ever caught anything at a MP?

[LMF_Eddie]

Tonto:

I am not disputing the intention of your post, that we need to take care and to play safe, and you yourself, do certainly take extraordinary precautions, which is fine, but I feel I must raise these questions in an attempt to understand the cause of your chronic prostrate problem. From the sparse information you present I feel that there is a need for more information so that the many fans of MP's do not become paranoid about such an infection from a massage.

When you state that the burning occurred "right after my massage" did you mean that it began immediately, or within:
- a few hours?
- a few days?
- a few weeks?

Prostatitis is generally caused by a bacterial infection which takes a considerable period of time to develop. First, the bacteria must travel the length of the urethra, then penetrate the prostate gland and then, to cause a chronic inflammation of the prostate it must develop there for some period of time inside the capsule of the prostrate, where it can survive in relative security, and where it can be rather difficult to treat with antibiotics, hence often there are recurrences and so the term, chronic is used.

Normally, there is very little opportunity for any bacteria to enter the urethra from the handling of the penis during massage (unless of course, such massage was orally assisted)! Could you enlighten us to what type of infection caused the prostatitis e.g. was it an STD (like gonorrhea, chlamydia etc.) or some other organism such as the now infamous E.coli which happens to be the most common cause of chronic prostatitis.

Are you certain that this infection occured only as a result of the massage release, and that in the several weeks or even months before your massage there was no other unprotected sexual contact with any other provider, whether spouse, or friend, or professional? Could there be any other way that this infection could have occurred?

It is not very likely that a massage could have been the cause of your problem, rather it was more likely to have been the result of a previous sexual encounter.

Because prostatitis takes a significant period of time to develop, it is my feeling that the infection had to have been present for some time prior to the massage, and that it just surfaced coincidentally, shortly after the massage.