Im a contemplating having sex with someone who has genital warts (or someone who has genital herpes). Assuming my partner is not in the middle of a herpes outbreak, what are the risks?
The risks are low, but both HPV (genital warts) and herpes are transmittable even without a visible outbreak. Some people carry and transmit the virus without any symptoms at all, although transmitting the virus is very much more likely during visible outbreaks. Using a condom can help protect you from any outbreak on his penis or her vagina or his/her anus, but if the HPV or herpes outbreak area is elsewhere in the genital region (for instance, the base of the penis or the outer vaginal lips), you are not protected. If you are a woman, you can augment your safe sex practices with the use of the female condom (the brand name is “Reality”), which covers more of your vulva region. You can use condoms on penises, and you can also use latex sheets as a dental dam (a barrier for oral-vaginal or oral-anal sex), or the use of plastic wrap (like Glad Wrap) as a dental dam. Using the latex sheets or plastic wrap can augment any condom use to cover more area from skin to skin contact, etc. The t
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