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by zahlman
465 days ago
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>16% of survey respondents said they have never had an STI, which is frankly impossible. Even people who are being honest might not count e.g. oral herpes as an STI if they contracted it in a non-sexual way. >Every user apparently answered "age of first sexual intercourse" with a number? ... As opposed to what? |
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That's pretty much my point, self-reporting with vague questions leads to bad data. HSV-1 can be transmitted orally to genitally however, and genital HSV-1 is now more common in many places than genital HSV-1 [1] (likely from oral-to-genital transmission since HSV-1 is less active genitally, and barriers are far less commonly used orally than with PiV intercourse)
From [1]: "In studies conducted in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, cultures performed on samples taken from lesions of genital herpes indicated that more than 50% of infections were due to HSV-1"
> .. As opposed to what?
As opposed to... not having had sexual intercourse?
[1]: https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/infectious-d...