The hidden dangers of oral sex with a smoker: Dr Microbiome’s warning

On Thursday, June 6, a video was posted on Dr Microbiome's profile. In it, the expert explains how dangerous it is to engage in oral sex with a smoker, detailing the potential consequences.

Sex is a completely natural and beautiful act. Love can be practiced in many different ways. The most important thing is to find a way that brings the most pleasure to the partners and gives them a sense of satisfaction. It is also essential to always do everything to protect oneself and care for the health of both ourselves and our partners. It turns out that even our oral hygiene can affect whether we are at risk of any disease.

Oskar Kaczmarek, known online as "Dr Microbiome," is the medical director of one of the Polish medical centres and active on social media. He has over 300,000 followers on Instagram and over 20,000 fans on TikTok. He focuses on the microbiome and explains how to take care of our health and avoid diseases in unexpected situations.

Oral sex, also known as French love, is a prevalent form of sexual activity. As we read on the doz.pl portal, it involves stimulating the partner's intimate areas with the tongue and mouth. It can be a prelude to vaginal penetration or completely replace it. For everyone engaging in oral sex with a smoker, we have bad news: it’s a dangerous idea.

- Oral intercourse when our partner smokes cigarettes can be hazardous for women's intimate areas. Why? Because in the oral cavity of chronic smokers, in the gum pockets, my favourite periopathogens multiply rapidly. In contact with the microenvironment of the woman's intimate areas, they disrupt its protective functions, leading to significant health risks when paired with poor oral hygiene - said expert Oskar Kaczmarek on TikTok.

- Whether it will manifest as intimate discomfort after intercourse depends significantly on individual factors. However, remember that we don’t need to struggle with symptomatic gynecological infections to be almost defenceless against sexually transmitted diseases in such conditions, including chlamydia or trichomoniasis, which, in many cases, occur, beware, asymptomatically - continued Doctor Microbiome.

Oskar Kaczmarek mentioned that if the partner does not intend to quit smoking and also has oral health issues, one should decide to avoid oral sex. He also emphasized that cigarettes significantly affect the quality of sperm in men. In summary, smoking cigarettes is not worth it at all.