Have you talked with your teens/older kids about O.D.?

[taeja71]

With borrowing the text from the What if your teen girl came home preganant I began thinking about oral disease(s). O.D. is/can be just as bad and deadly to your children (no matter how old they are).

It´s interesting how many people seem to have a clear vision of what they would do if their teen contracted an oral disease(s).

Would/do you talk with your teens/ adult teens about O.D.? Do you talk about what they are and the disease(s) temporary/permenant effects to the mouth/body? The facts from this one website is mind boggling. We as a nation/country/planet are supposed to learn from our mistakes and we are making things worse. I think I could deal with the body piercings or the tats better than things that will kill my child, alter his/her future, or perminately change my lifestyle (like becoming a grandmother).

Main Category: S*x*al Health/STDs News
Article Date: 16 Sep 2005 - 15:00pm (UK)

According to a study carried out by the National Center for Health Statistics, there seems to be a shift taking place in the sexual practices of American teenagers. Many see oral s(x as a safer alternative to full s*x*al intercourse.

American teens are being told to take measures to reduce the risk of contracting a STD and teenage pregnancy. Could this ‘safer alternative' be a response to this campaign?

Even though many STDs can be transmitted during oral sex, less than one tenth of teens use a condom during oral s*x. Oral s*x can increase the risk of contracting:
-- Syphilis
-- Genital Herpers
-- Gonorrhea
-- Human Papillomavirus

Could it be that teens (and adults) feel more comfortable talking about their sexual experiences? Perhaps, in the past, people may not have admitted to things they would happily confess to today.

12,571 people were interviewed in their homes for this study. All respondents were told they would remain anonymous.

Here is a list of highlights from the report:

Teens

Age 15-19
-- 12% boys, 10% Girls were virgins but had experienced hetero oral s*x.

Homosexual Sexual Activity

Men, age 15-44
-- 3% had had anal or oral s*x with another man (during the last 12 months)
-- 6% had had anal or oral s*x with another man (in their lifetime)

Women, age 15-44
-- 4% had had a s. experience with another woman (during the last 12 months)
-- 11% had had a s. experience with another woman (in their lifetime)

1% of men and 3% of women 15-44 years of age have had both male and female s*x*ual partners in the last 12 months.

for the full article see link provided http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=30746&nfid=rssfeeds

Here's the link to the other article originally posted. I found the above aricle to be more specific to my question. http://www.silverringthing.com/national_summit02.html

 

[beckmrk04]

"oral" as in mouth disease? Or was this a typo, since you are talking about STDs?

 

[JVL1018]

I have never even heard of oral disease..I thought it was called venereal<sp> disease before we started calling them STDs.

 

[Keli]

The term 'oral disease' is throwing me off here but then I'm never current with new terms so maybe it's just me.
I think most parents would do exactly the same thing if their child came home with a STD. You'd take them to the dr and get them the medical care they need.

 

[beckmrk04]

Yeah- it's called venereal, or std, or the new is STI, s-t- infection. But oral means mouth. Like oral herpes, or oral cancer... Oral-B toothbrushes...

 

[Pugdog007]

I'd take her to a dentist and fast.

 

[taeja71]

sorry, here's link to the article Italicized http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=30746&nfid=rssfeeds Read it and keep in mind the oral concept. I am referring to oral b/c you just don't have to have tab a into tab b s*x any more to contract any of the listed diseases. My own thread is grossing me out.

 

[taeja71]

I have never even heard of oral disease..I thought it was called venereal<sp> disease before we started calling them STDs.

see the link to the article I forgot to post. Not only can you get the same diseases down there you can get them in your mouth too. I'm going to borrow what pugdog said, I'm going to get my Oral B toothbrush and call it a night. I look forward to your replies. If there are no replies, I can assume the following either you don't talk to your teens about O.D., you deny it even existing, not know what it/they are, etc. OR the DIS mods pulled this thread.

 

[beckmrk04]

well, even if it is contracted orally, it would still be an STI or STD.

And I would teach mykids that this is a possibility and reality, but not much sense in berating them after the fact. I would take them to a doc and hope it was a curable one, for their sake.

 

[Sparx]

I've taken two classes on this to date. I'm 14. Did you know that every teen girl who becomes pregn. has probably gotten 2.3 stds, be them oral or not. (I'm almost positive on that. Its been awhile since that last class)

Oral diseases are just as bad as the other ones. They can do a serious number to your teeth, and leave perminant damage. but HPV is the most dangerous. (I'm not sure if you can get that in your mouth or not)

Girls have it harder off with STDs because of how we are made. We've got an open reproduction system. Guys have a closed one. Its easier for a girl to be infected.

 

[va32h]

I guess I'm not getting the question.

Could I deal? Well I'd have to, wouldn't I? What's the opposite of dealing with it, putting my fingers in my ears and pretending I didn't hear?

"How would you deal" makes more sense. Lots of hugs (they will probably feel ashamed, horrified, and scared), best possible medical care, followed by a serious discussion about their sexual activity.

As it happens, two years ago I was diagnosed with cervical cancer, as the result of HPV. My dr. said my husband or I could have contracted the virus up to ten years prior. One of his other HPV patients was diagnosed 8 years after her husband died - the virus can remain dormant for several years.

After the birth of my last child, I had to have so much of my cervix removed that I can no longer sustain a pregnancy (which is fine with me now, but at the time was quite traumatic).

So I already have a cautionary tale for my girls...a reminder that even though it is hard to see it at the time, decisions you make when you are 18 or 19 can significantly affect your life a decade later.

 

[taeja71]

I guess I'm not getting the question.

Could I deal? Well I'd have to, wouldn't I? What's the opposite of dealing with it, putting my fingers in my ears and pretending I didn't hear?

"How would you deal" makes more sense. Lots of hugs (they will probably feel ashamed, horrified, and scared), best possible medical care, followed by a serious discussion about their sexual activity.

As it happens, two years ago I was diagnosed with cervical cancer, as the result of HPV. My dr. said my husband or I could have contracted the virus up to ten years prior. One of his other HPV patients was diagnosed 8 years after her husband died - the virus can remain dormant for several years.

After the birth of my last child, I had to have so much of my cervix removed that I can no longer sustain a pregnancy (which is fine with me now, but at the time was quite traumatic).

So I already have a cautionary tale for my girls...a reminder that even though it is hard to see it at the time, decisions you make when you are 18 or 19 can significantly affect your life a decade later.

Sorry, I've been DISing too long. Here's my question, Would/do you talk with your teens/ adult teens about O.D.? Do you talk about what they are and the disease(s) temporary/permenant effects? I modified it in my original post.

Oral sex experienced by half of US 15-19 olds, 70% of 18-19 year olds




Here's a more specific article related to my OP.
Main Category: S*x*al Health/STDs News
Article Date: 16 Sep 2005 - 15:00pm (UK)

According to a study carried out by the National Center for Health Statistics, there seems to be a shift taking place in the sexual practices of American teenagers. Many see oral sex as a safer alternative to full sexual intercourse.

American teens are being told to take measures to reduce the risk of contracting a STD and teenage pregnancy. Could this ‘safer alternative' be a response to this campaign?

Even though many STDs can be transmitted during oral sex, less than one tenth of teens use a condom during oral s*x. Oral s*x can increase the risk of contracting:
-- Syphilis
-- Genital Herpers
-- Gonorrhea
-- Human Papillomavirus

Could it be that teens (and adults) feel more comfortable talking about their sexual experiences? Perhaps, in the past, people may not have admitted to things they would happily confess to today.

12,571 people were interviewed in their homes for this study. All respondents were told they would remain anonymous.

Here is a list of highlights from the report:

Teens

Age 15-19
-- 12% boys, 10% Girls were virgins but had experienced hetero oral s*x.

Adults-hetero activity

Men, age 24-44
-- 97% were not virgins (heterosexual)
-- 90% had had oral sx with a female
-- 40% had had anal sx with a female
Among females, the proportions who have had sexual contact with a male partner were similar.

Number of s*x*al partners of the opposite s. in their lifetime

Homosexual Sexual Activity

Men, age 15-44
-- 3% had had anal or oral s*x with another man (during the last 12 months)
-- 6% had had anal or oral s*x with another man (in their lifetime)

Women, age 15-44
-- 4% had had a s. experience with another woman (during the last 12 months)
-- 11% had had a s. experience with another woman (in their lifetime)

1% of men and 3% of women 15-44 years of age have had both male and female s*x*ual partners in the last 12 months.

for the full article see link provided http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=30746&nfid=rssfeeds

I'm sorry. I'm DISing way too late. I'm a mother to a new generation (my eldest is 6)and compared to when I was a teen talking about S*x was not as previlent as today. So, you parents of teens/older teens, have you/do you talk to your kids about orally contracted diseases along with talking to them about S*x. Sorry for any and all redundancies. Some of you got what I was posting, thanks for sticking with me as I clarified myself to death. Sure wish I could make this thread disappear.

 

[taeja71]

whoops