John [Potterat] has been called "one of the country's leading epidemiologists"; he was Director of STD/AIDS Programs in Colorado Springs, CO, for almost thirty years, and has authored, as of this writing, 177 scholarly publications about STDs and HIV/AIDS. Before his kids became sexually active, he told them: The anus is an exit, not an entrance. This is not in the Bible, he said; this is science. The anal lining is only one cell thick, there are M cells everywhere, there is no lubrication, so tissue micro tears are common, and access to the blood stream is easy. Unlike the vagina, nature put a tight sphincter at the entrance of the anus. It's there for a reason: Keep out!
Miriam Grossman, M.D., "You're Teaching My Child What?" p. 100 (copyright 2009).
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