I’ve realised that there are only a handful of things in life that can get you happiness. Cheesy fries, a good weekend binge, sleeping on a hotel room mattress, season end sale and well of course - ***. In fact, if I were to rank any or all of these, it is but obvious that *** would rule the list.

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Now imagine, if something were to take away or mess the only few things in your life that bring you happiness. Like an unannounced STD that you didn’t even realise you contracted. 

Here are 4 unconventional ways you’re likely to contract an STD from and must be super wary of going forward.

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You may be sharing an old anecdote with a friend or work woes with a colleague, sharing a cigarette as you may be sharing that moment, without realising that the harmless act of bonding would actually make you prone to catching an STD. Turns out not all STDs are contracted during *** or exposure to private parts, but some even get spread through oral contact .

Which is why it is always advised to never share the same glass, lip balm or even cigarette with someone lest you want to risk getting infected.

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Yet another way of catching hold of a serious sexually transmitted disease is through use of towels (especially damp and moist) that have been used by someone else before. Sexually transmitted diseases are both viruses and bacteria and so they can survive in any environment that can help them thrive - like a wet towel that is warm and moist for them to linger on to after someone may have used it to clean themselves, in which case it would be left behind to infect someone new.

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You may be getting super late for an event or a party and there would be no time to rush down to the market to get a razor or simply visit a salon. And so, with much hesitation, you decide to borrow it from your roommate or your friend, because what’s the worst that could happen, right? Turns out, the worst is an STD like Hepatitis B which can easily be contracted through a used razor blade, which might already have blood left over it from a possibly infected person. 

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As much as we might endorse healthy masturbation, use of second hand ***-toys is a total no-no. Simply because you can never be too sure of whether it is entirely sterilized and safe to use or not, especially after it has been in the single place that is known to transmit STDs in the first place. And even if it hasn’t been used but was simply owned by a person, who’s to say it didn’t accumulate dust and germs over it while lying in someone’s drawer or a closet?

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