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Gay bathhouse, am i risk of Herpes and how often?

I have never been active sexually until 3 months ago . Went to a gay bathhouse for 9 times as an over all with in  these 3 months. All the activities I have been practicing was receiving unprotected oral . French kissing . Mutual masturbation and some naked cuddling and few times I fingered some of those random people there. Read about the Std risks so I went for HIV/STD testing a month ago and found my results all negative. Since then I had 3 times naked cuddling, mutual masturbation, french kissing , received oral twice with condom and fingered someone once with a glove. I'm super worried some of these activities might have been a risk of transmission of anything for me including herpes . Noticing that all whom I have been were looking healthy with no visible sores or anything but who knows!

Yesterday I noticed a small pimple in my inner lip cavity. I used to have such a thing rarely when I was sick or stressed even before having any sexual activities . But I'm afraid if it would be something . Am I at a risk of any STDs or HIV or even Herpes? Are the transmission rates of herpes or STDs from my sexual activities high or am i safe? Do I need another testing? I'm really horribly terrified!
Please give me an answer I need to move on specially that I decided to abstain from these activities as I will get married in May.

I really appreciate your help and your answers.
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Great, thanks for letting me know that I'm feeling relieved.
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Negligible risk in these activities, less than a percentage point.
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I went testing a month ago after all the unprotected activities and it all went negative . After that i had protected oral, protected fingering and french kissing? Is there anything risky within these activities? I'm sorry to be asking more than once it's just I need to release that stress. I will get tested anyway but is there any percentage i might caught anything?
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This all sounds low risk activity of receiving any STD. Active lesions would most likely need to be present on or inside your partners mouths to represent any real risk. If you have only received oral sex then there are no documented cases of HIV transmission. Fingering no risk.

Are you saying you think you may have had cold sores as a kid? Most people experience mouth sores inside when stressed but these tend not to be herpes. If you do have oral HSV1 then there's no real risk of being infected genitally.

I suggest though that when you finish this adventure, why not get mutually tested with your intended and make some informed decisions from there.
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