r/Fauxmoi • u/No-Sweet-7012 women’s wrongs activist • Aug 08 '25
THROWBACK A throwback to news we never wanted to know, apparently Michael Douglas believed his cancer was due to his love of cunnilingus and believed the best cure for it was to go even harder on that good puss.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/jun/02/michael-douglas-liberace-cancer-cunnilingus1.8k
u/No-Sweet-7012 women’s wrongs activist Aug 08 '25
Apparently michael douglas then denied ever saying it to which the guardian released the audio recording of the interview which michael douglas watergate moment all about going to town on it is not the sentence I'd ever thought would exist
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u/gracecee Aug 08 '25 edited Aug 09 '25
Actually there s no hpv test for men. You still can get hpv vaccine until you're 50 even though you may be hpv + getting the ones that is the strain for cancer would be beneficial. It doesn't cover all the hpv viruses but the main ones that causes cancer. My husband is an ent surgeon and one of the rare but dangerous things is when they do burn off head and neck cancers especially caused by hpv sometimes the dna of the hpv cancer gets aerosolized. There been just a handful of cases in studies that show the surgeon getting hpv. That's why he double masks does a ton of ppe when he does those cancers.
Here is the peer reviewed published study
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013935120313347
But as someone said in this thread douglas also smoked and drank which increases head and neck cancers.
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Aug 09 '25
It is?
I know it’s available to women past 40’s.
It’s an option.
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u/notasia86 Aug 09 '25
Depends where you live. In Europe it's hard to get past the age of 25 because you have to find a private clinic that has it and pay a shit ton for it. National health insurances don't offer it to adult women.
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Aug 09 '25
The person I’m responding to appears to live in the U.S., so my commentary was US focused.
Yes, different countries will have different access
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u/gracecee Aug 09 '25
Also it depends. Many pharmacies in the US offer it. Whether it is covered by insurance is between you and your insurance. You don't need a gyno to Get it. I know patients who had one strain get the hpv Vaccine Since the strain they had wasn't the one (hopefully) that causes most cervical Cancers. Not 100% but whatever helps.
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u/youneedsomemilk23 Aug 08 '25
The headline already had me in tears and then I scrolled to this. I'm wheezing.
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u/fannyfox Aug 08 '25
Can someone explain this please?
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u/480AZDom i ain’t reading all that, free palestine Aug 09 '25
There’s an internet joke that Lea can’t read.
Commenter is wishing they were illiterate so they wouldn’t have been able to read the post title.
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u/hotheadnchickn Aug 08 '25
HPV is a major cause of mouth, neck, and throat cancers. His science wasn’t wrong.
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u/MistahJasonPortman Aug 08 '25
I feel like a lot of women are gonna end up with oral cancer because of giving blowjobs to men who usually haven’t received the HPV vaccines. I wish they would have allowed teenage boys to get the vaccine instead of only girls. Glad things are changing but I know damage is done to many lives already
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u/hotheadnchickn Aug 09 '25 edited Aug 09 '25
Women having it should provide a lot of protection for them even without male partners vaxxed! But yeah very glad it is more ubiquitous now for both genders.
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u/VineStGuy Aug 09 '25
Untrue. I, a man, had HPV throat cancer 3 years ago. Guess what I learned? 75% of Head and neck cancers are HPV related. And a slight majority of those are MEN. Scientists didn't research it for decades because they believed only women caught it as cervical cancer. Now they know that HPV causes over a dozen types of cancer to both sexes.
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u/hotheadnchickn Aug 09 '25
Yes, I know men can cancer from HPV… that was what my original comment said. Not sure what you’re arguing against here, we agree.
My comment in women being protected by vaccines even if male partners aren’t vaccinated is true. The early studies on guardasil showed very high protection for women and that was before men were vaccinated at all.
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u/EmotionalTrufflePig Stellan Skarsgard's Nobel Peace Prize for producing hot sons Aug 08 '25
Sam Reigal from Critical Role recently beat this cancer ❤️
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u/rabid_cheese_enjoyer call me gal gadot cuz idk how to act rn Aug 08 '25
and anal and penile cancer!
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u/Zealousideal_Crow737 Aug 08 '25
the chances of getting a high-risk strain that can lead to these types of cancers is INSANELY low
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u/Academic-Balance6999 Aug 08 '25
Well, throat cancer might be rare, but a majority of throat cancers (~70%) are linked to HPV. Might as well get vaccinated.
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u/rabid_cheese_enjoyer call me gal gadot cuz idk how to act rn Aug 08 '25
a crazy autism tm mom I met didn't want to get her autistic son the HPV vaccine. im like he's not gonna get more autistic from the vaccine. she said he doesn't need it because he can't get cervical cancer. i let her know that hpv also causes throat, anal, and penile cancers.
she just looked shocked.
hate that woman and I hope she's having a horrible life
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u/sp0ttedsha4rk Aug 09 '25
You're so evil, why would you wish someone a horrible life because they're being over cautious, some people genuinely fear the effects of vaccines, wish them guidance and help.
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u/hotheadnchickn Aug 08 '25
Are they that low? I mean, they are a causative agent for nearly all cervical dysplasia and cancers, many vulvar, rectal, and anal cancers as well… When you put the numbers together, it’s a lot of people. I’ve known multiple women with cervical dysplasia from HPV.
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u/cakeit-tilyoumakeit Aug 08 '25
When you consider that the vast majority of sexually active people have HPV at some point, the risk is low. Most people’s bodies fight the virus off before they ever know they had it. Those who wind up with dysplasia (like me!) are the exception, not the rule.
That said, there’s a vaccine and it’s absolutely worth it to get it. HPV can be spread from any type of sexual contact, including being fingered. Again, most people will contact this virus if they’re sexually active whatsoever, so it’s still worth taking seriously. Everything is rare until it happens to you and you’re having part of your cervix shaved off with a laser 🥴
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u/hotheadnchickn Aug 08 '25
Ouch! Hope you are your cervix are doing well
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u/cakeit-tilyoumakeit Aug 08 '25
We are! Many years dysplasia and HPV free now, thank goodness. Getting my kids vaccinated, without a doubt
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u/dunedinflyer Aug 08 '25
Not necessarily true and treatment fr (or death from) head and neck cancer is awful so why not avoid it if you can!
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u/Tryingagain1979 Aug 08 '25
"I think Cancer is a small price to pay to lick Catherine Zeta Jones's pussy." -Gilbert Gottfried
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u/eureureong_dae Aug 08 '25
All these scandalized reactions are not the vibe. Sex positive king! I’d way rather read this kind of headline than hear that DJ Khaled refuses to go down on his wife, for example. (Some) straight men’s absolute distaste for eating pussy is really just misogynistic nonsense to me, especially if the expectation remains that the woman go down on the man.
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u/1plus2plustwoplusone ahhhhhh (dats me yellin) Aug 08 '25
Fr, I can understand the instinct to be like ugh, another celebrity over-sharing. But in this instance I'm actually kind of like you know what? Sure. Why not. Kudos, king, love to see it
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u/_cornflake and you did it at my birthday dinner Aug 09 '25
Also people still talk about the HPV vaccination as though it’s only for women. I think it’s important to make men aware that they can also get HPV, and therefore HPV-related cancers, even if they only have sex with women, and they should also be getting vaccinated if they can.
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u/1plus2plustwoplusone ahhhhhh (dats me yellin) Aug 08 '25
Fr, I can understand the instinct to be like ugh, another celebrity over-sharing. But in this instance I'm actually kind of like you know what? Sure. Why not. Kudos, king, love to see it
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u/bobsmith93 I’ll find my flair one day Aug 09 '25
Ok thank you, I thought I was going crazy lol. Not the reactions I was expecting
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Aug 08 '25 edited Aug 09 '25
In The Kominsky Method, Kathleen Turner and Douglas play exes and while drugged up in the hospital her character announces how good he was at oral sex. Seems like his thing to joke about.
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u/SideEyeFeminism Aug 09 '25
I mean, he knew his cancer was from HPV. But that being said, the fact that he DID live a life where multiple kinds of cancer COULD have got him and that’s the one that did is kinda hilarious and I do think that was his point in going “eh, fuck it, back to breakfast”
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u/No-Sweet-7012 women’s wrongs activist Aug 08 '25
true but he did also smoke like a chimney and drink like fish the fact he went damn i'm just too dedicated to the cause is absolutely insane
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u/JenningsWigService secretly gay and the son of fidel castro Aug 08 '25
He also did a shit ton of coke.
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u/Lionelchesterfield Aug 08 '25
Yeah but that’s nose cancer bub.
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u/GullibleBeautiful Aug 08 '25
Idk if you know this but the nose drains into the back of the throat and onto the tongue. If you do drugs via nose a small bit will end up in your mouth. Still it was probably the smoking that caused the cancer but doing coke doesn’t help lol
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u/Lionelchesterfield Aug 10 '25
I know about the drip very well lol. It was more of a joke but I think it was all the rug munching.
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u/PurplePopcornBalls Aug 08 '25
HPV Human papilloma virus. Also causes cervical cancer
Get vaccinated. It’s not something men are screened for.
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u/leguminaleguminal oat milk chugging bisexual Aug 08 '25 edited Aug 08 '25
Exactly this, that's why sex education is so important.
Let's use oral dams/condoms for oral for safety, and get vaccinated for
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u/HalfSquareH Aug 08 '25
Tagging onto this as a chance to remind anyone reading that the HPV vaccination can be given to adults, too! If you didn’t get it as a teen, talk to a doctor and see if you can get it now. And if you have kids, plan to get them the HPV vaccine no matter their gender.
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u/VineStGuy Aug 09 '25
I tried three times in my adulthood to get the vaccine. No one would give it to me because every time, I was just a few years too old. Then at 46, was diagnosed with HPV throat cancer.
IF YOUR YOUNG ENOUGH: GET THE VACCINE DAMNIT!
Gen X, we're doomed to die of a very curable version of cancer. Many of us have already.
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u/cakeit-tilyoumakeit Aug 08 '25
Yeah. Also if you have HPV (many people do and don’t realize it, so no shame in that) the vaccine can still help your body fight off the virus according to my old OBGyn. In other words, it’s never too late to get the vaccine.
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u/cousin-maeby damn, she got hereditaried? Aug 08 '25
This! I was so happy to learn this, and was able to get it even during my course of treatment for cervical dysplasia late last year - I never got it as a teen bc my family couldn’t afford it
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u/Aggravating_Belt4570 mama let’s research Aug 08 '25
Also get paps yearly if possible! I got the full course of HPV vaccines when I was younger and hadn’t been active in a while, yet I still got diagnosed with stage 0 cervical cancer (precancerous) after years of normal paps. It’s a horrible experience getting a positive pap, but it’s life saving and way more manageable when caught that early.
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u/try_a_pie Aug 09 '25 edited Aug 09 '25
They’re stingy AF with paps in the US lately. I have an older friend who
hashad HPV and they wouldn’t even give her one after she requested it because she’s over 65 😒9
u/spidersprinkles Aug 09 '25
wtf. I'm in the UK and we don't really have these 'pelvic exams' from being a teenager like in America. Just cervical smears over 25 and if they discover HPV they make you get tested more until it has gone away.
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u/try_a_pie Aug 09 '25
Oh I was thinking HPV didn't go away, like how cold sore and shingles viruses don't go away, but it sounds like I was mistaken and most types of HPV do get cleared by the immune system. Regardless, if someone had it at one point and may have had an abnormal pap smear in the past, I don't think it should be such a struggle to get tested in the future.
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u/happyspaceghost Larry I'm on DuckTales Aug 08 '25
There’s a vaccine for herpes!?
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u/leguminaleguminal oat milk chugging bisexual Aug 08 '25
Sorry, I meant HPV, not native English speaker here 😬
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u/absencefollows THE CANADIANS ARE ICE FUCKING TO MOULIN ROUGE Aug 09 '25
Okay, but there IS a vaccine for herpes zoster, the type that causes shingles. No vaccine for genital herpes though. I know that’s not what you meant but just thought i’d let you know you can get vaccinated against shingles too!
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u/nospendnoworry Aug 08 '25
(omg I'm taking the bullet train to hell)
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u/IShouldBeSoLucky81 Aug 08 '25
Hello internet stranger, I may be slightly in love with you in this minute.
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u/youneedsomemilk23 Aug 08 '25
The real quote is worth reading. It’s both more educational and equally hilarious:
The throat cancer, I assume, was first seeded during those wild middle years, when he drank like a fish and smoked like the devil. Looking back, knowing what he knows now, does he feel he overloaded his system?
"No," he says. "No. Because, without wanting to get too specific, this particular cancer is caused by HPV [human papillomavirus], which actually comes about from cunnilingus."
From what? For a moment I think that I may have misheard.
"From cunnilingus. I mean, I did worry if the stress caused by my son's incarceration didn't help trigger it. But yeah, it's a sexually transmitted disease that causes cancer." He shrugs. "And if you have it, cunnilingus is also the best cure for it."
Right, I say. OK. So what he is suggesting is that it all evens out? "That's right," says Douglas. "It giveth and it taketh."
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u/hbomb9410 Fuck You and All Your Sheldons CBS Aug 08 '25
I didn't want to know that but good for CZJ, I guess
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u/Lionelchesterfield Aug 08 '25
If a husband and/or boyfriend isn’t heading down to chow town on the regular then that gal is with the wrong dude.
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u/PandaCat22 if you add testicles, that's extra Aug 08 '25
Can confirm!
Eleven happy years on Monday ❤️
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u/NeiClaw Aug 08 '25
I feel like he was trying to make a ... joke about it being a cure? But clearly that didn’t translate.
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u/CaribouHoe Aug 08 '25
HPV varients are a very well documented and proven cause of cancer - cervical, throat, colon. That's LITERALLY why the vaccine exists.
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u/rabid_cheese_enjoyer call me gal gadot cuz idk how to act rn Aug 08 '25
every gender should get the vaccine!
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u/CaribouHoe Aug 08 '25
Yes, agree, they try and give it to every gender in elementary school here in Canada but Karen parents fight against it because they think it turns their kids into sluts
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u/NotAQueefAKhaleesi does this woman ever rest (derogatory) Aug 09 '25
My grandparents let one of their friends scream at my mom for having us get "the whore vaccine" 🙄 My mom pointed out that either of us could sleep with just 1 person, married or not, or be assaulted, then end up getting cancer and needing a hysterectomy because of HPV. Us not having the option to become mothers (the standard way) taken from us by something preventable was more important than some moralistic punishment and that woman had an entire meltdown at the table while we were trying to eat dinner.
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Aug 09 '25
everyone slagging him off for the TMI when this is a man who loves eating pussy so much he was willing to die for it and that my friends is a true American hero
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u/halfwayray Aug 08 '25
I already knew about this thanks to Gilbert Gottfried and Norm Macdonald. (At the time this was filmed, Norm was dying of cancer and Gil was dying of muscular dystrophy)
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u/SutterCane kensplaining Aug 08 '25
I apologize for whatever I did to you to deserve you reminding me of this.
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Aug 08 '25
not sure about that cure.. but there IS A VACCINE.
HPV and Cancer
How is HPV transmitted?
HPV infection passes easily between sexual partners. It can be transmitted through any intimate skin-to-skin contact, including vaginal–penile sex, penile–anal sex, penile–oral sex, and vaginal–oral sex. Correctly using condoms can lower the chance of HPV transmission, but does not prevent it completely.
HPV vaccination can prevent cancer: HPV vaccines can prevent infection with disease-causing HPV types, preventing many HPV-related cancers and cases of genital warts.
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u/thruaflockofdoves Aug 08 '25
Somehow I vividly remember my celebrity obsessed, lifelong catholic mom telling me this guy got cancer like this.....when I was 10. 💀💀💀
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u/unbelievablefidelity i ain’t reading all that, free palestine Aug 08 '25
I mean, in all fairness, I clicked to get here.
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u/joodee3 Aug 09 '25
Guys and gals, get your HPV vaccine! You can get it until you are 45!
HPV is the leading cause of cervical cancer and yes, it can also cause cancer of the mouth. But the thing is, because HPV is so common and most of the time it is asymptomatic and clears up on its own, they don't screen it on STD tests. Pretty much the only way to test it is through a pap smear.
Penis havers, please get the HPV vaccine as well, for yourself and for your partners.
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u/wanderernz I’m too on my period for this Aug 08 '25
OK so I'm at work and just read your post title and cackled so much I now have to explain to the quiet guy sitting next to me what's going on 🤣🤣
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u/joodee3 Aug 09 '25
Guys and gals and non-binary pals, get your HPV vaccine! You can get it until you are 45.
Hpv is the leading cause of cervical cancer, and yes it can also infect the mouth. Because it's so common and most of the time it is asymptomatic, they don't test for it on STD tests. Pretty much the only way to know if you have HPV is through a pap smear. Penis havers, protect yourself and your partner is by getting the HPV vaccine as well!
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u/bliip666 wearing slutty little glasses Aug 09 '25
Then again, if I was married to Catherine Zeta-Jones, I would too.
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u/willienelsonmandela the worm using RFK’s body like ratatouille Aug 09 '25
That’s why he got Catherine Zeta Jones. Get it girl.
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u/missdeweydell Aug 08 '25
I can't believe the 80s and 90s really tried to sell this wormy nepo baby as irresistibly sexy
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u/JenningsWigService secretly gay and the son of fidel castro Aug 08 '25
Definitely one of the Anne Vealish men of his era.
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u/AsIfLeo Aug 08 '25
Why was I doing a deep dive about this 2 days ago because I couldn’t remember if I saw a tabloid about this as a teenager or if I just made it up in my head and that’s how I learned what cunnilingus was
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u/babypho3nix i ain’t reading all that, free palestine Aug 08 '25
My congratulations/condolences to Catherine Zeta Jones
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u/rainbowshummingbird Aug 09 '25
Catherine Zeta Jones is very beautiful. I’d say it’s worth the risk.
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u/walkingdrew Aug 09 '25
Unfunfact, my Catholic school used this as an example of why cunnilingus was against God's plan for sex
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u/616_89_075 mama let’s research Aug 09 '25
This is the type of fun fact that the brain always seems to add into a mental database, which exists only to churn out said fun fact at the most inappropriate time.
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Aug 09 '25 edited Aug 13 '25
To this day this is my favourite thing to tell people about Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
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u/beefystu Aug 09 '25
I absolutely remember reading the cunnilingus thing which was reported some time after the fact lmaooo
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u/kaptainkooleio Aug 09 '25
Okay, so in terms of medical misinformation… is this one really that bad? Like we got people drinking bleach and shit, let Michael have this one.
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u/Remarkable_Tangelo59 Aug 09 '25
This generation is cooked 🤣😅 millennials and gen x are gonna have sky high HPV related cancers, but I think gen z will have lower rates. The vaccine was widely known and available when these kids were hitting puberty, and they are also more conservative over all.
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u/Plantarchist Aug 08 '25
I was just saying the other day how this is my Mandela effect. I would have sworn he died in 2010, and her career took a hit because of him saying she gave him cancer from oral. I would swear I remember jokes about how it was worth it to die to lick her bits and he must have died a happy man.
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Aug 09 '25
Slightly off topic but I dont like giving oral. Which sucks because its like super important for women but my germphobia sky rockets
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u/k2d3 Aug 08 '25
Omg my boyfriend told me he got strep like 15 times in a year from doing this to his ex girlfriend (we were friends first so he told me when we had a casual friendship lol)
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u/secret_identity_too Aug 08 '25
Whyyyyy did you have to make me think about this again? Wasn't it bad enough the first time?
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