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Serious question: Could it be HPV transmission through anal sex?
We'd have to wait and see as things develop further, but I'm going to go ahead and say colon cancer rates rising alongside more and more food being processed is uh... far more likely.
That's an awful lot of anal sex.
If they were doing it that much, I doubt they felt it was all that bad.
You'd expect it to go down, if that were the case. Way more people under 35 have gotten an HPV vaccine compared with older people.
This article just came up regarding cervical cancer and HPV. Same age group as this anal cancer discussion. Cases plumet for young women because of the HPV vaccine but not 30's and 40's because the vaccines were approved in 2006.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/womens-health/hpv-vaccine-cervical-cancer-rising-women-research-rcna134224
Welcome to Lemmy, where a genuine, honest question gets down votes.
What the hell is wrong with people here?
Because it’s a bad question?
It's not though, it's a reasonable question.
It’s a stupid question.
There are so many potential causes they could’ve asked about. Instead they went straight to sodomy? Hmmm, I wonder why.
Because I am a bisexual man.
Their motivation could be devil's advocate, sounding alarm bells about how information could be twisted to fit a narrative.
You don't know that. You're assuming this person is asking from a place of bigotry.