But it is important for them to know that our scientific understanding of risk of STDs from oral sex isn't very well defined.
One finding that worries Halpern-Felsher is that a small but significant proportion of teens think oral sex carries zero physical risk.
The piece then offers question-and-answer-based advice from the research psychoanalyst and author , who has published a book on sexuality called The Guide To Getting It On! The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Condé Nast.
In the , Paltrow's lifestyle site, readers are told that if "anal turns you on, you are definitely not alone".
There was also an increase in rectal sex among young women, "but it was a lot less common than oral sex," Erbelding said.
It very well might be a big deal.