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From: RWALKER%TRINITY.BITNET@oac.ucla.edu (Robert S. Walker)
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Subject: Re: (1205) Re: Transmission
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Tim: there is no need to 'guess' about the ease of transmission via oral sex.
There are no documented cases of seroconversion due to oral sex.  Masters
and Johnson say 'there must be some cases' but produce none.  See: The
Lancent, Feb. 14, 1987, Journal of the Amer. Med. Assoc., vols. 257(3),
259, and 255 for the technical studies looking for such transmission.  The
expert opinion is that this is a theoretically possibility (everything is
theoretically possible), but not real life possibility.  Canada's govenment
brochures have already stopped mentioning the possibility.  But you know the
good old USA where sex is concerned.  Many think any oral sex is sinful and
if it is sinful then it must be dangerous, etc.  Kiss, etc. away!
Bob Walker