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In a panic, need advice
« on: August 19, 2013, 09:16:17 pm »
Hi all,

So yesterday/last night I met up with a bisexual guy that I had been chatting with for a while. I went over to his apartment and we both ended up jerking off together. I was in the heat of the moment and leaned over a few times and performed unprotected oral on him for like 30-45 seconds...I got a considerable amount of precum in my mouth. I immediately drank some beer to wash it down. He didn't ejaculate in my mouth at all, it was just the precum that was in my mouth....

I'm now in a panic that I exposed myself to HIV. The guy said he was totally 100% clean, and that I need to relax...but 1 and 5 people have HIV and don't know it, and also people lie. On the CDC website it says that HIV can be spread through unprotected oral sex. Everywhere I read I see conflicting information. Some sites say there is a 0-.04% chance, and I saw a YouTube video that said its very risk. Should I get tested? Should I be worried? Can someone help?

I apologize in advance if this has been discussed already, but I'm in super high panic mode.

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Re: In a panic, need advice
« Reply #1 on: August 19, 2013, 09:26:12 pm »
There have been no fewer than three separate serodiscordant couples studies (where one person is HIV positive, the other negative.) These couples were tracked for three. five and ten years. The couples used condoms for penetrative vaginal and anal sex, but NO BARRIER at all for oral sex. Any kind of oral sex.

These studies yielded NO infections.

You are not going to test positive from giving a blowjob , your saliva has propertys that damage HIV and render it unable to infect .

ALTHOUGH YOU DO NOT NEED HIV TESTING AT THIS TIME for this incident , anyone who is sexually active should be having a full sexual health care check-up, including but not limited to hiv testing, at least once a year and more often if unprotected intercourse occurs.

If you aren't already having regular, routine check-ups, now is the time to start. As long as you make sure condoms are being used for intercourse, you can fully expect your routine hiv tests to return with negative results.

Don't forget to always get checked for all the other sexually transmitted infections as well, because they are MUCH easier to transmit than hiv. Some of the other STIs can be present with no obvious symptoms, so the only way to know for sure is to test.

Use condoms for anal or vaginal intercourse, correctly and consistently, and you will avoid hiv infection. It really is that simple!
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Re: In a panic, need advice
« Reply #2 on: August 19, 2013, 09:31:54 pm »
Thanks for the detailed reply, its greatly appreciated. I feel so much better.

If what you're saying about oral sex is true, then why is it on the CDC website as a risk, while kissing isn't? I know kissing has been proven not to pass the virus.... So why is unprotected oral sex listed as a risk everywhere?

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« Reply #3 on: August 19, 2013, 09:49:56 pm »
Thanks for the detailed reply, its greatly appreciated. I feel so much better.

If what you're saying about oral sex is true, then why is it on the CDC website as a risk, while kissing isn't? I know kissing has been proven not to pass the virus.... So why is unprotected oral sex listed as a risk everywhere?

I don't know why the cdc hasn't updated their website . We use the latest peer reviewed information and up to date science for our assessments .

There have only been a scant few reports of oral transmission and most of them have proven to have other risk factors involved when closely examined .

The study I quoted is powerful evidence that oral transmission rarely if ever happens , you would have to have meth mouth and large open wounds and blow a guy with a sky high viral load . Oral transmission is nothing more than a theoretical risk , one you didn't have . 
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« Reply #4 on: August 19, 2013, 10:15:32 pm »
Moreover, the CDC still classifies deep-kissing as a potential risk, despite all information to the contrary.

Sadly, you must remember that the CDC is a government agency, and the wheels of change turn very slowly there, when they turn at all.

"Many people, especially in the gay community, turn to oral sex as a safer alternative in the age of AIDS. And with HIV rates rising, people need to remember that oral sex is safer sex. It's a reasonable alternative."

-Kimberly Page-Shafer, PhD, MPH

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Re: In a panic, need advice
« Reply #5 on: February 07, 2014, 10:22:37 pm »
Hi all, I didn't want to start a new topic as I simply have a question about oral sex and HIV. I've been reading through the forums and you guys are confidently saying that HIV isn't transmittable through oral sex.

My question is this:

Its been backed by science that HIV is not transmittable from kissing, and on all of the health websites they mention that you can't catch HIV from kissing. So, if you can't catch HIV from oral sex, how come on all the health websites (including the CDC) it still mentions that you can catch HIV from unprotected oral sex? On all the sites and an HIV/AIDS researcher I spoke with said oral sex is less riskier, but there is still SOME risk. So if there is SOME risk, then that means you can catch it from oral sex. Am i right? How come kissing isn't mentioned, but oral sex is? Can you explain this discrepancy?

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« Reply #6 on: February 07, 2014, 10:48:02 pm »
Please do not post outside of this thread again no matter how long its been between visits or the subject matter . You can go to your profile and select show own post and it will take you here .

Also ... you will not get a different answer than was given here in your original thread by posting the same question in another thread , seriously .

Here is a few highlights from the last time you ask us the same thing .

Moreover, the CDC still classifies deep-kissing as a potential risk, despite all information to the contrary.

Sadly, you must remember that the CDC is a government agency, and the wheels of change turn very slowly there, when they turn at all.

There have been no fewer than three separate serodiscordant couples studies (where one person is HIV positive, the other negative.) These couples were tracked for three. five and ten years. The couples used condoms for penetrative vaginal and anal sex, but NO BARRIER at all for oral sex. Any kind of oral sex.

These studies yielded NO infections.

You are not going to test positive from giving a blowjob , your saliva has property's that damage HIV and render it unable to infect .

I don't know why the cdc hasn't updated their website . We use the latest peer reviewed information and up to date science for our assessments .

There have only been a scant few reports of oral transmission and most of them have proven to have other risk factors involved when closely examined .

The study I quoted is powerful evidence that oral transmission rarely if ever happens , you would have to have meth mouth and large open wounds and blow a guy with a sky high viral load . Oral transmission is nothing more than a theoretical risk , one you didn't have .

Please read this thread again and I think you will see we already covered this .
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You can read more about Testing here:
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You can read more about Treatment-as-Prevention (TasP) here:
HIV TasP
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You can read more about PEP and PrEP here
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