XX CAN PROSTATITIS BE SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED?
If you ask a doctor you will probably be told that it cannot. Perhaps this is because women have no prostate so technically speaking this is true. However, if the prostatitis is bacterial or fungal in origin then it is quite likely that the pathogen, whatever it may be, can be passed back and forth between partners. There have been many postings to the effect that “my spouse had this disease and then I got prostatitis” or the reverse “I have prostatitis and every time I visit my girl friend she comes down with a UTI or yeast infection.” While these episodes do not prove that it can be transmitted sexually it seems strange that the most doctors feel so strongly that it can not. Some doctors, however, do say that the prostatitis pathogens can be passed back and forth between couples. Dr. A. E. Feliciano is a strong advocate of this theory and for that reason prefers to treat both partners at the same time. Backing up his theory is a recent study which claimed that 30% of all American wom
