Kissing is a risk factor for throat gonorrhea

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(Reuters Health) - Deep kissing with tongue may be a way that gonorrhea is passed on, even if romantic partners haven't been otherwise sexually ...

- Deep kissing with tongue may be a way that gonorrhea is passed on, even if romantic partners haven't been otherwise sexually active, according to research from Australia.

"Kissing may be riskier than previously thought," Chow told Reuters Health by email."This may help people understand how the infection was introduced, particularly if they haven't been sexually active." The odds of having throat gonorrhea nearly doubled for those with four or more kissing-only or kissing-with-sex partners. In addition, younger men had greater odds of having throat gonorrhea, which was associated with younger men having more kissing-only partners, the study team notes.

"This can be tough to study because people are not isolated and do all of these behaviors in the same setting," Barbee told Reuters Health by email."It's hard to tease out which encounter or sexual behavior transmitted the infection."

 

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