Oral sex and recurrent vulvo-vaginal candidiasis.

Oral sex and transmission of non-viral STIs

“…However, Evans et al 5 reported on a series of 1025 new attenders at a genitourinary medicine clinic, and found no association between oral sex and candidiasis. In contrast, two studies of recurrent vaginal candidiasis have shown a significant association with the practice of cunnilingus (p<0.001), 6 frequency of oral intercourse (p=0.02), and oral intercourse within the past month (OR =3.1). 7 If oral sex predisposes to recurrent vaginal candidiasis but not to vaginal candidiasis in general this suggests that the mechanism for predisposition might not be oro-genital transmission of the organism.…”

Loitering in Leeds

“…The mean age of the women was 19 (range 12-22) years. The mean age at the debut of sexual intercourse was 16 years (range [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20].…”

“…[14][15][16][17] One reason for such a correlation might be contact transmission. 18 One third of the adult population is said to harbour oral Candida albicans.…”

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“…However, in a more recent study, Muznyl et al [68] did not find evidence supporting sexual transmission of genital Candida between women (WSW) [68]. The few studies that have focused on specific sexual practices among women with RVVC have found positive association with early sexual debut, [69], casual sex partners in the preceding month [69], new sex partner in the last six months [70], sex during menses [69], receptive oral and anal intercourse [61,71,72] and frequency of vaginal intercourse [5]. Reed et al [65] in their study on sexual behavior as a risk factor for RVVC found that female masturbation using saliva and cunnilingus from their partners and male masturbation with saliva increased the risk of genital candidiasis [65].…”