Straight women are leaning in to anal sex–or should we say bending over? The most recent statistics provided by the Centers for Disease Control and the National Center for Health Statistics showed that more than a third—35%—of women aged 15 to 49 have tried anal sex with a male partner. A similar survey of 880 “sexually active adults” showed that 70% of women have tried anal sex at least once.
In the spirit of a new age of sexual exploration and health awareness, doctors published an editorial urging more clinicians to talk to women about engaging in anal sex. “Clinicians may shy away from these discussions, influenced by society’s taboos,” wrote the doctors with the UK’s National Health System, adding “By avoiding these discussions, we may be failing a generation of young women, who are unaware of the risks.” Physicians and healthcare workers, especially those in primary care and family medicine, “have a duty to acknowledge changes in society around anal sex in young women, and to meet these changes with open neutral and non-judgemental conversations to ensure that all women have the information they need to make informed choices about sex,” they wrote.
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Check out more about doctors calling for more health care workers to talk to women about anal sex: https://nypost.com/2022/08/12/why-anal-sex-taboos-put-generation-of-women-at-risk-doctors/
