A new study has discovered that
gonorrhoea, a s3xually transmitted disease (STD), can also be transmitted
through deep kissing.
Gonorrhoea is an infection caused
by bacteria that can live in the genitals, mouth, anus and eyes. Previous
health research has mainly linked the infection transmission to s3x.
However, scientists at Monash
University and Melbourne University, Australia, have found that saliva exchange
during tongue kissing, otherwise known as ‘French kiss’, increases the risks of
contracting the infection.
“It has been proposed that
gonorrhoea can be transmitted through kissing, but kissing has always been
neglected as a risk factor for gonorrhoea transmission,” Eric Chow, lead
researcher and his colleagues, said in their research.
“Our data provide the first
empiric evidence that gonorrhoea may be transmitted from one man’s oropharynx
to another man’s oropharynx through tongue-kissing.”
For the study, the researchers
conducted a survey on 367 gay and bisexual males in Australia. They analysed
participants sexual activities with their partners based on three categories–
kissing only, s3x only, and kissing with s3x.
Published in the S3xually
Transmitted Infections journal, findings of the study revealed that the
proportion of men with the infection was higher in a small group of 52 men who
only kissed men in the past three months.
Also, more than six per cent of
the participants had oropharyngeal gonorrhoea, otherwise known as throat
gonorrhoea, in the survey group.
The study also found that those
who only had s3x without kissing had the least risk of contracting the
infection than those who kissed, and participants who had both s3x and French
kissing.
Participants who fell under the
kiss and s3x category had the highest risk — 81 per cent, of getting the
infection.
This empirical study introduces a
new approach to the study of gonorrhoea treatment, prevention and transmission.
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