So we are always taught that STDs come from sexual contact with a person that has been infected.
But how does the infected person get infected in the first place?
There has to be a primary way where someone get infected (not through sex) and then transmits that to others through sex right?
I would imagine that bec we do have treatments for STDs they would go extinct if the only way of getting and STD was through sex. But that isn’t the case.
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They might get extinct if everybody actually got tested before having unprotected sex, and got treated for the STD if they had one. A lot of people get tested and refuses to have sex without condoms, but sometimes accidents happen, a condom rips or something, or someone lies about being tested, if they didn’t wear protection after starting treatment etc. kind of like Covid, if the whole world had bunkered down inside, not leaving at all, it would have probably gone extinct now. It’s still there because people don’t take the necessary precautions or because they can’t. In a lot of countries you can’t really get tested and condoms are hard to get. So STD’s will keep on existing.
Stay safe, use condoms, and get checked regularly. If you have a partner, get tested before you skip the condom, wait to get tested until at least 3 weeks have passed (incubation time) since you had unprotected sex the last time. Get checked once a year maybe.
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