I know that you can develop cervical cancer if you don't use a condom becuase you can get the HPV viruses. But I wondering if you can just get cancer by having sex a lot without using a condom? i know my partner is clean, he was a virgin, i was a virgin... so i don't think any viruses are the problem?
2007-01-10 09:19:50 · 9 answers · asked by Alex S 1 in Health ➔ Women's Health
The risk of cervical cancer without a condom only increases if you have multiple partners or your partner has mutliple partners. They call this promiscuity. If you have 1 partner, and he has 1 partner, I would not be worried. I am a cancer RN and asked a physician what causes cervical cancer and he told me the number 1 increased risk for cervical cancer is promiscuity. If you have many sex partners, you will be at higher risk.
We lost a 30 yr old to cervical cancer. She had multiple partners and was a mother to a 2 yr old and a 10 yr old.
2007-01-10 09:24:34 · answer #1 · answered by happydawg 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
HPV is actually a sexually transmitted virus and you are right about unprotected sex and the HPV which is a pre-curser to cervical cancer. Your risk of getting HPV is low/next to nothing if you are in a monogomous relationship however HPV isn't the only thing that makes you vulnerable to cervical cancer so you still need pap smears at your doctor's discretion, be it annually or otherwise.
2007-01-10 09:26:22 · answer #2 · answered by Cash 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Before HPV was discovered, they used to believe that sex caused cervical cancer because it was almost never found in virgins. However, HPV is so common that most people who have it don't even know that they do. Use condoms unless both of you have had STD tests that came back negative.
2007-01-10 09:24:33 · answer #3 · answered by mkbrocato 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've read that women who have had a lot of sexual partners are at higher risk. (Not women who have a lot of sex with one partner in a monogamous relationship.) This probably has to do with hpv, but I read this before there was a lot of information out there about the connection between it and cervical cancer.
2007-01-10 09:37:25 · answer #4 · answered by Jess 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. If that were the case than most of the world would have it. Just watch out for other diseses that u can catch 4rum not using protection. Good Luck
2007-01-10 09:23:19 · answer #5 · answered by 1hotmama 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, it's having several partners that can cause harm, but not cancer
2007-01-10 09:23:17 · answer #6 · answered by xquis81 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the physical act of intercourse cannot cause cancer.
2007-01-10 09:23:20 · answer #7 · answered by essentiallysolo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, sex takes place in the vagina, not the cervix.
2007-01-10 09:23:36 · answer #8 · answered by Bud's Girl 6 · 0⤊ 4⤋
no....wahts cervical cancer?
2007-01-10 09:22:32 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋