A couple of weeks ago I noticed what I suspected was a small genital wart on the shaft of my penis.
I'd never had an STD before, and this really shocked me, because it happened despite the fact that I had always used condoms. Apparently, you can get both genital warts and herpes quite easily despite covering up, because the virus that causes both can transfer skin to skin.
And there's some kind of huge statistic, like 50% of the people who have ever had more than 2 or 3 sexual partners in their lives have some form of active or inactive genital warts. It's quite troubling.
Also, because I had been seeing one particular SP on a regular basis. And because most genital warts appear from 1-3 months after contact, I expect that it probably was passed along to me from her even though she had no detectable symtomns herself.
Checking in at my local clinic, a doctor zapped it quite readily with a little bit of liquid nitrogen, and within 7 days all traces of it were gone.
After looking up as much as I could online on the topic, I'm still not quite sure how serious these warts are. A consensus of material that I had seen seemed to indicate that possibly 90% of genital wart issues are strictly cosmetic, though women should get regular pap smears; and that there are generally no serious side effects, and the warts themselves will often disappear on their own without treatment, but herpes is another ballgame altogether.
How serious to health are genital warts and herpes?
Can they be substantially prevented by showering immediately after sexual contact?
Also if the pooner limits their activity to covered BJ's and massage are they substantially safer?
I'd never had an STD before, and this really shocked me, because it happened despite the fact that I had always used condoms. Apparently, you can get both genital warts and herpes quite easily despite covering up, because the virus that causes both can transfer skin to skin.
And there's some kind of huge statistic, like 50% of the people who have ever had more than 2 or 3 sexual partners in their lives have some form of active or inactive genital warts. It's quite troubling.
Also, because I had been seeing one particular SP on a regular basis. And because most genital warts appear from 1-3 months after contact, I expect that it probably was passed along to me from her even though she had no detectable symtomns herself.
Checking in at my local clinic, a doctor zapped it quite readily with a little bit of liquid nitrogen, and within 7 days all traces of it were gone.
After looking up as much as I could online on the topic, I'm still not quite sure how serious these warts are. A consensus of material that I had seen seemed to indicate that possibly 90% of genital wart issues are strictly cosmetic, though women should get regular pap smears; and that there are generally no serious side effects, and the warts themselves will often disappear on their own without treatment, but herpes is another ballgame altogether.
How serious to health are genital warts and herpes?
Can they be substantially prevented by showering immediately after sexual contact?
Also if the pooner limits their activity to covered BJ's and massage are they substantially safer?