Stupid Headline Award (Oral Sex Category)

The "award" for worst headline of the week goes to The Register in the U.K. for its recent article titled "Oral sex could be more dangerous than cigars." This craven attempt to titillate readers deliberately mis-characterized the results of a recent study about oral cancer in the New England Journal of Medicine.Making matters worse, Lewis Page, the author of the Register piece, goes on to say

Sex Sells--Just Don't Talk About It

We have no trouble watching glamorous women suggestively stroking gleaming automobiles in television ads. So explain to me why doing something about a sexually transmitted disease that causes cancer is so controversial.A new vaccine against the most dangerous strains of the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV)--which is the ultimate cause of nearly all cases of cervical cancer--is now available and some