Your assessment is correct. As I said before, you have nothing to worry about EWH
Additionaly i assume that any lesion on the gentials would be visable by the naked eye.
Thank you for the above.
I therefore take it that my risk of gential HSV is very low as there was no direct contact the only contact was her gentials-to-my hand-to-my gentails
And as for me preforming oral sex this is also a low risk factor as the likelyhood of hsv 2 to oral is a rare cause.
thanks
Your risk is low even though, as you point out, it is likely that you partner does have herpes of some sort. HSV is spread by direct contact with lesions or intact skin where the virus is present (this is called asymptomatic shedding). We know that the virus is actually not very efficiently transmitted and that most exposures to partners with herpes do not lead to transmission of infection. From performing oral sex on her there is little risk. Interestingly, HSV-2 is a rare cause of oral herpes. Very little risk from mutual masturbation – the virus is poorly tranmitted to non genital, non mucosal skin. The fact that she is on acyclovir reduces the already low chance of her transmitting herpes by about 50%.
If you do not develop lesions within 7-10 days of your exposure, you have almost certainly not gotten infection. Should you develop a rash or lesions in an exposed are during that period, I would go get a culture or PCR test of the lesions. Hope this helps. EWH