New date is always a great excitement. However, there is always a question if this very kiss tonight will be fraught with anything unpleasant. This is something to think about before you come to the next step. The question is very appropriate when we talk about teenagers and if there is possible to get STD from kissing. Here is some information on the account.

Under the term STD sexually transmitted diseases are understood. As the name suggests, these are conditions that are passed in the process of the intercourse. Among the most frequent conditions are such ones as genital herpes, HIV, gonorrhea and chlamydia, as well as genital warts and syphilis and etc.

However, as it is understood from the name, these illnesses require a sexual intercourse to appear. Then the idea of getting STD from kissing seems improbable. And it is actually so and luckily in all the cases. Surely enough, there have been cases when you can get some kind of STD, provided that a person is ill and has developed some oral symptoms such as sores. It this case it is possible for another partner to get an infection and herpes is one such condition. You know that herpes can be oral as well as genital.

In case of HIV/AIDS, it is possible to get such STD from kissing only in one case – when you kiss a person who has got a wound in the mouth that is bleeding. HIV/AIDS is transmitted through blood and just kissing will not be fraught with any consequences. The same can be said about Hepatitis B and C.

However, we talked about kissing and if you ask if it is possible to get STD from kissing in genital area, this is a different story. The chances are much higher and it is much easier for the infection to get into the organism of a person in case of such kissing. Your chances of getting genital warts of the mouth as well as gonorrhea of the throat, herpes, scabies and even syphilis are pretty high; so be careful.

This is in short about getting STD from kissing. In spite of the fact that everyone decides on his own whom to kiss, it is better to be a little bit more careful next time you choose to kiss a stranger. This can save you a lot of unpleasant moments.