HPV question??

Question

Is there any other way to acquire HPV, other than sexual transmision, or sexual contact (skin to skin contact)??? Ex using the towel of another person, etc etc.

I never had contact with another person in the genital area and I'm a virgin, but the gynecologist thinks that I have hpv, and I forgot to ask her how can I acquire it.

Answer 1

As far as I know skin to skin contact is the only way. The virus is not too far a distant cousin to the warts that develop on people's hand. I believe it is plausible to think that the virus could be passed from one person's genitals to your (or their) hand to your genitals. In that case you would not ever need to have had sex per se but the virus was passed via hand to genital contact ...even that seems unlikely.

Here's some information about perinatal transmission - Although genital HPV types are sometimes transmitted from mother to child during birth, the appearance of genital HPV-related diseases in newborns is rare. Perinatal transmission of HPV types 6 and 11 can result in the development of juvenile-onset recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (JORRP). JORRP is very rare, with rates of about 2 cases per 100,000 children in the United States (Sinal and Woods 2005). Although JORRP rates are substantially higher if a woman presents with genital warts at the time of giving birth, the risk of JORRP in such cases is still less than 1%. Again - a very rare circumstance.

It may be that the diagnosis is wrong. Good luck.

Answer 2

it can be passed down from your parents i'm pretty sure because i have a friend that her mother had it and know she does.