i haven't met any straight couples with steady partners that have given there partner hep-c ,i talked with alot of people with hep-c and no one gave it to their partner ,i was married 11 years to a nurse she never got it . and no other girls ever got it from me either with unprotected sex [not knowing i had it] ,this baffled me at first and thought theres something wrong here when you read its sexualy transmitted , on janis and freinds a 10 year study with 700 people they have with zero real possitive proof they say 3% but i've never experienced it or heard of it 1st 2nd or 3rd hand talking with lots of heppers that knew heppers that new heppers .some doctors and articles are starting to say/state it is extreeming unlikely to get thru sex [but still possible with no proof ] altho if your homosexual with aids you got a 40% chance of having it % wise what i read .so stay away from the butt hole and people that are sick . if someone/both has another venarial disease its more prossible ,just like gum disease [tooth brush] but it takes 2 with cuts /wounds for virus to get out and go in and infect . doctors first just assumed just cause its a virus they ''assumed''t was transmitted sexually with no proof what so ever . i think its a big scare tactic to get you to do the $30000-$40000 ripoff interferon that only clears geno 1 only 25% of the time and it can mess you up and can kill you [research done by a research nurse. there covering up the real cures . one is nm283 , blood washing and a fw others ''but if they come out with any new hopeful drug notice it always gets added to interferon because they have the power $$$ to pay off and have the fda in there poctets deep so they get them to find anything [makeup wrong] to kick them out if its going to interfer with their profits of the interferon industy . its a choice and i always telll people if your going to do it get your liver and yourself in good shape with vitamins and herbs first then do it,keep vldl chlesterol and iron levels as low as healthy possible