Thank you doc, i have got the words of wisdom i wanted.God bless.
Such transmission may be theoretically possible, but for practical purposes does not occur. In 30+ years in the STD business, not once have I seen a case of genital herpes or HPV in a person who did not have sex, i.e. genital-genital, genital-anal, or genital-oral contact. Genital area MCV can be nonsexually acquired, but such cases virtually always occur due to contact with a young child, not hand-genital contact.
You came here for reassurance and I gave it. Accept it and move on. Stop trying to talk me, and yourself, into believing you were at risk. You were not. Let it go. I won't have any further commetns.
Thnks for your advice doc,
I am reading literature on HPV on these websites, some websites specify that
diseases like Molluscum contagiosum, Herpes Simplex and HPV can be transmitted
by skin to skin contact which necessarily does not involve sex.
If a person goes to a strip club and has lap dances with her (ofcourse he does not have any kind of sexual activity with her, cuz most strip clubs dont allow that), but
they do huggging and sometimes even stroking their breasts, would these activies
cause the transmission of HSV1 or molluscum?
From your description I doubt you have (or ever had) genital warts. Since you are sexually active and have had at least a few different sex partners, the odds are strong you have been infected with HPV, which is a normal event in all sexually active people; most of us probably have several HPV infections during our sexually active lives. Genital warts don't look the same as pimples, moles, or other bumps and uncommonly involve the scrotum or buttocks; any GP or other provider can easily tell the difference (certainly much better than a distant online forum moderator can tell).
To your questions:
1) HPV is not reportable to health authorities. But it wouldn't matter if it were; people's identity almost never leaks out from reporting databases, whether for STDs, HIV, hepatitis, or other reportable conditions. It shouldn't be an issue.
2) I see no reason to see another provider. If your GP didn't see anything abnormal, you can be sure you didn't have warts or any other skin condition of importance.
4,5) There is no point in seeing an STD specialist. There is no way to test men to see if they have high risk HPV anyway. Even if you have had a high risk type -- which certainly is possible -- such infections go away by themselves, usually without ever causing any serious problem.
6) Call off marriage plans??? For HPV??? Of course not. When 80% of the population gets HPV somewhere along the line, and with 25-30% of all sexually active people in their twenties carrying the virus, probably both you and your someday wife are going to go into your marriage with past HPV infection. That's the way it is with everybody.
Sounds like you need to get some basic education about HPV. Please do some serious reading before coming back with additional questions here. Some good starting points are www.cdc.gov/std, www.ashastd.org, www.westoverheights.com, and www.metrokc.gov/health/apu/std.
Good luck-- HHH, MD