Actually, I've been looking at pictures of sebaceous cysts, and he may well have had those, although I'm not sure.

I just need as much information and advice as possible.

Please help me.

The above reply was from me - I didn't realise I was logged out.

Molluscum contagiosum (MC) is a viral infection of the skin or occasionally of the mucous membranes. MC has no animal reservoir, infecting only humans, as did smallpox. However, there are different pox viruses that infect many other mammals. The infecting human MC virus is a DNA poxvirus called the molluscum contagiosum virus (MCV). There are four types of MCV, MCV-1 to -4; MCV-1 is the most prevalent and MCV-2 seen usually in adults and often sexually transmitted. About one in six young people are infected at some time with MC. The infection is most common in children aged one to ten years old. MC can affect any area of the skin but is most common on the body, arms, and legs. It is spread through direct contact or shared items such as clothing or towels.

In adults, molluscum infections are often sexually transmitted and usually affect the genitals, lower abdomen, buttocks, and inner thighs. In rare cases, infections are also found on the lips, mouth, and eyelids.

The time from infection to the appearance of lesions ranges from 2 weeks to 6 months, with an average incubation period of 6 weeks. Diagnosis is made on the clinical appearance; the virus cannot routinely be cultured.

Symptoms
Molluscum contagiosum lesions are flesh-colored, dome-shaped, and pearly in appearance. They are often 1–5 millimeters in diameter, with a dimpled center. They are generally not painful, but they may itch or become irritated. Picking or scratching the bumps may lead to further infection or scarring. In about 10% of the cases, eczema develops around the lesions. They may occasionally be complicated by secondary bacterial infections. In some cases the dimpled section may bleed once or twice.

The central waxy core contains the virus. In a process called autoinoculation, the virus may spread to neighboring skin areas. Children are particularly susceptible to auto-inoculation, and may have widespread clusters of lesions.


Treatments
Individual molluscum lesions may go away on their own and are reported as lasting generally from 6 to 8 weeks to 2 or 3 months. However via autoinoculation, the disease may propagate and so an outbreak generally lasts longer with mean durations variously reported as 8 months, to about 18 months, and with a range of durations from 6 months to 5 years.

Treatment is often unnecessary depending on the location and number of lesions, and no single approach has been convincingly shown to be effective. Nonetheless, treatment may be sought after for the following reasons:


Medical issues including:
Bleeding
Secondary infections
Itching and discomfort
Potential scarring
Chronic keratoconjunctivitis
Social reasons
Cosmetic
Embarrassment
Fear of transmission to others
Social exclusion
Many health professionals recommend treating bumps located in the genital area to prevent them from spreading. The virus lives only in the skin and once the growths are gone, the virus is gone and cannot be spread to others. Molluscum contagiosum is not like herpes viruses, which can remain dormant in the body for long periods and then reappear. Thus, when treatment has resulted in elimination of all bumps, the infection has been effectively cured and will not reappear unless the patient is reinfected. In practice, it may not be easy to see all of the molluscum contagiosum bumps. Even though they appear to be gone, there may be some that were overlooked. If this is the case, one may develop new bumps by autoinoculation, despite their apparent absence.

In other words, yes it is an STI (the adult type is, not the child type), it is not harmful though, not deadly and won't last a lifetime. Once all the leisions are gone, they will not come back UNLESS you are reinfected.
My son had the childhood molluscum. It is harmless, they did not bug him, and we used retinol to clear them. It took about a year to clear his leisions, but he has eczema as well, so every time he itched, a new pathway for the virus was opened.

Another thing to note is that some men have whitish pearly growths on their shaft which are benign. These are called pearly papules and are insignificant.

If you do contract Molluscum, do not panic. It is very treatable, many methods are used to treat it. Leisions on the face are rare but can happen. But they are treated in the same way as lesions anywhere else. These leisions may be itchy, try hard not to scratch at them because if you open the skin around the leisions, they can actually spread in a linear fashion like this:
genital molluscum look like this...I have edited as much of the private area as possible:

The picture of genital molluscum you posted looks much moe severe than what I saw - is it likely that I am wrong, or is the picture you posted of a more severe case?

Do you have any pictures of sebaceous cysts in the genital area?

Thanks

Yes, that man did have a particularly large outbreak...here is an image with only two molluscum present for reference:
I have also sent you a private message regarding penile sebaceous cysts as the images linked are not suitable for younger people.

I recently got this infection and the Doctor at the sexual health clinic said that is nearly impossible/quite uncommon (can't remember exact words) for genital to mouth/face transmission or genital to finger/hand transmission to happen (she had never seen it in all her years there), since the virus thrives in the genital areas, it doesn't "like" other areas of the body. I was worried about a recent partner contracting it on his face but she said most likely he is absolutely fine.

Also anyone that has it, USE BANDAGES they will help with preventing spreading! I only have 2 (maybe 3, can't tell) bumbs, went the first day I saw them and have had waterproof bandages on ever since she put liquid nitrogen on it. Almost gone but will likely have to go back for one more treatment. Swear they havent spread b/c of going QUICKLY for treatment and using bandages!

Good luck and dont panic!

I realise this is a stressful time for you but what do you want us to tell you? You have some kind of white bumps in your genital region that you believe you caught from a partner who wasn't even able to tell you what he had. Yes you may have Mulloscum Contagiosum or you could have a developmental stage of a venarial disease or a severe reaction to a rash or a flesh eating virus or a microdermal abrasion. There's a slim chance someone answering here has the medical knowledge to offer an accurate diagnosis but none of us can give you more than speculation from a description. I cannot emphasise enough how critical it is that you go see a doctor about this. You could have a condition with health imacting outcomes that will worsen if not treated.