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Can I pass HSV1 through dry humping

I am a lesbian and my partner and I wear dry humping with underwear on. I have genital HSV1
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Herpes (and other STDs) doesn't go through clothing. You can't transmit anything with clothing on.

Also, ghsv1 rarely transmits to anyone else. It doesn't recur frequently, and doesn't shed frequently. Also, if your partner also has hsv1, either orally or genitally, it would be HIGHLY unlikely for them to get it again.

I wouldn't worry about this at all.
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Thank you for responding so quick . But what about inner thighs? Is it possible to spread through there . Our genitals had no contact and no body fluids either
I am a little worried that I might have passed it to her . We only dried hump for a minute or less.  She was wearing underwear and I was wearing shorts but my shorts lifted up near my underwear because of the rubbing . I have not had an outbreak since my initial one which has been about 3 years . However I do feel weird se stations since my first ob. I just want to ease my mind
No, the virus only sheds from the mucus membranes - the vulva, vagina, anal areas - the "pink", moist areas. (I say pink in quotations because I know not everyone's genitals are pink, but everyone seems to know what the "pink" areas are even if theirs aren't pink.)

You may never get another outbreak. About 40% of people only get the initial outbreak of ghsv1, and you've had it for 3 years. We know that with ghsv1, you are most infectious in the first 2 years, then the rates of shedding drops way off, to maybe 4 days a year. (It wasn't that high to start with, either.)

Chances of you ever transmitting this are very, very, very low, like winning the lottery on the day you get hit by a bus. Just don't have sex while you have an outbreak.

I don't know what your weird sensations are - maybe a heightened awareness of your genitals since your diagnosis?

Also, women who have sex with women, just by the nature of activities and biology, are less likely to transmit STDs than any other coupling.

Really, I wish you wouldn't worry. No STD goes through clothing, you don't shed from your thighs, you probably weren't shedding anyway, your genitals weren't touching, women who have sex with women are unlikely to transmit STDs, and you probably won't ever transmit it. :)  
Thank you so much ! You just lifted a weight off my shoulder :)
I really do appreciate you responding back to me . I also have another question, can you only get infected through mucous membranes  or through breaks through the skin ?  I know you already explained to me that inner thighs don’t shed virus . But I am just thinking about the outside of my underwear area and hers. Our genitals didn’t touch but the the outside skin of our underwear’s did . I guess that is why I am asking if in order to get infected She had to have her Mucus membrane exposed ?
Yes, you'd both have to have your mucus membranes exposed, like vulva to vulva. Even then, you'd have to have an outbreak or be shedding, and you're probably shedding 4 days a year, and she'd have to not already be infected with hsv1.

You are not a walking biohazard. If you remember nothing else, please try to remember that. You are barely infectious.
Hi ! I am just wanted to add something . When I got home that night I noticed a cut in the back of my thigh right below my buttocks. Now I am not sure if my partner had any skin contact with the cut . Those this increase the risk of me passing the virus ?
No, her skin was most likely intact, and the virus can't penetrate intact skin, and isn't shedding from your thigh, even with a cut.

Really, you aren't nearly as infectious as you think. It makes me sad to know you are so worried about this. You are not a walking, talking biohazard.
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