To accurately reflect our sources, this article uses terms like “male," “female,” "men," and "women" as the sources use them.

How transmissible is gonorrhea from women to men? There’s about a 1 in 5, or 20%, chance of an infected woman passing gonorrhea to a male partner if they did not use a condom during sex.

It causes about 1 million new infections a year, primarily in young men. Gonorrhea rates reached a historic low in the United States in 2009 and then steadily increased through 2021. Reported ...

In men, gonorrhea also can lead to infertility in rare cases. In the United States, gonorrhea and other sexually transmitted infections or STIs have become more common. Reported cases of three ...

Data show that most gonorrhea fits into broad patterns. In men there is urethral dis-charge and variable dysuria, but in women, one third will have no symptoms. In heterosexuals one third of ...