I apologize for my ignorance, but my question is why is it not scientifically possible? 

Thank you so much for your help and I’m delighted to see that you guys are also referenced on the cdc.gov website

OMG their advice is absolutely ridiculous!   First of all, in order for there to be virus on the chair that you sat on, someone with a lesion in that exact location would have had to sit on it immediately prior to you sitting on it - the virus doesn't want to live on a chair!  Assuming that happened, you would have had to sit on the chair immediately afterward with your penis directly on the spot where someone right before you had an outbreak and sat on the chair.  Your buttocks and thighs are too thick for the virus to penetrate the skin, and as I sit on this chair in my house now, those are the parts of my body on the chair.  And if you consider that your penis could touch the chair, then you would have had to move it back and forth and back and forth to get the virus to penetrate you (the virus that almost certainly isn't there and if it is, it is dead).  

You don't need to apologize - you were given totally wacky advice from someone who should have known better.  

Let's try to have this be the end of your worries.  But I'm here if it isn't.

Terri

I’m assuming testing is not recommended right?

I remember speaking to the lady,  for 2-3 mins and her stepping out for another 2. 

Would that be enough time for the virus to die? Or lose the ability to infect?

 

Let’s say somebody did have an outbreak, would that outbreak have to be very recent, and then I have to sit immediately after, and rub my penis or testicles into the area of their out break inorder to have a chance? And would that chance even then would be slim right?

I’ve asked this before, Dr H said it’s okay to have sex with my gf, I assume your advice would be the same too?

Thank you so much. I got half a mind to call them and educate them lol

Terri

How does herpes work if you don’t mind me asking? Does the skin on skin contact have to penetrate a mucous membrane? If herpes lands on me will I get it too? How soon after leaving the body does it lose its power to infect?

Terri