If you are dating someone that has HPV, how do you protect yourself? What are the dangers? • 03.15.10
Is it possible to be completely safe when you are dating someone with HPV?
Is it possible to be completely safe when you are dating someone with HPV?
I have the high risk version of HPV which causes cancer and not genital warts. Whoever gave it to me didn’t know he had it. I wouldn’t have discovered it but for the fact that several years ago a condom broke and then my boyfriend told me he had contracted genital warts. So I went to the doctor to get checked.
The test indicated I already had HPV, but I I didn’t get the low risk HPV (genital warts) because I created antibodies when I caught the high risk HPV, whenever that might have been. Should I tell everyone I might have sex with that I have it? It is highly contagious.
They don’t know that it does anything to men, but 5% of all women with HPV will get cervical cancer. Also 70% of all cervical cancer is caused by this strain of HPV.
My friends and doctors say I don’t have to say anything because it doesn’t affect the men I may give it to and that all adults who have had more than two sex partner probably contracted a form of HPV. I think that is uncool.
I have the high risk version of HPV which causes cancer and not genital warts. Whoever gave it to me didn’t know he had it. I wouldn’t have discovered it but for the fact that several years ago a condom broke and then my boyfriend told me he had contracted genital warts. So I went to the doctor to get checked.
The test indicated I already had HPV, but I I didn’t get the low risk HPV (genital warts) because I created antibodies when I caught the high risk HPV, whenever that might have been. Should I tell everyone I might have sex with that I have it? It is highly contagious.
They don’t know that it does anything to men, but 5% of all women with HPV will get cervical cancer. Also 70% of all cervical cancer is caused by this strain of HPV.
My friends and doctors say I don’t have to say anything because it doesn’t affect the men I may give it to and that all adults who have had more than two sex partner probably contracted a form of HPV. I think that is uncool.
I feel that I just met the perfect man for me but there is a problem, he told me that he has a wart on his organ (one) and appreciate him being honest with me. We have not had sex yet but we get a long great. He is going to the doctor this week but has not confirmed that he has HPV. What else could that be? He said the last time he had sex was a year ago. I want to have sex with him but afraid, by the way I’m a virgin and know that I am clean. What should I do?
Honestly, don’t have sex with him. I am sorry that that is the answer, but HPV is one of those that can get around a condom, so even safe sex sin’t really safe. If you can, get the vaccination, but keep in mind that there are many strains of the virus that causes warts and the vaccination doesn’t protect against all of them.
