This is follow-on to a thread last week on the economics of the business, but I'm going off on a new tangent here.
At one point, wrps07 asked jenniferjonesdc if she would charge the same rate if she did not offer BBBJ, and she implied she would probably lower her rate in that case given what the competition offers.
I have to admit that the emphasis on BBBJs in the business gives me pause. Why do hobbyists, who are generally risk-averse, insist on BBBJs, and why do providers comply, given that the numbers seem not to be on their side? Am I alarmist, or are the risks not generally well known?
K.
For those who want the background on this:
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I guess it was all sparked by an item in the New Yorker last fall:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/10/01/121001fa_fact_groopman about the rise of drug-resistant gonorrhea, and that unprotected oral sex is a major transmission vector.
I thought I should educate myself a bit more this evening, and there's some good background material on oral gonorrhea at Jezebel.com:
http://jezebel.com/5946480/rethinking-the-blow-job-condoms-or-gonorrhea-take-your-pick which helpfully includes tips on how to make CBJs more stimulating.
Also, Planned Parenthood has some info, although it might be on the alarmist side:
http://blog.advocatesaz.org/2012/09/28/std-awareness-gonorrhea-of-the-throat/ On the hard numbers, here's some research articles courtesy of PubMed:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22875839: 17 of 372 sex workers in Sydney who practiced 'inconsistent' use of condoms during oral sex had oral gonorrhea (4.5%).
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23191956: 22% of Adult Film Industry performers had asymptomatic oral gonorrhe
