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A girl I am getting to know firmly believes that there are remains of your previous partners on you for up to seven years. Not referring to STD's, but physical remains of a partner. She said she read it in a high school health book. Another friend of mine confirmed she also learned this in high school health. I'm a nursing major and this sounds totally bogus to me, but I couldn't find anything on Google regarding this. I'm thinking once all fluids have gone away, and everything has been washed, and no pubic hairs are remaining, there isn't any trace at all of a past partner. She says it's up to seven years. What gives?

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Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.

Uh, no!

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Specializes in ER.

They can certainly infect you with things that last seven years, or longer. If what she said was literally true it would be much easier to prove rape cases.

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Specializes in Utilization Management.

That's probably the same health book that says swallowed gum stays in your GI tract for seven years. Maybe they were just trying to scare high school kids to keep them from having sex.

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Specializes in school nursing, ortho, trauma.

No - not true. If it were there would probably be a lot more solved cases involving sexual assault.

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No - not true. If it were there would probably be a lot more solved cases involving sexual assault.

Thanks guys. This is what I thought but I had nothing to refute it with.

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Specializes in Hospital Education Coordinator.

Well, I heard in high school that you cannot get pregnant the first time you were intimate. Isn't that true???

Sounds like your friend is a little confused. Or does not shower often.

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Specializes in Near Future: ED, Future Future: ACNP!.

I have a master's in forensic science and can give you a resounding NO WAY!

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Specializes in Peds/outpatient FP,derm,allergy/private duty.

Something related perhaps to DNA profiles successfully taken from ever more minute samples, as in "touch DNA"? Or maybe HPV, herpes simplex, and tertiary syphillus that do stay in the body? Don't know where the seven years part fits in, though. Weird.

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Specializes in LTC.

Sounds like a scare tactic for abstinence only education.

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Specializes in Dialysis.

I learned in school, either a nursing class or A&P, that it takes seven years for your skin cells to completely "turn over". That may be where the 7 years comes in, but don't see how the other part could be true. I mean, your surface skin cells are shedding constantly, right?

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I would crawl out of my skin if I truly thought that the remnants of other people stayed for seven years. There is no way this is true and I can't even think of what information got twisted into this.

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