What is the risk for any STD/STIs from massage parlors with handjob only?

[rob899704]

I am thinking to becoming a regular at a message parlor which provides a normal massage then followed by some extra hand job (she is fully clothed). My only concern is if the massage oil or its container or her hands can have virus particles from mainly when she gives a handjob to a positive customer and maybe somehow there are some viral particles that come into contact with my penis and potentially get something like HSV-1/HSV-2 or HPV. I am not concerned about bacterial STDs too much and other viral STDs like HIV, Hep B, Hep C.

[auntiejessi]

There are no risks from handjobs. Hands do not transmit any STDs.

While people can get herpes on their fingers, if they do not have an outbreak of it, they are not contagious. Don't let anyone with broken skin, rashes, etc., on their hands touch your penis. Other things that are not considered STDs can be transmitted this way - staph, MRSA, monkeypox, etc.

[rob899704]

Thanks a lot. Unfortunately, there is almost no way I can check the hands, there are only about 4 confirmed cases of monkeypox in our country. Also not sure how likely it is to contract resistant bacteria strains. But eitherway, my main concerns are really genital warts from HPV or some other virus or herpes. I would suspect it could be a more common possibility that customers would have them around their genitals when they sleep around with sexual workers even with condoms

[auntiejessi]

If someone is going to touch your penis, I think it's okay to ask them about sores on their hands. If you were touching me intimately, I'd feel fine asking you.

It doesn't matter what they have genitally. No STD would survive in the oil, and if it did, STDs need certain things to transmit - oral, vaginal or anal sex, or unclothed direct genital to genital/anal contact with heavy grinding/rubbing.

Any viral particles that may survive in oil would be so degraded within seconds that they would be unable to transmit.

And assume that she washes her hands in between clients. Sex workers are doing a job. Their livelihood depends on them not being gross. And really, if she had oil on her hands and didn't at least wipe them, she wouldn't be able to open the door.

Your imagination is carrying you away here.