Dental Dams: A Practical Guide to Safer Oral Sex
Oral sex is often treated as the “low-risk” category of sexual activity — and compared to vaginal or anal sex, that description is partly fair. But “lower risk” is not “no risk.” Gonorrhea, chlamydia, syphilis, herpes, and HPV can all spread through oral contact, usually without noticeable symptoms in the person passing them on. That…