Silda Spitzer would be “prudent” to get tested for sexually transmitted diseases – including HIV – given her sex-obsessed husband’s alleged preference for unprotected sex with hookers, a specialist said last night.
The Post has learned the governor – revealed as a customer of a high-end hooker linked to a New Jersey-based prostitution ring – had wanted oral sex without a condom with the high-priced prostitute named “Kristen.”
Condoms protect against sexually transmitted infections and HIV.
The New York doctor, who asked not to be identified, explained that a partner of someone involved in risky sex would be possibly exposed to trichomonas vaginalis, syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia – all treatable with antibiotics.
Also, genital herpes and warts are a possibility – and treatable – as is HIV/ AIDS, which is treated with anti-viral medicine.
The doctor noted there is an incubation period for STDs, so testing might not necessarily have to be immediate.
The incubation period for gonorrhea is three to 10 days, for chlamydia, a week to two weeks, for HIV, two to eight weeks, for syphilis, 10 to 90 days, and for trichomonas vaginalis, four days to three weeks.
Ironically, Spitzer has been all about safe sex in his public life.
He was a strong advocate for the use of condoms as part of New York’s safe-sex education program – and even appeared with “Sex in the City” star Cynthia Nixon at a Family Planning Advocates conference a year ago.
The state under Spitzer rejected $3.7 million in federal money for abstinence-only sex education to teach youngsters about safe sex – and canceled all of its abstinence-only contracts – saying the policy was based on ideology rather than on sound scientific evidence.