http://www.newsweek.com/oral-sex-hpv-infections-increasing-throat-cancer-1797374 > Cases of throat cancer have been skyrocketing in recent years, mainly due to increased levels of HPV (human papillomavirus) infections, caused by oral sex. > Oropharyngeal cancer is mainly caused by HPV infections, and is now more common than cervical cancer—also caused by HPV—in both the U.S. and U.K., according to an article in the Conversation by Hisham Mehanna, a professor of cancer and genomic sciences at the University of Birmingham in the U.K.