Okay, so the other day, I was hanging out with some friends, and we got into this weird discussion about, like, the craziest ways you could get an STD. Seriously, it went from zero to sixty real quick. And someone, I won’t name names, brought up kissing. Like, can you actually get gonorrhea from just kissing someone?
I was like, “Whoa, hold up. I thought that was… you know… down there stuff.” But it got me thinking, and I figured, “Hey, I’m already on the internet 24/7, might as well look this up and be sure, once and for all”.
My Deep Dive into Kissing and Gonorrhea
So, first, I hit up the usual suspects. I mean, those general health websites. It felt a little awkward, typing in “gonorrhea” and “kissing” into the search bar. My search history is officially questionable now. But, hey, it’s all in the name of knowledge, right?
The initial results were pretty… vague. Lots of stuff about how gonorrhea is usually transmitted, which, yeah, we all know. But I wanted the specifics on kissing. So I started digging deeper.
I started looking at some of the more official-sounding sites. I tried to see what they were saying. Their explanations were… complicated. Lots of big words I didn’t totally understand. I had to re-read some paragraphs like three times.
What I think I figured out is this: It’s technically, technically possible to transmit gonorrhea through deep kissing, like, if someone has a gonorrhea infection in their throat. But it seems super unlikely. Like, winning-the-lottery unlikely.
I even went to this website and they had lots of information about it. I found they were very thorough. But, it was information overload! It took forever to scroll through and find anything specific about kissing. And it had a lot of stuff, I wasn’t about to risk clicking any of that.
The Verdict (As Far as I Can Tell)
So, after spending way too long on this, here’s my totally non-medical-professional conclusion: Can you get gonorrhea from kissing? Probably not. I mean, I guess there’s a chance, but it seems so incredibly small that it’s not something I’m gonna lose sleep over. It definitely calmed my friends down, though! We all had a good laugh about how paranoid we were being.
From now on, I think I’ll stick to less stressful internet searches. Maybe cute animal videos or something. My search history could use a break.
