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POPSClueless on STDs, Throat Cancer, and Oral Sex Clipmarks and the internet in general are loaded with "sexy" clips, videos, cartoons, etc... So I thought a small dose of the down-side of promiscuity was fair and maybe informative. "...well over half of American teens now engage in oral sex..." Read it and weep.
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POPSA Medical Controversy "National gay rights groups were quick to label such talk as “hysteria,” even as researchers as the university scrambled to clarify their findings. On Friday, it issued an apology, saying their release had “contained some information that could be interpreted as misleading. ndeed, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, which helped finance the study, affirmed on Wednesday that the disease was not sexually transmitted or limited to a certain type of person. It is transmitted through skin-to-skin contact, the agency said in a statement, and is widespread in hospitals and among hospital workers."
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POPSMRSA USA300 hits whom it wants. “It’s really meant to be used to mean all inclusive, including the men-who-have-sex-with-men population,” he said. “It’s not just gay people that get it,” he said. “You can get it anywhere.” Indeed, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, which helped finance the study, affirmed on Wednesday that the disease was not sexually transmitted or limited to a certain type of person. It is transmitted through skin-to-skin contact, the agency said in a statement, and is widespread in hospitals and among hospital workers. “These infections occur in men, women, adults, children and persons of all races and sexual orientations,” the statement read, adding that while the particular strain identified in the report had been found in gay men, it had also been found in people who were not gay. (NYT)
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POPSIndigenous SEX Wipeout Deliberate? Survival International Survival's director Stephen Corry stated, "Tribal people die because their land is invaded and taken and because they succumb to outside diseases they never knew before. Increasingly now we can add HIV/AIDS to the list of killers. "It is striking the most vulnerable peoples of all: those who have no grasp of the risks of unprotected sex; no access to condoms; no appropriate treatment; and whose numbers are already small. The first solution is the simplest - governments must ensure tribal lands are properly protected."
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POPS WHAT IS MOST IMPORTANT TO A CONSERVATIVE Well, I went into the Conservapedia site and it seems the top ten questions on the mind of your average right-wing, Limbaugh hugging, Fox Noise viewing, Ann Coulter nonsense reading, conservative has changed somewhat. AND THE WINNER IS ... HOMOSEXUALITY etc... hmmmm, I wonder why that is? (Really, are they searching for enlightenment or ammunition... it's your guess...) CLICK THIS LINK TO SEE THE VIDEO: http://thinkingblue.blogspot.com/2007/11/conservapedia-see-what-is-on-mind-of.html
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POPSChamber of Commerce Begs for Help While not a humorous topic I couldn't help flashing on the furrowed brows within the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce as they wrestle how to work this into their next tourist promotion.
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POPSU.S. sets record in sexual disease cases The increase is relative to U.S. figures There are likely to be higher rates elsewhere, but the trend, is an indication of the ability of bacteria to develop immunity to antibiotics.Apart from the unsafe sex practices. It seems to be becoming more of a threat because people have not yet listened to alerts to the continued adaptation of bacteria to overcome the barriers that we put up against them. For the sake of sex, we can choose not to remember the risks. If someone already has a virus, they aren't afraid of catching it
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POPSBabe Ruth hot dog New York writers termed his illness “The Bellyache Heard Round the World,” but in recent years historians have speculated that Babe actually suffered from gonorrhea and not acute indigestion
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POPSDrug-resistant Gonorrhea Spreading in U.S. Multi-resistant diseases are become a huge concern and could propel infectious disease control back to the pre-penicillin era. Very worrying. Overzealous use of antibiotics can lead to resistant bacteria
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POPSYou're Never Too Old For Sex...or STDs! 
"However, Dr. Hutcherson says that's a fallacy. Patients often are too shy to ask their doctors difficult sexual questions -- so doctors need to ask them directly, she says. "I say, 'How's your sex life?' and then wait for the answer. And that normalizes and makes it much easier for an older woman to say, 'Well, there are some issues that I want to talk to you about.'" Author of "What Your Mother Never Told You About S-e-x" and a columnist who writes for Essence and Glamour magazines, Dr. Hutcherson is blunt about asking her patients if they're practicing safe sex. It could save their lives. Statistics show that although the highest number of new HIV cases is in people in their thirties and forties, there are now more patients being diagnosed in their fifties than in their twenties. 'Sex Is Life-Long' So, once they're practicing safe sex, Dr. Hutcherson says it's time to make sure they're having enjoyable sex. "Sex is life-long," she says. "You should never give up on somethin