Risk of herpes from a body rub?

[Sydneycyde]

Hello there. Recently I thought getting an erotic massage might help me relax for a little while. I called up an agency in Australia and a girl came to my hotel room. This was not an escort service for sex but an erotic massage service. She kept her underwear on most of the time when she was sitting on my back giving me a massage, however she eventually took it off. Her vagina never came in contact with my genitals however it would have rubbed up against my thigh , upper body and other parts of my legs. I also stroked her vagina with my fingers but never inserted them. Is there a chance that if she had genital herpes and was shedding the virus that I could have contracted it aswell? Thankyou for your advice.

[Terri Warren, RN, Adult Nurse Practitioner]

No, I don't believe that you are at risk for acquiring genital herpes from this contact  The skin on your back, legs, and thighs is too thick for virus to penetrate intact skin.  Also, it doesn't sound like there was contact from the more interior parts of her labia with your hands so I doubt that is a risk.  Risk from mutual masturbation, which this doesn't even sound like is very low indeed.  However, you did mention staying hard while she got massage oil, etc, so I'm wondering if she did masturbate you, it sounds like she did.  No change really if she did, in my opinion.  

Good idea to stay off the internet forums.  

Have you ever been tested to know if you have herpes or not?  

Terri

[Terri Warren, RN, Adult Nurse Practitioner]

I am not concerned about the hair follicles on your leg.  The skin on the leg is thick enough that virus does not penetrate intact skin of that kind.  The only risk you have, and it is extremely extremely small, is her vaginal secretions on your hand, but even that is so small because you were only touching her labia major, the outer part of her genitals rather than deeper where you would pick up secretions on your hands.  It takes a certain amount of virus to infect someone and with masturbation, we really don't believe there is generally enough virus to transmit.  If you remember this statistic it might help:

If an uninfected man has unprotected sex with a woman with HSV 2 100 times in a year, there is only a 4% chance he will get herpes from her.  So now apply those statistics to you only you didn't have intercourse or anything close to it.  If that couple had intercourse only once in a year, you can see that the risk is .04%, if I'm doing my math correctly.  And you didn't have intercourse at all.

Remember that I am the expert on this board.  No one else is.  And when people report their own experience, there are so many factors that make that suspect, including questionable test results, other experiences, the whole deal.  

Terri

[Sydneycyde]

Can you explain exactly what your situation was?

[Aliherpe]

You need to get tested for piece of mind.
I do not want to alarm you, but I got HSV2 from a hand job, in a similar situation as yourself.
Have you had any other symptons, like backache or flu like? How is your appitite?

[Sydneycyde]

Yes she did masturbate me but she did not masturbate herself. Thankyou for your answer I do appreciate it very much. Can I ask about the ingrown hairs healing on my leg? They were at the stages of healing where the scab was mostly gone and it was forming new skin or scar tissue. Is this skin to thick for the virus to penetrate? And also can you explain to me why the risk is so low for mutual masturbation please? I have been tested in the past and I was positive for HSV 1 which I expected because I get cold sores, and negative for HSV 2.Thankyou very much for answering my questions!

[Sydneycyde]

I keep replaying this in my mind and now I remember that I also touched my own genitals after rubbing hers, although Im not sure how long after At some stages during the massage I was running my fingers over her vagina and anus softly kind of tickling her, but I did not penetrate her. I also masturbated myself for short periods of time to stay hard when she was doing things like getting massage oil etc. Im trying to stay off the internet forums and I look forward to hearing from an expert for advice.

[Sydneycyde]

I also had 3 ingrown hairs that were healing on my thigh if that information helps you ***** my risk. They were at the final stages of healing where the scab was just about gone and was turning into scar tissue or new skin.