Contents:
- Medical Video: Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Types, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment
- How can disease be transmitted through anal sex?
- Infectious diseases that can arise as a risk for anal sex
- 1. Hepatitis
- 2. Giardiasis
- 3. Tipes
- 4. Dysentery (shigellosis)
- 5. E. coli infection
- 6. Amebiasis
- 7. Worms
- Always use protectors when having sex to avoid transmission of the disease
Medical Video: Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Types, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment
Sex does not merely involve the penetration of the penis into the vagina. For gay people or couples who like to "adventure", anal sex can be an alternative to seductive lovemaking style. Maybe you are familiar with the name rimming, aka stimulating the anal opening with the tongue or lips. Sometimes, there are also couples who have anal and oral sex for each other as a foreplay technique before penetration.
But do you know that there are some infectious diseases that lurk you from this sexual activity? The following are the risks of anal sex you need to know.
How can disease be transmitted through anal sex?
Anal penetration sex is at high risk for spreading venereal disease than other types of sexual activity. Because the lining of the anus skin is thinner and easier to tear than other parts of the body so that penile penetration can tear the anus skin and make it the main gate for infectious viruses to enter the body. Venereal diseases that can be transmitted through anal sex include chlamydia, herpes, genital warts, gonorrhea, hepatitis B, HIV, and syphilis.
But even if both partners do not have venereal disease, some "common" diseases caused by bacteria or viruses can be transmitted through variations in anal sex which moves from the anus to the mouth. For example, style 69, rimming then oral sex aka blowjob,rimming then kissing, or penile penetration into the anus and then receiving oral sex. This is because it is possible for you or your partner to swallow stool contaminated with infection while stimulating the anus with the mouth or tongue.
The spread of disease through the anus-to-mouth pathway can still occur after you and your partner have finished having sex. Sometimes, anal sex is done by inserting a finger into the anus as a form of male G-spot stimulation or prostate massage. When your hand as a "service" giver touches the faeces of the partner's anus during anal sex and escapes washing your hands well afterwards, you can still swallow feces that may be left between nails when you eat later.
Infectious diseases that can arise as a risk for anal sex
Diseases that can be transmitted through anal-oral sex (rimming), include:
1. Hepatitis
Hepatitis A and E are the two types of hepatitis that are most often transmitted through sex rimming. Kissing or having oral sex after rimming can also spread this virus. The reason, the main route of transmission from hepatitis A and E is to swallow feces contaminated by the virus. Hepatitis in general does not show significant symptoms at first, which may include symptoms are the body becomes yellow, fatigue, fever, abdominal cramps, to joint or muscle pain.
2. Giardiasis
Giardiasis is a small intestinal infection caused by the microscopic parasite Giardia lamblia. This parasite is commonly found in human feces. They can survive outside the host's body for long periods of time.
Anal sex, both penis and unprotected penetration rimming (anus-to-mouth), is one way this infection can move from one person to another. Having oral sex after anal doesn't only risk you swallowing E. coli from your partner's anus, but also transferring bacteria to him when kissing afterwards so he is also at risk of experiencing the same thing. Symptoms of giardiasis include fatigue, nausea, diarrhea or oily dirt, loss of appetite, and vomiting that appears one or two weeks after exposure.
3. Tipes
Tipes, or typhoid fever in its medical language, is a disease caused by Salmonella typhii bacteria and can spread through the consumption of feces from people who have accidentally infected this bacterium. One of them is with rimming or having oral sex or kissing after anal sex with a person infected with typhoid.
Typhoid-causing bacteria can survive in the new host intestine for 1-3 weeks before finally showing symptoms. When typhoid symptoms begin to appear, you will experience high fever (± 40 ° C), headache, muscle aches and pains, loss of appetite, diarrhea or constipation, abdominal pain, until weak and lethargic.
4. Dysentery (shigellosis)
Dysentery is an intestinal disease caused by shigella, a highly contagious type of bacteria. The main symptoms of shigella infection are diarrhea that often bleeds. Shigella can be transmitted through direct contact with infected faeces or accidentally swallowing it when engaged in anal sex rimming. Men who have sex with fellow men have the highest risk of getting shigella infection, but every person who rimming can get it regardless of their sex or sexual orientation.
Other symptoms that may arise from shigella infection include vomiting, abdominal cramps, high fever (± 40 ° C), dehydration, rectal prolapse, and joint pain.
5. E. coli infection
E. coli (Escherichia coli) is the name of a germ that lives in the human digestive tract. Diarrhea caused by E. coli infection can also be one of the risks of anal sex, either through rimming or when switching from anus to mouth (rimming then oral sex, aka blowjob, or rimming then kissing). Having oral sex after anal doesn't only risk you swallowing E. coli from your partner's anus, but also transferring bacteria to him when kissing afterwards so he is also at risk of experiencing the same thing.
Common symptoms of E. coli infection include bloody diarrhea, abdominal cramps, nausea and vomiting. Some people can not show any symptoms. Some strains of E. coli bacteria can also cause severe anemia or kidney failure, which can cause death. Other strains of E. coli can cause urinary tract infections or other infections.
6. Amebiasis
Amebiasis is a disease caused by a single-celled parasite called Entamoeba histolytica. You can catch this disease through rimming when swallowing contaminated feces or passing it on to a partner when kissing after anal sex using mouth.
The symptoms are often quite mild, including runny diarrhea, abdominal pain, and stomach cramps. A more severe form of amebiasis sometimes causes bloody stools and fever. Men who have sex with men are at high risk for being infected with amebiasis, but often they are asymptomatic.
7. Worms
Worms are another disease that can arise as a risk of anal and oral disease (rimming). The types of worms commonly transmitted through the anal-to-mouth are roundworms, tapeworms, and pinworms. These three worms live in the intestine and incubate their eggs in feces. You can get worms when you accidentally swallow feces from your partner's anus.
Your sex partner can also be exposed to intestinal worms when kissing after rimming, or alternately rimming you. Worm spread can also occur after you and your partner have finished having anal sex but forget to wash their hands, then continue eating later.
Always use protectors when having sex to avoid transmission of the disease
What needs to be understood, various infectious diseases as the risk of anal sex above can still occur even if you and your partner have cleaned the anal canal well before going to bed. This is because the anus is one of the places in the human body that is naturally inhabited by many bacterial colonies. Therefore, even a clean buttocks can still carry germs that cause disease.
Sex risk anal can be prevented by using condoms and / or dental dams, special mouth protectors for sex. Male and female couples also need to use condoms during anal penetration and replace them with new ones before continuing vaginal penetration immediately afterwards. This is to avoid the transfer of bacteria from the anus to the vagina, which can cause urinary tract infections.
