
Male rectal gonorrhea cases, San Francisco, 1984 – 2014 You might not have any symptoms

You can get or give gonorrhea through mutual masturbation. The infection can even spread from your penis to your butt because they are so close to each other. You can get a rectal gonorrhea infection even if you don’t bottom. I’ve seen people who say, “I’m a top! How did I get gonorrhea in my butt?” Maybe their partner put their fingers in their butt, or they shared a sex toy. If you have gonorrhea in your penis and you touch your penis and then finger your partner’s butt, you can give your partner gonorrhea in in their butt, for instance. That means you can transmit gonorrhea even if there’s no semen or blood exchanged during sex. Gonorrhea is spread by coming into contact with an infected body part.

gonorrhoeae, which can infect the mucous surfaces of the urethra (in the penis), rectum (butt), cervix (connection between the vagina and uterus), and throat. A gonorrhea infection is caused by the bacteria N. But they’re not 100%, and that’s because of how gonorrhea is spread. Gonorrhea is spread through touch-not semen or bloodĬondoms do a good job of helping to prevent gonorrhea transmission. What should gay men, specifically, know? BETA turned to Pierre-Cédric Crouch, PhD, ANP, the nursing director at Strut, to fill us in.

(Although increases in the number of cases may also be a result of more widespread testing, according to the 2014 San Francisco Department of Public Health Annual STD Report Summary.) Pierre-Cédric Crouch, PhD, ANP-BCĪnyone having sex is at risk of getting this pesky infection. In 2014, there were 2,903 cases of gonorrhea among men compared to 1,657 in 2010-with gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men experiencing a disproportionately higher infection rate.

Although not reaching levels anywhere near to those seen in the 1970s and 1980s, the number of diagnosed gonorrhea cases in San Francisco has gone up in recent years.
