Unlike other warts, these may be sensitive to pressure and may make walking uncomfortable. Plane warts are small, smooth warts on the face, usually in children. Senile warts are those that appear on older people, and soft warts may appear on the eyelids, ears, and necks of people who work with the class of chemical compounds called hydrocarbons. Venereal warts, also called genital warts, can appear on a man's penis , in a woman's vagina , and in the anus. Common warts usually are only somewhat contagious, often through contact with skin shed from the wart.
Warts are more likely to spread to other places on the same individual rather than to someone else.
The exception is genital warts, which are highly contagious and are spread through sexual contact. Babies may contract the warts from their mothers during birth. Warts can sometimes be frustratingly difficult to get rid of, but surprisingly over half of them disappear spontaneously within about two years. Unfortunately, treated warts sometimes reappear just as spontaneously. Venereal warts are the exception.