text: is it possible to get genital warts from other sources other than a parter during sex? i recently discovered some lumps er.. down below that i'm taking, from what they look like, to be warts, but i was wondering if its possible to get these from anywhere else... if i understand your question correctly, you are asking if you can get hpv in any way besides having sex/sexual contact with another person.  the quick answer is no.  the hpv virus typically only lives in genital areas (altough there are rare cases where it is present in other mucosal tissue such as the mouth, but that's extremely rare).  the virus could theoretically survive for a small amount of time on an inanimate object (such as a toilet seat) but again, in order to get hpv this way would have to require some pretty controlled situations.  for example, someone with hpv would probably have to consciously rub their gential warts against the toilet seat, afterwhich you would need to contact that same area with your own genitalia almost immediately.  what are the chances of that?  i also wanted to address mutual m*sterbation. you can get hpv from mutual mast. hpv warts can be microscopic, invisible to the naked eye. if you touch your partner's genitals and then touch your own with the same hand, you have most likely just put the hpv virus on your own skin. whether or not you will develop warts/lesions is unpredictable. some people have hpv but never show any lesions.