Crabs - How easy are they to get - Sexually Transmitted Diseases Message Board

Tom3211 · 01-14-2006, 12:47 AM

How easy is it to get crabs from a source other than sexual contact? I've been intimate with 2 women in the last while, yet when I told each of them about the crabs, neither of them had any on them. As a precaution they both used the special shampoo I brought, but I'm wondering, outside of one of them lieing, how easy/hard it is to get crabs through non-sexual encouters? I've heard of catching them by sleeping in the same bed as someone who has them, but I was wondering if it could be as simple as brushing up against someone who has a bad infestation of them?

tommy124 · 01-16-2006, 10:07 AM

someone I know got them from going to a movie theater.
I have personally seen them jumping on a urinal once.

angel_of_faith · 01-20-2006, 03:23 PM

You can get them easily...even from usuing a public bathroom...even just laying in the same bed you could get them...they aren't a virus or a bacteria...they are an actual bug...but you can get rid of crabs...have you went and seen a doctor? Home remedies are never a good idea with anything.