Originally posted by Mystech
The end of what, exactly? You say it as though you mean the end of the world, how exactly is homosexuality going to bring that about?
Mystech, ask SpyMoose to give you a link showing any respectable doctor who is willing to write an article about the healthiness of anal sex? Afterall, SpyMoose have an article for everything.
Diseases From Anal Sex
Can you get any diseases from anal sex?
Harold Oster
Dr. Oster is an infectious disease specialist at Scripps Clinic Medical Group in San Diego, California.
Anal sex can result in a variety of illnesses. I will mention only the more serious. A rare but life-threatening complication of anal sex is rupture of the rectum, resulting in a severe bacterial infection. This can occur with anal sex and with the insertion of various objects into the rectum. Care must be taken to avoid serious injury to the area.
Most of the other illnesses due to anal sex involve infections as well. The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is the virus that causes AIDS. Anal sex with someone who carries HIV poses a high risk for transmission of the virus. Homosexual men in the United States have HIV at a higher rate than heterosexual men, but this is not true outside the Western world. The first people who contracted HIV in the United States probably were homosexual men, and they first transmitted the virus to other homosexual men. Anal sex, mainly because of the trauma that can occur with it, allowed for the efficient transmission of HIV among these men. It was only later that the virus began to spread to women and heterosexual men. Anal sex without a condom between a woman and a man will transmit HIV as efficiently as between two men.
Other viruses can be transmitted through anal sex quite easily. These include hepatitis B and hepatitis C, which cause liver disease. Possibly Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), which causes mono, and cytomegalovirus (CMV) can also be transmitted in this way. Another cause of liver disease is the hepatitis A virus. It is transmitted through contact with the feces of someone with the virus, so anal sex may increase the risk of acquiring that infection.
In addition to these organisms, a variety of infections can be transmitted that predominantly cause infection in the rectum and colon. Some refer to these diseases as "gay-bowel syndrome," but that is a misnomer because any recipient of anal sex (including heterosexual women) can develop such an infection. The syndrome includes diarrhea, fever and lower abdominal pain. Various infections can cause these symptoms, including gonorrhea, chlamydia, lymphogranuloma venereum, shigella (a cause of dysentery) and herpes. An infection such as this would be termed "proctitis," or rectal infection. When I see a patient with signs and symptoms of proctitis, and the patient is a recipient of anal sex, I consider infection to be highly likely.
by Harold Oster
Pain After Anal Sex
My fiance has been asking me for a year and a half to have anal sex. I finally gave in. He had barely penetrated before I made him stop because it hurt really bad. Ever since then, I've been in pain. It's been over two weeks and it still stings and burns every time I have a bowel movement. I've started using baby wipes instead of toilet paper because they're softer. I've also tried using a stool softener, but it doesn't seem to have done much good. Is it possible that there is an infection? Is there any way I can tell without going to the doctor? Is there anything else I can do at home to help things heal?
-- Rebecca
Kelly Shanahan, M.D.
Chair of the OB-GYN department at Barton Memorial Hospital in Lake Tahoe, Dr. Shanahan is a partner in Woman to Woman Health Care, a private medical practice.
The tissues of the anus/rectum were not designed for intercourse and are more vulnerable to injury than are vaginal tissues. Certainly if you are either physically or emotionally uncomfortable with any type of sex act, you should not engage in it.
The most likely scenario is that you have an anal tear or fissure. Keeping your stools soft by drinking lots of water and using a stool softener as needed will help promote healing. But because you are still experiencing pain after two weeks, you really should see your doctor. In addition, if there is any blood in or on your stool, your doctor needs to rule out a more serious injury. Also, if your partner has an infection, such as genital warts or herpes, you may have been infected; again, your doctor can address this.
Your doctor should be sensitive to your discomfort in discussing anal intercourse; you should not be belittled or ridiculed or made to feel ashamed for engaging in anal sex. Anal sex is not shocking to most physicians.