Is oral sex more common now? By BBC World online

Is oral sex more common now? By BBC World online
It's hard to say if more people around the world are having more oral sex than they used to, as there isn't much reliable global data available.
Data from the UK and US show it's very common and has been for years, including among teenagers.
The UK's first National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles carried out in 1990-1991, found 69.7% of men and 65.6% of women had given oral sex to or received it from, a partner of the opposite sex in the previous year.
By the time of the second survey during 1999-2001, this had increased to 77.9% for men and 76.8% for women but hasn't changed much since.
A national survey in the US, meanwhile, has found about two-thirds of 15-24-year-olds have ever had oral sex.
Dr Mark Lawton from the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV said people with gonorrhoea in the throat would be unlikely to realise it and thus be more likely to pass it on via oral sex.
He recognises that while condoms would reduce the risk of transmission, many people wouldn't want to use them.

"My message would be to get tested so at least if you've got it you know about it," Dr Lawton said.

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