Respect your wife, avoid anal sex
THE recently concluded international microbicide conference in the US, left experts a task of finding an effective way to protect everyone from HIV using microbicides.
By vision reporter
THE recently concluded international microbicide conference in the US, left experts a task of finding an effective way to protect everyone from HIV using microbicides.
The conference brought together about 1,000 researchers, scientists, advocates and community leaders. One new phenomenon researchers discovered was that the incidence of anal sex was rising among married heterosexual couples.
Several researches found incidences of rectal sexual acts between men and women both in and outside marriage. Apart from men who have sex with men, there was a widespread occurrence of anal sex between husbands and wives and with female prostitutes. Studies in Kenya, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, South Africa, Peru, India and Boston US, revealed that men practice anal sex with women as well as men.
In Nigeria, it was reported that some men claim the vagina becomes too wet and loose and so demand for sex in the rectum. Other acts are a function of innovative romance, where research revealed that some wives also like it if it will please their husbands. In other incidents, couples who want to avoid pregnancy, decide to ejaculate into the anus after sex in the vagina.
Prof. Slim Abdool Karim found that most female sex workers at truck stops in KwaZulu, Natal have ever had anal sex. “The number of women, who said they had had anal sex, has increased from 42.8% in 1996 to 61.3% in 2009.
Dr. N. Velduijzen of the International Centre for Reproductive Health, who presented studies of sex workers in Mombasa, Kenya and Kigali in Rwanda, found 4.3% anal sex acts in the 820 sex workers of Mombasa and 5.5% among 800 sex workers of Kigali. .
“Anal sex is 20 times more risky in HIV transmission,†Velduijven said.†Applying microbicide vaginally may not help if the client prefers anal sex. The researcher advised a highly active microbicide, which when applied to the vagina, can spread its effect to the rectum.
The health risks of anal sex
According to medical experts, anal sex is the riskiest of all forms of sexual intercourse with the following health risks:
Pain or discomfort.
Tears in the lining of the anus can be painful and they heal slowly because they’re irritated repeatedly during bowel movements.
Tearing and bleeding of the soft anal tissues
Damage to the sphincter muscles, which close up the rectum, leading to incontinence and anal prolapse.
High risk of infection because the anus has a high concentration of disease causing micro-organisms not found elsewhere on the body. Among the diseases associated with anal sex are HIV, cancer, typhoid fever, amoebiasis; chlamydia; cryptosporidiosis; E. coli infections; giardiasis; gonorrhoea; hepatitis A; hepatitis B; hepatitis C and herpes simplex. Others are human papillomavirus; Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus, lymphogranuloma venereum; Mycoplasma hominis; Mycoplasma genitalium; pubic lice; salmonellosis; shigella; syphilis; tuberculosis; and Ureaplasma urealyticum.
High rates of condom failure due to the dryness.
The risk for HIV transmission is 20 times higher than for vaginal sex.
Frequent anal sex is associated with haemorrhoids, anal prolapse, leakage, ulcers and fissures.
Loss of control over the bowels.
THE recently concluded international microbicide conference in the US, left experts a task of finding an effective way to protect everyone from HIV using microbicides.
The conference brought together about 1,000 researchers, scientists, advocates and community leaders. One new phenomenon researchers discovered was that the incidence of anal sex was rising among married heterosexual couples.
Several researches found incidences of rectal sexual acts between men and women both in and outside marriage. Apart from men who have sex with men, there was a widespread occurrence of anal sex between husbands and wives and with female prostitutes. Studies in Kenya, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, South Africa, Peru, India and Boston US, revealed that men practice anal sex with women as well as men.
In Nigeria, it was reported that some men claim the vagina becomes too wet and loose and so demand for sex in the rectum. Other acts are a function of innovative romance, where research revealed that some wives also like it if it will please their husbands. In other incidents, couples who want to avoid pregnancy, decide to ejaculate into the anus after sex in the vagina.
Prof. Slim Abdool Karim found that most female sex workers at truck stops in KwaZulu, Natal have ever had anal sex. “The number of women, who said they had had anal sex, has increased from 42.8% in 1996 to 61.3% in 2009.
Dr. N. Velduijzen of the International Centre for Reproductive Health, who presented studies of sex workers in Mombasa, Kenya and Kigali in Rwanda, found 4.3% anal sex acts in the 820 sex workers of Mombasa and 5.5% among 800 sex workers of Kigali. .
“Anal sex is 20 times more risky in HIV transmission,†Velduijven said.†Applying microbicide vaginally may not help if the client prefers anal sex. The researcher advised a highly active microbicide, which when applied to the vagina, can spread its effect to the rectum.
The health risks of anal sex
According to medical experts, anal sex is the riskiest of all forms of sexual intercourse with the following health risks:
Pain or discomfort.
Tears in the lining of the anus can be painful and they heal slowly because they’re irritated repeatedly during bowel movements.
Tearing and bleeding of the soft anal tissues
Damage to the sphincter muscles, which close up the rectum, leading to incontinence and anal prolapse.
High risk of infection because the anus has a high concentration of disease causing micro-organisms not found elsewhere on the body. Among the diseases associated with anal sex are HIV, cancer, typhoid fever, amoebiasis; chlamydia; cryptosporidiosis; E. coli infections; giardiasis; gonorrhoea; hepatitis A; hepatitis B; hepatitis C and herpes simplex. Others are human papillomavirus; Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus, lymphogranuloma venereum; Mycoplasma hominis; Mycoplasma genitalium; pubic lice; salmonellosis; shigella; syphilis; tuberculosis; and Ureaplasma urealyticum.
High rates of condom failure due to the dryness.
The risk for HIV transmission is 20 times higher than for vaginal sex.
Frequent anal sex is associated with haemorrhoids, anal prolapse, leakage, ulcers and fissures.
Loss of control over the bowels.