Likeliness of Herpes?

I was dating a guy with genital herpes, and we never had vaginal sex. He did, however, touch himself then finger me, and also performed oral sex on me, but I did not do so on him. He was very open about his disease and showed no visible symptoms while we together. I have not been with him for a couple weeks and so far have shown no symptoms of herpes. I was wondering how likely it is that I contracted it from fingering?

[petal130]

Mutual masturbation is safe sex. Genital herpes is considered an STD, and hence you'd have to have sex for it to be transmitted.

You can read a similar thread from Dr. Hook in the expert's forum
http://www.medhelp.org/posts/STDs/Herpes-from-mutual-masturbation/show/1145722

And, if you really want to become educated about genital herpes, read the Herpes Handbook (google it and it comes right up)

[petal130]

Oh, and as to him performing oral sex on you, he'd have to have oral herpes for that to be a risk. He can't transmit his genital herpes from his mouth obviously.