QUESTIONS ABOUT STDS: CAN YOU GET AN STD FROM KISSING? CAN YOU GET AN STD FROM A TOILET SEAT, A DRINKING GLASS, A FLANNEL, A TOWEL OR SOME OTHER OBJECT?
March 27th, 2009As a general rule, you can’t get STDs from kissing; however, herpes and syphilis can cause sores on the genitals. If you had oral-genital sex with someone who had a herpes or syphilis sore on the genitals, then you could get a sore on your lips. Or if you kissed a person who had such a sore on his or her lips, you could get the infection. You can’t get AIDS from ‘dry’ kissing, and ‘wet’, or French, kissing is probably safe too. Although small amounts of HIV may be present in saliva, experts doubt that such small amounts could cause infection. But it’s best to be careful who you French kiss.
Can you get an STD from a toilet seat, a drinking glass, a flannel, a towel or some other object?
However, there have been some cases of people developing certain STDs from objects. For example, if you used an object, such as a drinking glass, a flannel or towel soon after it had come in contact with a mouth sore of a person who had syphilis or herpes, you could pick up the disease. Or, if you used a flannel or towel soon after it was used by someone who had pubic lice or an STD discharge from their penis or vagina, you might pick up the infection. Or if you somehow managed to put the mucous membrane of your sex organs in contact with a toilet seat that had just been used by a person with an STD discharge or sore and that person’s sore or discharge had come in contact with the toilet seat, it is conceivable that you could get an STD in this way. But such a series of events is highly unlikely. So, practically speaking, it is highly unlikely for a person to get an STD from a toilet seat.
We should also mention that you can’t get an STD from a swimming pool, by sitting on someone’s lap with your clothes on, from the air, from masturbating yourself or in any ways other than the ones we’ve mentioned so far.
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