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According to VeryWellHealth, passing out urine after having intercourse can potentially lower the risk of a urinary tract infection, especially in women, it would serve to reason that it might also assist in preventing sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
To date, there is no such proof that this is factual. This is because the route of infection for most STIs differs dramatically from that of a urinary tract infection.
With a urinary tract infection, the bacteria will normally move up the urethra to create an infection in the bladder. With an STI, most bacteria enter the body via porous mucosal tissues that line the female genital tract and male urethra. Certain STIs can even penetrate intact skin because they are so small.
For instance, E. coli (one of the bacteria most commonly related to UTIs) is between 1.0 and 3.0 micrometres in size. By contrast, bacterial STIs such as gonorrhoea and chlamydia are between 50 per cent and 70 per cent smaller, while viral STIs such as HIV and human papillomavirus (HPV) are greatly smaller than any of these.
Because of this, passing out urine after intercourse offers little to no benefit in the prevention of STIs in either women or men.
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