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I am a healthy 46 year old woman. My boyfriend is a 47
year old quad. We have been together for a year now. We
have found many ways to be sexually intimate with each
other even though he can't bang me. One of the things he
enjoys is my giving him head. He has an indwelling
catheter which we usually leave in. Can I contract any
infections from doing this? I've been a little concerned since
he has frequent bladder infections.
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by Yvonne Fulbright: (05/15/2004)
Glad to hear you have discovered ways to pleasure
each other. While performing oral sex on your partner
carries little risk of contracting an infection specific to his
bladder infection, the other risks of getting a sexually
transmitted disease (STD) from oral sex remain.
Gonorrhea and chlamydia are two bacterial infections to be
particularly weary of when 'giving head'. Both of these STDs
can infect an individual's mouth and throat during
unprotected oral sex. The herpes virus is another STD that
can easily be transmitted via oral sex. For example, a
person with oral herpes (your classic cold sore) can give
his/her partner genital herpes through oral-genital contact.
Furthermore, the STD HIV should not be completely
disregarded either. Though HIV transmission through oral
sex is low-risk, the virus can be transmitted through tiny
tears in the mouth or via bleeding gums during oral sex.
With or without the indwelling catheter in place, because
of STDs like these it is always a good idea to practice safer
sex. The catheter does not prevent you from using a
condom. Once the penis is fully erect you can bend the
catheter down along the shaft of the penis and slip a
condom right on over it. And this doesn't have to be just
any old condom! One of the best things about practicing
safer sex is that it can get really tasty! Condom
manufacturers these days make all sorts of condoms to
make oral sex more pleasurable for the giver as well as the
receiver. So use condoms in flavors like chocolate or
strawberry and go to town pretending that your devouring
an ice cream cone as your mouth works its way up and
down his shaft. A little hungry perhaps? Get an edible
condom that you can eat after oral sex, in flavors like Pina
Colada. Special sex shops also sell flavored gels and lubes,
i.e. Irish Creme flavor, to make sex a tad tastier. You can
even find tastier sex supplies in your own kitchen cabinet if
you have a handy jar of honey or bottle of chocolate syrup
to grab the next time you need to make that condom
tasty.
Tip: If you use a condom during oral sex, make sure that it
isn't a spermicidally lubricated condom! Yuck!Reviewed by Sexual Health Editorial Team
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