Gonorrhea is almost always passed through sex. This includes vaginal, anal, and oral sex. Ejaculation is not needed for the disease to be passed or caught. Babies can get gonorrhea in their eyes at birth if their mother has the disease. The head of the penis may swell in rare cases.
Many females have no symptoms.
An infection of the cervix may cause a discharge like a man's. The discharge is not often noticed since it gets mixed with the normal wetness of a woman's vagina. Gonorrhea in the throat may cause a dry, sore, scratchy feeling. Both males and females can go without symptoms no matter where they are infected. As long as a person has Gonorrhea they can pass the disease on to another person.