Is it possible to catch an STD only by being dirty?
Like you never have sex with anyone. But when you go to the public bathroom you touch everything, you get splashback from the urinal or toilet seat or whatever, you never wash your hands and touch yourself, people spit on your lips when they talk with a cold sore, you touch another person’s used cup etc…. Being careless about hygiene and all… Could you catch an STD living this way? Or would you only be considered dirty?
July 29th, 2010 at 2:55 pm
Easily. Plenty of viruses and bacteria can live in spit or whatever for a fair while, so getting the spit of an infected person in your mouth (by sharing drinks or whatever) can possibly give you one. However, the chances are pretty small.
July 29th, 2010 at 3:16 pm
Depending on what YES. Example: Hep B lives a long time on surfaces and so on…depends on which ones… now catching AIDS….No
July 29th, 2010 at 3:54 pm
Yes, especially herpes. Herpes symptoms are only noticeable when outbreaks occur. Otherwise, the virus lies in latency in the neck or lower spine, oftentimes never causing any symptoms at all. In fact, there is virtually no way to identify the presence of the virus until an outbreak occurs.
The location of the symptoms of herpes depends on the type of the virus – oral herpes symptoms appear in and around the mouth area, and the genital variety appear in and around the genital and anal areas of the body.
An oral herpes blister is commonly referred to as a cold sore. The outbreak of such a sore begins with a tingling and mile redness of the skin that then develops into a blister that can be quite large and painful. These blisters are usually located very near the lips of the infected person, but herpes symptoms can also be present inside the mouth, particularly on the tongue.
July 29th, 2010 at 4:11 pm
It depends on what you mean by being dirty![](http://picturesofgenitalwarts.net/help-for-genital-warts/" alt=)
If you mean by being unhygienic then NO. You’re not likely to get an std from an inanimate object weather it’s dirty or clean. You’re also not likely to get an std from touching an object that some one with an std used.
You would be more likely to get cold sores by kissing some one that has one, then having some one spit on you while they talk. Cold sores are often passed during child hood by being innocently kissed by or kissing some one that has cold sores and doesn’t know that cold sores are contagious. Cold sores are not typically passed through saliva.
Hepatitis can survive for several days on objects. Stds are sexually transmitted diseases, they are passed on when you have oral sex or sexual intercourse with some one that has one.Here is some information
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