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Can you transfer a std by washing your cloths towels etx with other people cloths etc? and can you by wearing there cloths ?
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No : they are called sexually transmitted disease is because you have to have sex to get them.
Answered 9/29/2016
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Not likely: You should not get a sexually transmitted infection by washing or wearing the clothes of someone with a STI. In order to get an STI some of the person's bodily fluid must get into your vagina or other mucous membrane to cause an infection.
Answered 10/22/2014
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