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A member asked:
What infections can i possibly get if my phone touched my bare genitals? please answer for if i were to clean my phone before hand and were not to clean my phone beforehand?
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Your genital skin is more sensitive than your regular skin surface but necessarily prone to infection from the cited event. If you dunked the phone in a cesspool it might be a problem but the contact is more or less equal to your touching your genitals with your fingers. Yes clean hands/phone are less a problem, but I wouldn't overthink this.
Answered 5/21/2023
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