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Anxiety around accidentally becoming pregnant

Hi,

My step son is coming to stay at my house, I have in the past found him masterbating. He was spoken to about this and was told that that is something that maybe he should only do when he is at his moms when he has privacy, I am not sure that this has stopped him. I am scared all the time when he is here that he is doing this I have anxiety around this I think maybe because it was me that caught him doing this. I am scared that he is doing this not washing his hands and touching things that I am then going to touch and I will get pregnant, this is crazy I know I just need re assurance none of that can happen .
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You’re not going to get pregnant from your step-son masturbating and not washing his hands.  Sperm have to be released in the vagina and be able to “swim” upstream to your eggs.  

You don’t say how old this child is, but it’s pretty normal for kids to masturbate.  Especially, when they get into (or close to) teenage years, (putting it very simply) they have raging hormones and begin discovering their own body - aka masturbation.   Although you can’t get sperm from things he’s touched, he should be reminded to wash his hands on a regular basis and not touch things that others will touch if he’s not washed.  It has nothing to do with you being able to get pregnant (you can’t); it’s about not passing germs around.  Just like we’d teach our children to wash their  hands after going to the bathroom, this child should be taught to wash his hands after masturbating.
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