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Can you get an std or sti from public bathrooms ?

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Highly unlikely: My invariable response to this question or similar ones is that it is a strange place in which to be having sex. Anything is 'possible', but likely is another issue.

Dr Fowler and another doctor agreed

Answered 5/11/2013

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