Q: Can any sexually transmitted diseases–especially Herpes–be transmitted in female ejaculate??
A:Herpes exists at the skin level, in the skin and nerve cells at the surface. The risk when there is no sore is close to zero. When Herpes goes active and creates a sore is the time of most contagiousness. There is also a phase of Herpes called Asymptomatic Shedding where virus cells come out in smaller numbers to the surface of the skin, without making a sore.
So what does this mean for female ejaculate? There is no Herpes virus in the fluid before it comes out. The only way Herpes virus cells would get into the fluid is if it flowed over a sore or picked up some virus from the surface of the skin on its way out. So if the woman has no visible sore then the chance of transmission is low. If you know for a fact she doesn’t have Herpes then the chance is zero.
As for other STDs it’s hard to say. There haven’t been a lot of studies done on the risk of female ejaculate as a carrier. It would be safe to say that if the woman has Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, or Syphilis then getting her fluids onto another person’s genitals, mouth, or throat would be risky. HIV transmission from female fluids is super low, unless she is bleeding in her urine or menstruating AND is also HIV positive.
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