Sexual Transmission of Disease
Sexual transmission of disease means that a disease is usually spread from one person to another because of a sex act. There are STDs that can be spread without having sex at all, for example from a towel or wet surface, but that isn’t common. In order for an STD to enter your body and set up in infection from you just touching a towel or toilet seat, you’d have to get quite a bit of the discharge on your genitals. (And how many times do you wipe your genitals with someone else’s wet towel?) Also, some diseases can be spread through non-sexual contact like blood transfusions or in childbirth. But because blood in the US goes through a screening process before it is distributed for use, the chance of getting HIV, for instance is about 1 per 1 million units of blood given. STDs can be spread from man-to-woman, woman-to-man, man-to-man, woman-to –woman or sex toy-to-man/woman-man/woman.
