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Can I get std from feeling someone’s breasts or legs?
I was on a date and I was fooling around with a girl, feeling her breasts and then I noticed something on her leg which could have been a rash or a sore or something, so I stopped immediately. I had my clothes on but was wearing shorts. My concerns are:
- Could I get some std/sti by feeling her breasts.
- what if my leg accidentally touched her leg and she has some sore / std?
- I do not know if she has some std as she wouldn’t tell me, but that rash looked weird.
- even though our genitals did not touch, is there a risk of me getting hpv or genital warts?
Realistically, should I take some antibiotic so I don’t get syphillis?
What action can I take so I can forget about the whole thing? And so that I do not endanger my health or anyone else’s?
Should I worry about serving myself food with the same utensils that family members use? Is there a risk of infecting them?
- Could I get some std/sti by feeling her breasts.
- what if my leg accidentally touched her leg and she has some sore / std?
- I do not know if she has some std as she wouldn’t tell me, but that rash looked weird.
- even though our genitals did not touch, is there a risk of me getting hpv or genital warts?
Realistically, should I take some antibiotic so I don’t get syphillis?
What action can I take so I can forget about the whole thing? And so that I do not endanger my health or anyone else’s?
Should I worry about serving myself food with the same utensils that family members use? Is there a risk of infecting them?
As their name indicates, STDs are transmitted by sexual activities. Some of them can also be transmitted by using medical instruments such as needles. Touching is not a risk. If it were, we would see millions of new cases of people affected by STDs every single day just because they gave someone a handshake.
All the best.
All the best.
You have zero risk. The following is from a similar post that Dr. Hansfield replied to:
There is no STD risk from kissing, fingering, body rubbing, exposure to genital fluids through clothing, or hand-genital contact, even when lubricated by genital fluids or saliva. Why not? Because STDs are not simply infections that happen to involve the genital area. The bacteria and viruses that cause them evolved in a way that requires intercourse or similarly intimate exposure (e.g. from mother to baby during delivery) for transmission to occur. If superficial or minor exposure to small amounts of these bacteria and viruses, or to infected fluids, could result in transmission, they would be common in people who haven't had sex and would not be classified as STDs to begin with.
Could rare cases in fact be transmitted by the sorts of contact you describe? Perhaps once in a long while, but far too rarely to measure or worry about. Just think about the millions upon millions of such exposures that occur every year in the United States; plus the fact that even the busiest STD clinics never see infected patients who only had such exposures. With virtually no exceptions, everyone with diagnosed STDs has had intercourse (vaginal, anal, or oral), usually unprotected. This fact alone tells you that there is no significant risk -- apart from the biological factors just discussed.
There is no STD risk from kissing, fingering, body rubbing, exposure to genital fluids through clothing, or hand-genital contact, even when lubricated by genital fluids or saliva. Why not? Because STDs are not simply infections that happen to involve the genital area. The bacteria and viruses that cause them evolved in a way that requires intercourse or similarly intimate exposure (e.g. from mother to baby during delivery) for transmission to occur. If superficial or minor exposure to small amounts of these bacteria and viruses, or to infected fluids, could result in transmission, they would be common in people who haven't had sex and would not be classified as STDs to begin with.
Could rare cases in fact be transmitted by the sorts of contact you describe? Perhaps once in a long while, but far too rarely to measure or worry about. Just think about the millions upon millions of such exposures that occur every year in the United States; plus the fact that even the busiest STD clinics never see infected patients who only had such exposures. With virtually no exceptions, everyone with diagnosed STDs has had intercourse (vaginal, anal, or oral), usually unprotected. This fact alone tells you that there is no significant risk -- apart from the biological factors just discussed.
As far as I know, your risk is zero. Let's wait for the explanations from the experts.
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STDs can't be transmitted by casual contact, like hugging or touching.
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