The Upside of Michael Douglas and the Cunnilingus Confession

Everybody has something to say about Michael Douglas’s celebrity-sex-health disclosure on Sunday, from yuck to yahoo, and I presume he wanted it that way. It’s hard to imagine the actor didn’t know that telling The Guardian’s Xan Brooks his throat cancer was caused by HPV wouldn’t become the biggest part of that interview. Once you drop the term cunnilingus, there’s no going back. In the interview, Brooks asked Douglas about his disease and whether the actor attributed it to his drinking and smoking. Douglas corrected him: “No. Because, without wanting to get too specific, this particular cancer is caused by HPV [human papillomavirus], which actually comes about from cunnilingus.”

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