How do people get STD's?

[Anonymous]

Hear me out. So STD's are sexually transmitted diseases. Okay so you get them by having sex. Some are spread via pure skin to skin contact and some are spread via bodily fluids. This means then, that you can get them by blood transfusions (medical or cut on cut). I understand medical is EXTREMELY rare and they test for all that. You could share needles. Okay, that's because the needles transmit the blood. But how do you get an STD? You could have sex with a person who has an STD. BUT What if you're a virgin, and they're a virgin. Neither one of you has an STD of any kind. If you have sex, could either of you get an STD? Are they spontaneously occurring based on how the fluids mix? Or if you're both virgins with no STDs is it impossible to contract one?

[madhatters4]

you seem to confuse SEXUALLY transmitted diseases with the general transmission of diseases

so you can get AIDs with out sex. you can get it passed to you genetically, you could get it from exposure to the blood of a person with AIDs (broken skin or sharing needles for example) or you can get it via sex. getting AIDs via sex is an STD.

are diseases spontaneously occurring? some may but not the types of diseases you get from sex. Is it possible for two virgins to pass STDs? yes, if a person has the herpes virus in them (received say genetically) or AIDs in them already then they can pass it to the other virgin through sexual transmission.

Sex doesn't create the disease it is just a method of transmitting it. Just as some diseases can be transmitted via air, contact, exposures, etc.

hopefully that answers the question

[BertMacklinFBI]

you get an STI exactly how you stated above from another person who has STI. I don't really get what you're trying to ask unless you're wondering if STI can sporadically occur out of nothing.

[Asker]

That is my question. So if a virgin has sex with a virgin, both with no STD (STI)... the only STI possible to get is a baby?

[BertMacklinFBI]

diseases that are passed on genetically are usually not STI. if a virgin has sex with another virgin, they won't have an STI, they may have inherited a different disease though, like herpes for examples. but the mother will have transferred that during childbirth and it should have been taken care of long before.

[ZergRush]

Both people can still technically be virgins and have an STD. STDs can be transmitted by oral sex. Therefor... if you have a partner who is very oral-sexually active, but has had no vaginal intercourse, it is still possible for that person to have contracted an STD and transfer it to their new partner. Also, there are some diseases that a person may be born with if the mother transferred the disease to the baby during delivery. So that person would be a carrier for the disease even if he/she is a virgin. It's always possible to contract an STDs during intimacy.

[electromagnetic]

STDs don't just form out of the blue. They all have an original host. They're transmitted. Even if your both virgin you can catch herpes simplex virus from kissing someone who has an open sore. You can also catch viruses from public bathroom toilets. All of these things are none sexual.

[scrap422]

public bathrooms is what scares me

[electromagnetic]

You're not alone. I'm a girl. I avoid them at all costs.

[weegin]

It doesn't matter if you're a virgin or not. If you have both been tested for STDs and both of you tested negative, you will not get an STD. You can only get it if one of you has it.

[yaddayaddayadda02]

STD's do not spontaneously occur. They are viruses/bacteria/parasites. They are passed along, they do not spontaneously generate.

[SomeoneImportant]

Looks like someone won't be using a condom.

[yofuknutz]

Damn right

[Anonymous]

Somebody has to have a disease for you to pass it on you claim to be a virgin?

[Anonymous]

STD's are only transmitted if the person your exchanging body fluids with already has an STD

[Anonymous]

There are two questions here and I will separate them for you:

1. "How does a person first contract an STI?"

2. "How does a person pass on an STI?"

You are actually asking both, but focusing on the first, and the answer to that is that these particular illnesses are naturally occurring in humans. You sometimes just "get" chlamydia.

[Anonymous]

Too much of trunk dialing.

[yofuknutz]

"Trunk dialing"?