very long…check it here https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/health/article/2001394053/what-having-more-than-10-sexual-partners-means
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A recent study, that has created a buzz in medical circles, suggests individuals who have had 10 or more lifetime sexual partners are at higher risk of developing some cancers or other life threatening disease compared to “zero or near zero grazers”
The study done involved 5,722 men and women aged over 50, and reported a link between more sexual partners and high risk of cancer.
In the study, women who had 10 or more sexual partners had a 91 per cent higher chance of a cancer diagnosis compared to 41 per cent among those who had one or no sexual partner. Interestingly, women with more sexual partners also developed chronic health conditions that affected their daily life.
Among the men, those with two to four partners had a 57 per cent higher chance of a cancer diagnosis compared to those with one or zero. This risk increased to 69 per cent when the partners increased to 10 or more.
Data collected nationally by the Ministry of Health and Kenya National Bureau of Statistics shows on average men are having about seven life time sexual partners compared to about two for women.(i doubt hapa kwa women,i read in another journal women are not that open when this surveys are done)
While men aged 15-24 have four lifetime sex partners on average, by the time some reach 39 they have had eight partners and about 10 by age 49.
By region, the survey showed Nairobi has the highest cases of multiple sexual partnerships, followed by Nyanza and Central.
Other data published in The Lancet, shows unsafe sex to bear the biggest risk in Lamu and Nakuru but with least risk in Garissa and Wajir counties.
Unsafe sex, the data shows, is the third greatest risk to health in Nairobi after child and maternal malnutrition, and high blood pressure.
Medical experts are also puzzled by a global increase of throat, mouth, tongue, neck and head cancers despite a major drop in tobacco use – the major risk factor,oral sex is thought to be the reason. Similarly, a report by the Kenya Medical Research Institute, early this year involving 348 female sex workers in Nairobi, detected HPV in more than a quarter of the women. Some of the women had reported up to 40 clients in a week which was associated with the high HPV prevalence in the group.
Majority of the women, 190 or about 55 per cent, were divorced, widowed or separated while about 44 per cent were single with three being married or in a union. Researchers have reported that nine per cent of female sex workers in Nairobi engage in oral sex.
Last year, the National Aids and STI Control Council reported to have reached some 6,672 gay men from Kisumu, Kiambu and Mombasa counties who are transacting online, but said many more are yet to be reached.
But while permissiveness is all the hype, a study in 34 African countries, including Kenya, shows men and women who walked into their marriages as virgins had fewer lifetime sexual partners and “may be a ticket to longer and healthier lives”.
It found 15 per cent of men and 36 per cent of women in the study involving 451,263 persons to have walked into their marriages as virgins.
“Our findings suggest that, postponing first sexual event until first marriage is associated with having a decreased number of lifetime sexual partners,” says the study by among others the African Population and Health Research Centre, Nairobi.