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IS there an HPV Risk? very nervous
Hi Doctor,
I'm new to the forum. Recently I have come to learn about HPV and that it can affect men just as it can affect women. I also recently began reading that it can cause oral cancers and even throat or brain cancers, etc.
This disease is very hard to stop and easy to catch from someone. The weird part is that apparently most people have it. I have never been so confused before about something.
Anyways, a few weeks ago I saw this woman, let's call her a "wrestler" who also engages in some erotic acts. While we didn't have intercourse she did give me a handjob and throughout the course of our time together she was licking my entire face and neck all over. She didn't kiss me at all or get inside my mouth. However now I'm concerned that her saliva was all over my face for probably around 30 minutes and this might allow for HPV transmission if she does have it. It's a disease she might not even know she has.
I guess my question is, is there a risk of HPV transmission through this means assuming she unknowingly carries this disease.
I'm VERY concerned.
Thank you doc!
I'm new to the forum. Recently I have come to learn about HPV and that it can affect men just as it can affect women. I also recently began reading that it can cause oral cancers and even throat or brain cancers, etc.
This disease is very hard to stop and easy to catch from someone. The weird part is that apparently most people have it. I have never been so confused before about something.
Anyways, a few weeks ago I saw this woman, let's call her a "wrestler" who also engages in some erotic acts. While we didn't have intercourse she did give me a handjob and throughout the course of our time together she was licking my entire face and neck all over. She didn't kiss me at all or get inside my mouth. However now I'm concerned that her saliva was all over my face for probably around 30 minutes and this might allow for HPV transmission if she does have it. It's a disease she might not even know she has.
I guess my question is, is there a risk of HPV transmission through this means assuming she unknowingly carries this disease.
I'm VERY concerned.
Thank you doc!
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
Clarification: The opening sentence of paragraph 2 should be "HPV is rarely transmitted without insertive vaginal or anal sex." Oral-genital HPV transmission occurs, but not nearly as much as by vaginal/anal exposure. Sorry for any confusion.
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
Welcome to the forum. Thanks for your question.
HPV is rarely transmitted without insertive oral sex. In other words, without your penis entering another person's vagina or rectum, you are at liitle or no risk. If transmission occurs by oral sex or by non-penetrating body contact of the sort you had, it is rare. And everybody gets HPV anyway; it is useless to try to prevent it. Fortunately, the vast majority of infections clear up, even without treatment, and never cause cancer or any other serious health problem. HPV-related oral cancer is indeed increasing in frequency, but it remains rare.
In other words, there is no need for your to be "VERY concerned". Below I have given a link to another thread with discussion about HPV; it has links to several other discussions. Together, these discussions should reassure you about sexual transmission of HPV. Please read them.
http://www.medhelp.org/posts/STDs/HPV-concerns/show/1819004
I hope this has helped reassure you. Best wishes-- HHH, MD
HPV is rarely transmitted without insertive oral sex. In other words, without your penis entering another person's vagina or rectum, you are at liitle or no risk. If transmission occurs by oral sex or by non-penetrating body contact of the sort you had, it is rare. And everybody gets HPV anyway; it is useless to try to prevent it. Fortunately, the vast majority of infections clear up, even without treatment, and never cause cancer or any other serious health problem. HPV-related oral cancer is indeed increasing in frequency, but it remains rare.
In other words, there is no need for your to be "VERY concerned". Below I have given a link to another thread with discussion about HPV; it has links to several other discussions. Together, these discussions should reassure you about sexual transmission of HPV. Please read them.
http://www.medhelp.org/posts/STDs/HPV-concerns/show/1819004
I hope this has helped reassure you. Best wishes-- HHH, MD
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