He asked, “I have been having anal sex from a long time, would that at any stage in life make me incontinent?” There was a definite note of concern in his voice and to my surprise, I didn’t seem to have an answer to his query! Later, when I looked up into the medical literature I realized there aren’t many studies that could answer the question either, but what I did find out was that there are a lot of questions that people have about anal sex and its complications and there is a lot of ignorance as well. I reassured him and found out later that it was just an anal tear, however, why I must come up with this incidence today is because of the question he asked me afterwards. I received a hapless call in the early morning, from a friend who seemed frightened because after a relatively “wild” session in the bed the previous night, he noticed that it was terribly painful to go to the loo in the morning and there were streaks of bleeding too. Apart from contracting STDs, there are other risks associated with anal sex, tells Dr.
