Hot Towel Transmission

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Let's say it's a worst case scenario. A massage parlor uses a dirty towel in the steamer and rubs it all over the next customer. Can a hot, steamed towel transmit enough of the HSV virus to infect the genitals of another customer?

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  • Posted

    Not at all .

    Genital herpes Type two is transmitted through sexual contact.

    Who said something like that ,?

    • Posted

      Yeah... I ask because I legitimately think I've contracted it this way. It was either this or through the hand job... Which I read was nearly impossible.

  • Posted

    You can have hsv trough skin to skin contact. But i read somewhere that virus stay for minutes like in a towel or something. Or if someone touches the area where the virus was then touch you right away then it could also be one way of getting it.
    • Posted

      Yeah... I ask because I legitimately think I've contracted it this way. It was either this or through the hand job... Which I read was nearly impossible.

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