2006-07-12 06:03:09 · 20 answers · asked by eholguin788402004 2 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ STDs
How STDs Spread
One reason STDs spread is because people think they need to have sexual intercourse to become infected. That's wrong. A person can get some STDs, like herpes or genital warts, through skin-to-skin contact with an infected area or sore. Another myth about STDs is that you can't get them if you have oral or anal sex. That's also wrong because the viruses or bacteria that cause STDs can enter the body through tiny cuts or tears in the mouth and anus, as well as the genitals.
STDs also spread easily because you can't tell whether someone has an infection. In fact, some people with STDs don't even know that they have them. These people are in danger of passing an infection on to their sex partners without even realizing it.
Some of the things that increase a person's chances of getting an STD are:
Sexual activity at a young age. The younger a person starts having sex, the greater his or her changes of becoming infected with an STD.
Lots of sex partners. People who have sexual contact — not just intercourse, but any form of intimate activity — with many different partners are more at risk than those who stay with the same partner.
Unprotected sex. Latex condoms are the only form of birth control that lessen your risk of contracting an STD. Spermicides, diaphragms, and other birth control methods may help prevent pregnancy, but they don't protect a person against STDs.
2006-07-12 06:50:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-05-01 21:40:10 · answer #2 · answered by John 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-08-31 09:35:19 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How do you think they get around? Straight women don't give it to other straight women.
The only STD that you cannot "get" if you are male is HPV, but you can still be a carrier. You just won't have any symptoms. However, the virus is mutating and has now been linked to some throat cancers, so it is only a matter of time that it will effect males too!
All other STDs are passed by blood or other body fluids, and can be passed from men to women and from women to men.
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Correction: HPV is commonly undetected and asymptomatic in males. Men do not get Cancer from HPV but they can get the benign warts. You don't have to have the warts to spread the infection.
2006-07-12 06:09:31 · answer #4 · answered by Sara B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YES. Be safe. Use condoms. Read the instructions. Don't "go down" on each other. Always bathe before intercourse. Look over your partner's body for any warts, lesions. If it smells bad, like tuna, it is a infection curable by penicillin. Women have more symptoms than males due to our anatomy. Males can carry yeast infections. Plus a virus that can cause cervical cancer in women.
2006-07-12 06:16:48 · answer #5 · answered by MoonWoman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What do you mean "readily passed from a male to a female than from a female to a male"? That isn't making sense to me.
2016-03-15 23:04:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
ya if you are a female you can pass a std to a male.
2006-07-12 06:38:01 · answer #7 · answered by star_punky2005 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course they can. How do you think men get STD's?
2006-07-12 06:05:04 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You bet they can. Use a condom or prophylactic sheath every time! (That also avoids unplanned pregnancies!)
More bad news: women do not show the symptoms of gonorrhea as clearly as men do, so they can have it (and pass it on) quite unintentionally. Same way, I believe, with Chlamydia, though that's a rarer disease.
2006-07-12 06:10:12 · answer #9 · answered by Dick Eney 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Any kind of body fluid exchange can transmitt STDs.
2006-07-12 06:40:06 · answer #10 · answered by alaa_tm 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋