GENITAL WARTS
Small warts, which may be in a single cluster, but more usually are in multiple clusters covering large areas of skin around the genitals, are not uncommon. Women seem to be more affected than men, but as the disease is sexually transmitted, both sexes are affected.
The warts develop when a virus enters the skin through an invisible abrasion, which occurs during the movements of sexual intercourse. Once within the skin (or in the thinner mucous membrane of a woman’s vagina), the virus lies dormant and only starts multiplying after two or three months. When it does, warts form.
They are more common in people between the ages of 18 and 25. In men they are found on the foreskin, or, in circumcised men, on the skin edge just beneath the glans of the penis. But they can grow in other moist areas, and are around the anus in people who enjoy anal intercourse.
Apart from looking unsightly and, occasionally, being itchy, they do not cause much discomfort and they can be cured using a special ointment (containing podophyllin) or by burning them with a small needle cautery.
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