Sexual Disease Risk Higher for Swingers than Prostitutes: Dutch Study
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(CBS) The risk of catching a sexually transmitted disease (STD) may be high among prostitutes - but a new study from the British Medical Journal says the risk is even higher among couples who like to trade partners and engage in group sex.
Dutch researchers analyzed almost 9,000 patients at three sexual health clinics and found that 10.4 percent of older couples who considered themselves "swingers" were infected with chlymadia or gonorrhea, Reuters reported.
In comparison, just under 5 percent of female prostitutes were infected with chlamydia or gonorrhea.
Female swingers had higher rates than their male counterparts, and swingers over 45 were more likely to have an STD than those under 45.
Older swingers are "very hard to reach," one of the study's authors, Anne-Marie Niekamp, told Reuters. "Because they are so hidden and in some ways also stigmatized, it is hard for them to come forward for STI testing and treatment."
The findings are not necessarily transferable to America, where prostitution is not regulated and most prostitutes do not receive health care.
June 24, 2010
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-2…
Dutch researchers analyzed almost 9,000 patients at three sexual health clinics and found that 10.4 percent of older couples who considered themselves "swingers" were infected with chlymadia or gonorrhea, Reuters reported.
In comparison, just under 5 percent of female prostitutes were infected with chlamydia or gonorrhea.
Female swingers had higher rates than their male counterparts, and swingers over 45 were more likely to have an STD than those under 45.
Older swingers are "very hard to reach," one of the study's authors, Anne-Marie Niekamp, told Reuters. "Because they are so hidden and in some ways also stigmatized, it is hard for them to come forward for STI testing and treatment."
The findings are not necessarily transferable to America, where prostitution is not regulated and most prostitutes do not receive health care.
June 24, 2010
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-2…
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in other words i'm sure it would be easy to conduct a study that shows that stds are higher among prostitutes than among swingers.
There's a telling scene from one of my favorite flicks "Memory of a Killer" ( a true story), which was based in Belgium. Early on, husband tells wife that he might have to stay overnight in an adjacent city. Wife tells husband, "Do me a favor. Buy her a better perfume." When the husband is killed, the Police Commissioner is trying to get in the widow's pants. Later, when a mafia liason is killed, his widow immediately starts hitting on the detective.
My guess would be that HSV and HPV which condoms don't protect very well against would be higher among prostitutes than the general population (for similar age profiles), but the rest would be no different.
It's also a standard fact that women are more prone to STDs than men, and the older you are the more likely it is you picked up one of the viral STDs at some point.