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Could you get stds just from kissing?

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Dr. Ralph Morgan Lewis answered

Specializes in Family Medicine

Yes! Several STDs: Can be transmitted that way: herpes, syphilis (if chancre on lip/mouth), gonorrhea (if after oral sex), hpv (after oral sex). If there are no std lesions/bacteria/viruses on lips or in mouth, then simple kissing can't transmit them.

Dr Schleimer agreed

Answered 3/20/2016

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