Men who use their mouths during foreplay are more at risk of developing oral cancer than women are.
Staggeringly, they are diagnosed with the HPV-related illness four times as much as females.
Experts believe that this could be because men tend to have lower immune systems.
Human papillomavirus (HPV) is considered to be the most wide-spread STD.
It’s believed to affect four in five people worldwide.
Many of these cases do not escalate into anything serious, as the body’s immune system can flush out the virus.
If you contract a high risk strain of HPV, throat or mouth cancer could manifest.
Men are more likely to be diagnosed with the sexually transmitted disease, which is a trigger of cancer.
They may also find it harder to fight the infection using the body’s natural defences.
Ashish A. Deshmukh, a University of Florida HPV researcher, said: “There is good evidence that men acquire oral infections more readily than women, even if they have similar sex practices.
“And more than the acquisition, it’s the persistence of the virus.
“The clearance rate is not that fast in men.”
Statistics from the NHS note that heterosexual men in their 40s and 50s are diagnosed the most.
Worryingly, throat and mouth cancers have soared more than 300% over the past two decades.
Of these cases, the sexually transmitted virus is detected 70% of the time.
