
Ask D'Mine: Safe Sex with a Person with Diabetes?
Hey, All -- if you've got questions about life with diabetes, then you've come to the right place! That would be our weekly diabetes advice column, Ask D'Mine, hosted by veteran type 1 and diabetes author Wil Dubois.
Today, Wil is digging into a somewhat awkward question that people without diabetes sometimes ask about intimacy. The answer is pretty clear any way you look at it, but here's how Wil would respond in a style all his own...
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Ray, type 3 from Louisiana, asks: If you have oral sex with someone who has diabetes, can you get it also?
[email protected] D’Mine answers: Boy, am I ever glad you asked me instead of your potential partner in this sexcapade. Because had you asked her or him, I suspect that you’d be having sex by yourself tonight.
So here’s the deal: You cannot get diabetes from someone else. Period. Despite what you might have read about the “diabetes epidemic,” diabetes is not a contagious disease. You simply can’t catch diabetes. At all. It’s not possible. It doesn’t work that way. Diabetes is genetic. If you do get it, you were born with it. To be super clear about this:
You can’t get diabetes by breathing the same air we do.
You can’t get diabetes by shaking the hand of a person with diabetes.
You can’t get diabetes by sharing a fork with someone who has diabetes.
You can’t get diabetes by sitting on a toilet seat that someone with diabetes used.
You can’t get diabetes if one of us sneezes on you, although that would be rude.
You can’t get diabetes from a blood transfusio
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