Does having sex with multiple partners increase your risk for STD's and HIV?

Question

I was always taught that having sex with multiple partners increases your chance of contracting STD's and/ or HIV. Is this true? If so why?

I thought it did. I'm not talking about myself. This girl I used to hang out with lost her virginity and started sleeping around and caught chlamydia then genital herpes. She told me the doctors explained to her that sleeping around increases your chances for infections in your vaginal area.

Well her mom has AIDS and thats why I don't understand why she's being so reckless. She recently told me she's trying to get pregnant despite having genital herpes. Gross.

Answer 1

YES! The more exposure other people have, the more exposure you will have. Many, some or all of them could have it and not know and pass it on to you.
Lets say you sit in a pit with no rattle snakes, the chance of you getting bit is zero. Then someone puts one snake in the pit with you. This is one penis in your vagina. It may not bite you (with disease) but the chance greater.
Lets say you put 20 snakes in there (this is 20 penises in your vagina) you have 20 more chances of getting bit and poisoned.
But if you have a plastic shield around you (this is a condom), the snakes can spit and spit but you greatly reduce the chance that any of the poison will get in you.
Does that example make more sense to you?

Answer 2

Lets follow through an example:

I have the flu. I have a family that is close with each other and we tend to drink out of other people's glasses. Soon my entire family is sick with the flu.

AIDS/HIV is not quite like that. It doesn't get spread through sipping out of a glass. But the effective is similar. If you are having sex with an individual with HIV or other STDs. Or have multiple partners. You are probably not being careful enough to know if the other person has an STD or HIV. If you asked the person could lie. If you just met someone probably don't ask.

Having multiple partners does infact increase the risk of infection. That is because most people with multiple partners are not practicing safe sex or taking the time to get to know someone enough to know whether or not they have a STD in the first place. This is probably why she has something already.

If she refuses to stop having sex then she needs to make sure she protects herself. The first step to not getting a STD is to make yoru partner where condoms no matter what. If they refuse then refuse to have sex.

Go to the website I placed as my source, I didn't quite get my information there but rather from my training, but that website informs you all about the HIV/AIDS virus and about STD's and how to protect yourself.

Answer 3

Of course it is true! Unless you are in a monagomis relationship you are at risk fro STD's and/or HIV. There is always that possibility that one person has been with one person that's been with someone that has an STD or infrection or HIV. It's like a chain reaction. For every multiple partner you have it increases your chances of catching an STD an/or HIV by like 10%. If you ever do decide to have multiple partners, I would take as many saftey precautions as possible. But on the other hand if it was me, I wouldn't have multiple partners. I guess your friend learned the lesson the hard way hu?

Answer 4

Yes Yes Yes, Well unprotected sex with anyone is risky and if you have sex with multiple partners then you multiply the risk, now if you have sex with partners who also have sex with multiple partners you can see how the risk increases. If you sleep with 3 guys, and each of them sleeps with you and 2 others, and what if their sleep partners sleep around also? Can you understand. Also if you sleep with just one and you do contract a STD, first y ou know where you got it from and you can be treated as well as the partner, but if you are sleeping with several, then you really don't know where you got it from, and they may not know where they got it from and the vicious cycle just keeps going.

Answer 5

OMG what do you mean why? This is simple math. If you sleep with one person you have a small risk of contracting it depending on whether or not that person has HIV/STD's. If you sleep with 1000 people, there is more room for exposure. You are more likely to catch an STD from 1000 people as opposed to just one.

Answer 6

Yes. Of course it does. Cause each one of them could be carrying HIV or STD's. So each one increases the odds that you could get it.

Why bother? You can only love one. One at a time. That is bonding, and loving and sharing. That could lead to a lifetime.

So why bother with others? Just believe in yourself, and do the best you can in life. That's all ya need.

Answer 7

i think of having distinctive companions will develop your possibility to a undeniable quantity, once you think of approximately it, that's no longer consistently with regard to the style of companions you have had, yet this way of sexual habit you work together in, evaluate 2 persons that have 10 companions each and each, even with the undeniable fact that one human getting used condoms consistently, and the different individual did no longer use condoms in any respect, who's extra in threat of catching an STD? anybody lies approximately how approximately many sexual companions they have had. the nice and snug button is, use protection consistently, and there's a intense possibility you will no longer seize something. condoms are incredibly powerful against retaining each and every STD, and almost one hundred% powerful against HIV. the reason scientific experts say nonetheless very volatile is b/c the possibilities and negative aspects could desire to get slimmer at a while, think of with regard to the very sexually energetic people which incorporate celebrities and athletes, think of how many companions they have had, magic johnson has had hundreds of girls before he caught HIV, he admitted to having 9 women folk at as quickly as.

Answer 8

Your friend needs someone to talk with that is qualified to help her realize why she may be doing all these things. Your chances are increased with each partner you have. Everytime a person has sex with a different person, they are having sex with EVERYONE that person has ever been with.

Answer 9

Your friend got off easy. She just got chlamydia and genital herpes. She's lucky, with her behavior she could have ended up with HIV.

Answer 10

If you're having unprotected sex you will increase your risk of STD's, but I don't understand why anyone should have multiple partners.


(one at a time!!!)