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Author Topic: She-male maybe HIV  (Read 18551 times)

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Offline Ann

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Re: She-male maybe HIV
« Reply #50 on: May 08, 2011, 01:36:16 pm »
Etops,

We can't help that the forum software does that. It doesn't matter how long it has been since you last posted in your thread or if the subject matter is different, we still require you to post in your original thread. That's how this forum is run, please keep that in mind in future.

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Re: She-male maybe HIV
« Reply #51 on: May 15, 2011, 12:23:40 am »
I been browsing through the threads and there seems to be a lot of heated debate about oral sex--I am freaking out now after not worrying. My only unprotected encounters with women that I was in a relationship with and I was in the room on both 4 week total 8 week tests...none were poz--this TS that i played with though has me thinking--I pushed my penis against her anus never inserting--just applying pressure--I also gave brief oral--now I am wondering if I could be at risk? I am so educated on this stuff--but then you have a scientifically sound website like this and (i did not troll, but saw posts in the am i infected forum regarding people in the newly infected stating it was oral---then that gentleman quoting the spanish studies.....When I have played with men its always been mutual masturbation--quick oral on me only---this one time I performed oral---and I want to feel comfortable with my lifestyle and feel I am cautious enough---but seems to be that many people are stating they were so cautious yet do not know how this happened...is there a missing link? Maybe frottage is a risk or giving oral? Maybe the medical community is not researching enough?

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Re: She-male maybe HIV
« Reply #52 on: May 15, 2011, 04:06:24 am »
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Re: She-male maybe HIV
« Reply #53 on: May 15, 2011, 08:27:29 am »
etops,

Sometimes people forget about what they did under the influence of drink and/or drugs. Sometimes they cannot admit to their partners what they'd been getting up to and have to keep up the pretence. Sometimes people cannot even admit to themselves that they've had unprotected anal or vaginal intercourse when they "should know better". Sometimes people feel the need to play the "innocent victim". There are all sorts of reasons why some people do not accurately report how they became infected. I suggest you do yourself a favour and take such reports with a grain of salt.

Why? Because of the serodiscordant studies. They are MUCH more reliable than patient report studies or anecdotal patient report like you see in online forums. There have been long-term studies of couples where one is positive and one is negative. In the couples who used condoms for anal or vaginal intercourse, but no barrier for oral activities, not one of the negative partners became infected with hiv. Not one. These studies involved hundreds of couples and one went on for over ten years. Some of the poz partners were on meds with undetectable viral loads, while others were not on meds and had detectable viral loads.

Please go back and re-read reply #15. Heed the advice there about condom and lube use and having regular sexual health check-ups and you'll be just fine where hiv is concerned.

BTW, you have not had a risk for hiv infection.

Ann
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