Transfer of gonococcal pharyngitis by kissing?

The relationship to fellatio is shown in a report by Wiesner, Tronca, Bonin, Petersen, and Holmes (1973) from the U.S.A. in which the incidence in homosexual males was fourteen out of 143 (9-8 per cent.) compared with three out of 217 (1 4 per cent.) in heterosexual males. Also from the U.S.A., Owen and Hill (1972) reported finding pharyngeal gonorrhoea in eleven out of 79 (13 9 per cent.) homosexuals. The higher incidence in homosexual males and in women suggests that fellatio is more likely to transfer the organism than is cunnilingus. Br0-Jorgensen and Jensen (1971) could find no evidence of transfer by kissing in their cases, but suggested it as a possibility. Wiesner and others (1973) could find no pairs who had simultaneous pharyngeal infection as the only manifestation. This is a report of such an occurrence.