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...tend to worry a lot more about the health hazards of anal sex than oral. Everybody knows, after all, that it's much easier for the virus that causes AIDS to cross the lining of the rectum than to infect someone through the mouth. Or is it? The surprising results of a study on rhesus monkeys published last week in Science not only suggest otherwise but also underscore how little scientists know about how, at the microscopic level, HIV spreads from one person to the next...
...study, scientists from Boston's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Tulane University tried to infect 15 sedated monkeys with SIV, the simian cousin of the AIDS virus. To simulate oral sex, researchers dribbled an SIV solution onto the tongues of seven animals. Then, for comparison, they carefully placed SIV in the rectums of eight other monkeys. Much to their surprise, they found that it took less of the viral solution to infect a monkey orally than rectally--6,000 times less...
...particles found in an infected man's semen--though not in the saliva--is sufficient to be passed on through the mouth or throat. One likely route: the tonsils, which contain large numbers of the kinds of lymph cells favored by HIV and SIV. "We're not saying that oral exposure is more dangerous than anal exposure," notes Dr. Ruth Ruprecht of Dana-Farber. "What we're saying is that oral sex is not safe...
...kind of strange, because they were trying to do it like a thesis defense," recounts Chen, whose thesis consisted of original poetry. Of her three oral graders, only one had read Chen's work...
...think it would have helped if they had read it," says Chen. "They weren't experts in contemporary American poetry. I think it would have been more helpful if I'd had a more general oral...