But note that asking a group of mongers who engage in non-monogamous sexual activity if they will publicly acknowledge having received an STD is likely unproductive.

To be fair, you'd also need to request the number of people who've received BBBJ and do not have an STD.  (I'm a data point)

Further skewing the results is the number who can say, with clinical precision, that the source of the STD was solely a BBBJ activity and did not involve incidental or transference contact.

Read through the discussion below and do the research; knowledge is power

Nope. Never caught an STD from a BBBJ. Heck never caught an STD at all. I'm pretty lucky and careful about which girls I play with.

There are few things worse than lying my head down after some fine work, only to face a barrage of questions such as "Have you ever shared needles for IV drugs?" and "How do you know you don't have chlamydia of the throat?"  

The risks are very small.  If a (quality, reputable) provider had an inkling of an indication there was a problem, she/I wouldn't work.  On the other hand, if you are young (always the case), and your school had aggressive abstinence-only, fear-mongering sex ed, just use a condom already.

PLEASE be as careful as your comfort level allows, it's no good for anybody to step over your line.

You think you're at high risk with your fluids in her mouth? Don't kiss her either, if you think her saliva will give you an STD. Do you use a condom for all mouth to mouth contact? Doesn't seem like much fun to me.

There's some risk involved in all our intimate exchanges. We choose to protect ourselves from the ones we can't live with.
A lot of providers in the UK where I've just been, offer bareback sex now. Personally I think this is insanity but saying that I do choose to offer bbbj at my discretion. I've never had any issues and I get a throat swab along with other sexual health testing.
I do accept there's a risk though. I guess you just do what you're comfortable with and use a well know and reputable provider

IMO there is the same, if not more risk engaging in oral with that hot chic at the end of the bar.

In other words, who really knows what the risk is when you are dating, unless you are going to insist she get tested before she kisses the one eyed wonder worm.

IMO oral sex is safer with a reputable provider because their lively hood depends on it