[Question #13315] Kissing

13 days ago

Hi doctors

I had kissing with girl , it was not deep kissing just out of our lips but i feel some saliva on my lip from her mouth

And my mouth had cracks due to drought and , I licked My lip . Is any worried about HBV ?

Sorry for my bad language if you understand me, tell me

Thank you, doctor

H. Hunter Handsfield, MD

13 days ago

This is the fourth time (including one deleted question) over two years that you have asked about STI risks from events that everybody knows are zero risk. No STI can be transmitted by closed-mouth kissing, regardless of contact with saliva. Here is no risk for hepatitis B virus or any other STI. This also is the second time you have asked about HBV. If you have been vaccinated for HBV (which is normal for all people in most countries), you are immune to it even with high risk exposures like unprotected sex or shared needles. If you have not been vaccinated, you could do that now and then stop worrying about it.

Repeated questions on the same topic are not permitted. And all your questions have concerned zero risk events in regard to all STIs. If and when you have exposures that actually are risky -- like vaginal, anal, or oral sex -- feel free to ask us about them. However, this must be your last about such exposures as kissing, hand-genital contact, massage, etc. My guess is that you live in a socially and religiously conservative society and suffer from lack of accurate education about STI risks. However, even in such places, accurate information is available especially through professional online resources. Please educate yourself properly about actual risks for STI.

HHH, MD

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13 days ago

My concern was the dryness and cracks on my lips and the girl's saliva

Sorry doctor

13 days ago

My guess is that you live in a socially and religiously conservative society and suffer from lack of accurate education about STI risks

That’s right, doctor

H. Hunter Handsfield, MD

13 days ago

I was aware of the dryness and cracks, and saliva exposure. These make no difference: still no risk for any STI.

Thanks for confirming your living situation. Still, if you have online access to this forum, it seems you could easily access many online sources of accurate information about STI transmission and risks. Some suggestions are this forum's sponsor, the American Sexual Health Association (https://www.ashasexualhealth.org/stds_a_to_z/), the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (https://www.cdc.gov/sti/), and the World Health Organization (https://www.who.int/health-topics/sexually-transmitted-infections/). WHO probably also has data about STIs in your country.

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13 days ago

Thank you .

I appreciate your understanding and patience with me

13 days ago

I have last question

Yhere there is difference between deep kissing and regular kissing ?

On STI

Just to be knowledge for me

H. Hunter Handsfield, MD

13 days ago

Even deep kissing rarely transmits STIs. Syphilis is possible but rare. There is controversy about gonorrhea transmission by deep kissing, but that appears to occur mostly men kissing other men and very rare (if it occurs at all) between males and females.

You will never have any STI until and unless you have intercourse (vaginal, anal or oral sex) with an infected partner.

That completes the two follow-up comments and replies included with each question and so ends this thread. I hope the discussion has been helpful.

As you were informed in a previous question, the forum does not permit repeated questions on the same topic or exposure. All four threads reveal your inflated anxieties about STI/HIV risks in general and concern for sexual exposures that everyone knows have no risk. This one will your last one; future questions about exposures without intercourse will receive no reply and the posting fee will not be refunded. This policy is based on compassion, not criticism, and is intended to reduce temptations to keep paying for questions with obvious answers. In addition, experience shows that continued answers tend to prolong users' anxieties rather than reducing them. Finally, such questions have little educational value for other users, one of the forum's main purposes. Thank you for your understanding. Best wishes and stay safe.

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