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How possible is it to get an STD from being fingered?
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and you can get run over by a bus too.

we don't take the scare approach to std's here. all our replies are based on science , not scare tactics.  this person also had a reply from HHH on the experts forum.  

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Guys what on earth?

YES! Do your research, don't just believe anything someone tells you.. talk to a doctor!

HIV can be transmitted through any part of the body, including the hands. If someone has an open wound on their hand, there is a chance that the HIV virus can be contracted through a micro-tear in the vagina.

Herpes is transmitted usually through visible sores which can live on the penis, vagina, mouth (cold sore) and sometimes even hands!

Any STD that is caught through skin on skin contact, or though an open wound can be transmitted through the hands!

It might be not LIKELY.. but it's POSSIBLE.

Speak to a doctor if you doubt it.
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OK, thanks for the exchange.  I appreciate and do respect your candor.  Keep posting.  I think your postings really reassure people that just need the reassurance.  If that makes sense?  Happy July....almost.

From Chicago,

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I know my facts and I am not here to debate STD transmission from being masterbated. Is anything in this world 100% no of course not but you have to accept that your personal views on what "could" happen are far different then what actually happens.
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Nothing I have said is an opinion.  I may be wrong in my thinking, but to say what I have written is an opinion is absurd.  From cuts comes blood, period.  Now, a cut may have a scab, absolutely.  A cut may be covered.  A cut can be superficial (paper cut).  I understand, too, that body fluid(s) generally die, or die quickly, once they are airborne.  This would be the better angle of making your argument.

People, in general, need to be far more responsible in/with their sexual practices.  Let's try not to scare people, but it is what it is: Fingering, mutual masturbation, what have you is safer sex, of course, by safe sex, I take issue with.  If you want to call my rationale an opinion or unfounded, fine.  As a person in academia, asking questions is a good thing, something I regularly encourage.  What I have learned, as a result of asking questions, is that there are few things, particularly in the area of science, that can be answered/stamped with 100% guarantee.
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You can have your opinion but when it comes to looking at the facts your opinion is not backed up with fact when it comes to tranmission from being masterbated.
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I would think having a wart on one's finger or cut on one's finger puts person being fingered at risk?  Now, I know that having a cut on hand/finger is not necessarily a risk; however, from cuts comes blood, regardless of how small/microscopic the cut may be.  Superficial cuts are just that, superficial.  Still, a cut is a cut.  Therefore, saying fingering is safe sex is not, in my mind, the best or most accurate answer.

I am not a nurse, nor am I doctor.  I do not mean to sound "right," as I'll admit to having a lot to learn.  I'm just thinking from a scientific side, theoretical or not theoretical, not the issue.

Regards
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How are you at risk? Nothing you said involves a STD...dirty hands? a cut? hand wart? Those have nothing to do with a STD.
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Vance, I really don't understand how this can be no risk activity, being fingered that is.  I have researched several different websites and each site seems to give a slightly different answer to this question.  Low risk or lower risk, yes, but no risk, no.  This being said, some sites agree with your assessment and answers.  I just don't know what to believe.  I am a lesbian woman, 33 years old.  I have had very few sexual experiences, but the ones I have had have often included fingering or being fingered.  As I get older, I worry more.  I have not had a sexual partner in two years.  In other words, I have not had sex in two years (most people do not know I am a lesbian and I more regularly get hit on by men).  Back to the issue at hand.  If I am fingered by a woman that has a cut, wart, dirty hand(s), etc., how am I not at risk?

Regards.

I have posted questions to Dr. Hansfield and he has been helpful.  Answering my question(s) essentially the same way you have.  
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I assume that you had a guy or girl masterbate you. Well if this is the case I would not worry about it. It is safe sex what you did-no worries for transmission of STD's.

If you have sex-anal, oral or vaginal make sure you use condoms.
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So you're saying, chances are i'm okay? I was confused about the last part of what you said.
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STD's do not live well outside of the body so if he got anything on his fingers or hands and had an STD then chances are it would die before it even touched you.

And not all STD's are transfered that way, some are transfered from contact. Not just contact of skin, but actual sexual intercourse.
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Haha okay thanks. What if he happened to have *** on his hand or something, just speaking hypothetically lol
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Really-no risk
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There is really no risk?
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no risk
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