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Worried About Potential Risks
First, I am a male from the United States, but I am studying in Ireland. The other night I received a lap dance in a casino/lap dance place in Dublin. I was fully clothed the entire time. Currently, I am in a relationship and I am getting married soon and I feel incredibly guilty and terrible about the whole thing. The stripper did get naked and she touched herself, but I did not touch her or kiss her. She did rub on me vigorously, but again I was fully clothed (Jeans and Underwear). The thing I am worried about is that during the course of the 3-4 minute lap dance is that she touched the top of my hand after rubbing her vagina. After receiving the lap dance I walked downstairs to go to the bathroom. I am wondering if by any chance any of her secretions from her touching herself and then touching my hand would I be vulnerable to any std risks, including HIV, by going to the bathroom later? How long would any std & HIV survive after leaving the body? Is there anything I should be worried about? I know it sounds ludicrous, but I appreciate your response. Thank you.
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
No appreciable risk for hepatitis of any type. That a virus has "potential" to survive outside the body makes no difference; even for HIV, it isn't survival time away from the body that makes the risk low.
That will be all for this thread. I won't have any further comments or advice. Please just forget this event, kick back with a Guinness, and go on with your studies and your life.
That will be all for this thread. I won't have any further comments or advice. Please just forget this event, kick back with a Guinness, and go on with your studies and your life.
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What about Hepatitis, as it has the potential to survive outside of the body for an extended period of time? Could I have infected myself by going directly to the bathroom to urinate (or even eating later) after she touches the top of my hand (with her vaginal secretions) after touching her vagina? Also, although I was in Ireland, the dancers were all of Eastern European decent. What is the likelihood such a person would have an STD, Hepatitis, or HIV? Thank you, and I appreciate your response.
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
Welcome to the STD forum.
There is no risk here. They call them STDs because you have to have sex to transmit or catch them (duh) -- and you did not. Although some people seem to think that STDs are merely infections that happen to involve the genitals and are easily transmitted, there is much more to it than that. If an infection could be transmitted by the sort of contact you describe, it wouldn't be classified as an STD. That's why things like staph, strep, common colds, and influenza are easily transmitted and very common in everybody, but things like gonorrhea, chlamydia, herpes and syphilis are not.
Here is another thread that explains the biology of it all in some detail; as you will see, the original question was much like yours. Start reading with the follow-up comment dated December 14.
http://www.medhelp.org/posts/show/1119533
Bottom line: No risk, no worries. Best wishes for the success of your studies in a beautiful land-- HHH, MD
There is no risk here. They call them STDs because you have to have sex to transmit or catch them (duh) -- and you did not. Although some people seem to think that STDs are merely infections that happen to involve the genitals and are easily transmitted, there is much more to it than that. If an infection could be transmitted by the sort of contact you describe, it wouldn't be classified as an STD. That's why things like staph, strep, common colds, and influenza are easily transmitted and very common in everybody, but things like gonorrhea, chlamydia, herpes and syphilis are not.
Here is another thread that explains the biology of it all in some detail; as you will see, the original question was much like yours. Start reading with the follow-up comment dated December 14.
http://www.medhelp.org/posts/show/1119533
Bottom line: No risk, no worries. Best wishes for the success of your studies in a beautiful land-- HHH, MD
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Herpes spreads by oral, vaginal and anal sex.
Herpes sores blister, then burst, scab and heal.
STIs are the most common cause of genital sores.
Millions of people are diagnosed with STDs in the U.S. each year.
STDs can't be transmitted by casual contact, like hugging or touching.
Syphilis is an STD that is transmitted by oral, genital and anal sex.
