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by pcthrowaway
455 days ago
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And you can get HPV from shaking hands, and you can get HIV from sharing needles or a bad blood donation, and you can get Gonorrhea and (more rarely) Syphilis from kissing also. But these are all transmitted both sexually and non-sexually. HSV-1 and HSV-2 are only very subtly different, and both occur genitally (in Canadian provinces which studied this, more than 50% of genital HSV was attributed to HSV-1 [1]) Wikipedia considers it an STI[2], and I think the much more relevant consideration is whether it can be transmitted through sexual contact (genital-genital or oral-genital). Do you have any reason to believe a cold is transmitted through sexual contact (genital-genital or oral-genital) rather than just from kissing? [1]: https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/infectious-d... [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexually_transmitted_infection |
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