HPV condoms and more?

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so I've heard condoms are only slightly effective, because it can transfer skin-to-skin. I thought that HPVs that could xfer to skin were not the ones that affected the genital area? Even so, if you used a condom but were careful to no insert any part that wasn't covered, would this decrease the risk? What about the scrotum? Can that skin get the infection? If it was to, let's say, 'slap' against the girl?

One more:
If the girl had 'high-risk HPV,' in which she could literally see the legions(not sure on my terminology), but those went away (she cannot see them anymore), does that mean, for the most part, that her body is fighting it off and/or it is gone?

Jackie M · Answer

HPV is only inside the vagina area or penis and no other part of the skin, condoms are not 100% save but I would guess that no one that used a condom has got HPV - HPV is more common if you have several sexual partners so stop stressing, Good Luck

hairyguyuk2002 · Answer

If you are gay or straight for that matter, and partners don't like using condoms cos they claim they loose an erection after putting one on their penis, you can tale contraception into your own hands by using the female condoned (trade name femidom) it's intended for females to insert into their vagina prior to sex it's like a baggy male condom but made of latex so types of lube won't affect it, however gay male couples have found it works in anal sex ok.

tarnishedsilverheart · Answer

Genital HPV infection can be found on all genital areas sometimes even to area where the upper thigh area meets the genital area.

The virus sheds particles.  The particles can enter any genital area.  Condoms do not cover the top of the penis, the penis does make contact with the vulva.  Micro-abrasion (friction of sex creates) can contain the shredded virus particles.   The slapping of the scrotum could against the upper vaginal area could allow enter points for the virus.

When visual signs of the virus are no longer their the virus could be in a latent phase, however the virus can move from a latent state to expressed.  There is no cure for the virus.  We may be less contagious when there is no visible signs but there is no guarantee's.

Most high risk HPV types do not show visible signs however some do. We also can have multiple HPV types.  More sex partners do present more exposure to the virus.  The virus is very common most men and women will acquire the virus at some point.  It is unknown how long we are contagious after acquiring the virus.

In most the virus does regress in a year or two.  When the virus is in regression or its latent state it is probably less contagious however it is known that the virus can move from latent to express.  Most HPV infections do not progress to cancer.

http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/219110-overview#aw2aab6b2b3
http://www.sciencephoto.com/media/248887/enlarge
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3632362/
Anyone who is sexually active can get HPV, even if you have had sex with only one person. You also can develop symptoms years after you have sex with someone who is infected making it hard to know when you first became infected.
http://www.cdc.gov/std/HPV/STDFact-HPV.htm#a7
Longitudinal studies in both men and women show that the concurrent or sequential detection of more than one HPV type is common, and that this occurs more frequently than would be expected by chance.
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/553264_5

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