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Yup. And don't lick someone's genitals if you have it in your mouth. And before you let someone lick your genitals, ask them if they have it.
by proksoup 11y ago
Yup.
And don't lick someone's genitals if you have it in your mouth.
And before you let someone lick your genitals, ask them if they have it.
- cordite 11y agoHow does one diagnose whether they have it orally?
- roel_v 11y agoAFAIK the highest risk of transmission is when there is an outbreak, so you can fairly easily see it.
- roel_v 11y agoLook, I don't care about the karma, but does this downvote mean that HPV-1 is equally transmissible during an outbreak as in latent phases? Because if so, those 2/3rds of the world's population would all need to cut out oral sex from their lives.
- cdcarter 11y agoFirst, HSV, not HPV. Second, you're being downvoted because oral outbreaks can be very mild and may just look like acne, or a razor burn, or any number of other normal dermatological conditions. "Just looking for it" is perhaps the worst way to possibly think about any STD.
- jdpage 11y agoPresumably a dental dam would prevent transmission of HSV-1 during oral sex.
- e12e 11y agoAFAIK risk of transmission is highest before an outbreak. Ie: before it's easier to diagnose visually (and as others have mentioned, not all outbreaks get to a stage where they're easy to diagnose). In response to another question in this thread, the safest way to "diagnose" herpes in others, is probably to ask them. If they don't know (haven't been tested lately), assume they're infected. And if you can't trust them to tell the truth, you probably have no business being (physically) intimate with them... (Not meant as a moral judgement, just as an observation).
- wavefunction 11y agore: roel's post Herpes outbreaks are not necessarily apparent visually, which is true for both hsv-1 AND hsv-2 ("genital herpes"). The only way to really know if you are infected is to get tested during an outbreak, which is not always easy to do as outbreaks do not always correspond to visual cues. So you either need to trust the person you're intimating with or you need to take precautions, which also don't always prevent infection. Condoms reduce the transmission rate, for example, but don't preclude transmission to areas of the body not covered by the condom.
- ryan-c 11y agoYou can get a blood test for IgG antibodies without an outbreak that will differentiate between HSV-1 and HSV-2.
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