Gay throat
How to Identify, Treat, and Prevent Oral Gonorrhea
If you’ve received a diagnosis or have been with someone who has, you should inform all recent sexual partners so they can be tested.
This includes anyone you’ve had sexual contact with in the 2 months before your symptoms started or your diagnosis.
Talking with your current or previous partners can be uncomfortable, but it needs to be done to avoid the risk of serious complications, transmitting the infection, and developing the infection again.
Being prepared with information about gonorrhea, its testing, and treatment can help you answer your partner’s questions.
If you’re worried about your partner’s reaction, consider making an appointment to see a healthcare professional together.
Here are some things you can say to get the conversation started:
- “I got some test results today, and I think we should talk about them.”
- “My medic just told me that I have something. There’s a chance you own it, too.”
- “I just start out that someone I was with a while back has gonorrhea. We should both get tested to be safe.”
In some states where it is legally permitted, clinicians will offer as it helps prevent r
Gonorrhoea found more frequently in the throat than any other site in queer men
Gay men should have regular throat swabs to check for infection with gonorrhoea, American investigators emphasise after a study conducted in San Francisco found that 6% of gay men had the sexually transmitted infection in their throat, usually without any symptoms. The study, which is published in the November 15th edition of Clinical Infectious Diseases (now online) also start that the throat was the most common site for gonorrhoea infection in gay men and that younger age and a greater number of oral sex partners were significantly associated with gonorrhoea of the throat.
The US Centers for Disease Governance reported that in 2003 the prevalence of gonorrhoea amongst gay men was 15%. Earlier studies looking at the prevalence of pharyngeal gonorrhoea – gonorrhoea of the throat – amongst same-sex attracted men have establish a prevalence of between 3% and 15%. However, there are a lack of longitudinal statistics from an on-going cohort of lgbtq+ men looking at the prevalence, incidence and risk factors for gonorrhoea infection in the throat.
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Deep (tongue) kissing may be an vital and neglected path for passing on throat (oropharyngeal) gonorrhoea among gay and bisexual men, suggests Australian research, published online in the journal Sexually Transmitted Infections.
Strains of gonorrhoea that are resistant to antibiotics are becoming more shared in many countries, sparking concerns that the infection will become increasingly hard to treat.
But universal health campaigns to curb the spread of the infection among gay and bisexual men include focused on promoting condom use, in the belief that most gonorrhoea is passed on during sex, say the researchers.
To assess whether throat (oropharyngeal) gonorrhoea might be passed on through tongue kissing either by itself or as part of sex, the researchers gathered information from brand-new and returning homosexual and bisexual patients at a major public sexual health service in Melbourne, Australia in 2016-17.
The 11,442 men were invited to load in a terse survey on their sexual practices with male partners over the past three months. Practices were categorised as kissing with no sex; sex with no kissing; and kissing with sex.
Some 3677 completed surveys from 3091 men were