2019 at 19:14 UTC »
Due to Stefan and Peter, I automatically assume anyone with the surname Molyneux is a massive bellend
SenseAmidMadness on September 17th, 2019 at 21:35 UTC »
If only there were some vaccine that could reduce the risk.