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Possible rectal infection?

23 yo. Gay and bottom. My SO and I were sitting down on our couch, a leathery old thing. Turns out that the seat is peeling and when my SO decided to get frisky and finger me a bit of the leather stuck to his finger. It didn't stay in my anus or anything, but is there a chance it might cause an infection?
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This is unlikely to result in any kind of infection.  If the couch leather were teeming with dangerous bacteria, you'd be getting skin infections.  Also, since you didn't harbor it in your anus for days, there's no time for bacterial growth to occur.  I'd forget about it completely.
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