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Contact with Menstrual blood
« on: July 25, 2012, 12:00:07 pm »
I am a 39 year old male in India. A day back, I decided to opt for a full body massage from a male. I also had a big pimple burst on my back a day back and it was not completely healed. He massaged my back and then during the massage, the massuer licked my anus deeply with his tongue going in and also inserted his finger. I sucked his testicles and then after he also put on a condom I sucked him for a couple of minutes, though he did not ejaculate. He then proceed to suck my penis, after I put on a condom and finished with me ejaculating in his mouth.

I am now very worried about hiv transmission due to the analingus and on asking the masseur, he was not ready to comment on his hiv status. He only said that he frequently provides sexual services to his clients. I am very worried now. Am I at a risk of hiv transmission?

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Re: Worried on HIV transmission risk due to Analingus
« Reply #1 on: July 25, 2012, 12:10:11 pm »
Vamesh,

Absolutely nothing you did or had done to you was a risk for hiv infection.

Saliva is not infectious, so none of the oral activities were a risk.

Hiv is transmitted by unprotected anal or vaginal intercourse;

sharing drug injecting equipment;

and from mother to child in the womb or during birth.

And that's it. You didn't engage in any of those three activities and therefore you were not at risk.

Here's what you need to know in order to avoid hiv infection:

You need to be using condoms for anal or vaginal intercourse, every time, no exceptions until such time as you are in a securely monogamous relationship where you have both tested for ALL sexually transmitted infections together.

To agree to have unprotected intercourse is to consent to the possibility of being infected with an STI. Sex without a condom lasts only a matter of minutes, but hiv is forever.

Have a look through the condom and lube links in my signature line so you can use condoms with confidence.

ALTHOUGH YOU DO NOT NEED TO TEST SPECIFICALLY OVER ANY OF ACTIVITIES YOU ARE WORRIED ABOUT, 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!

Ann
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« Reply #2 on: February 19, 2013, 09:42:01 am »
Am a 39 year old male from India. I have just had a paid sexual encounter with CSW in India in the last 24 hours. She gave me oral and I was not using a condom while receiving the oral. She was licking and pushing her tongue into the penis opening and then sucked me by taking my penis completely into her mouth.

I do now know about her oral health, meaning I do no know whether she had any bleeding gums or ulcers in her mouth.

Apart from that, I was kissing & licking her over, though I did not lick her pussy or anus, and I have a ulcer on the tip of the tongue.

Later on after the oral, I put on a condom to have vaginal sex with her.

On asking about her hiv status, she was not ready to reply. I am now worried because her reluctance to reply means she might be infected.

Considering she is hiv+, I was worried about hiv transmission from the oral sex and wanted to know the risk involved.

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Re: Encounter with CSW in India
« Reply #3 on: February 19, 2013, 09:47:09 am »
There is absolutely no risk to you in receiving oral sex. Not only is saliva not infectious, but it contains over a dozen identified elements that neutralize HIV and render it inert.

Keep using a condoning for penetrative sex and you will avoid HIV. It really is that simple.
"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: Encounter with CSW in India
« Reply #4 on: February 19, 2013, 10:56:33 am »
Vamesh,

I've merged your new thread into your original thread - where you should post all your additional thoughts or questions. It helps us to help you when you keep everything in one thread. It doesn't matter how long it has been since you last posted in your thread or if the subject matter is different.

If you need help finding your thread when you come here, click on the "Show own posts" link under your name in the left-hand column of any forum page.

Please also read through the Welcome Thread so you can familiarize yourself with our Forum Posting Guidelines. Thank you for your cooperation.




As Jonathan said, nothing you are worried about was a risk for hiv infection. Please re-read your entire thread.

Ann
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Contact with Menstrual blood
« Reply #5 on: March 22, 2013, 05:35:45 am »
Hello,

Yesterday I had a protected sexual contact with a CSW in India.  During foreplay I noticed she was lactating and copious amount of breast milk was coming out, which I used to wipe off with my hands. I normally have painful skin breaks around the nails. Does his pose a risk for hiv transmission?

I had put on a condom and she first gave me a oral with the condom on.

Later on I penetrated her and while changing position when I pulled my penis out, I saw menstrual blood on the condom. The lady immediately removed the condom. Though I did not check, I feel the condom was not broken as I could not see any visual blood on my penis.

She then put on another condom on my penis. Here  I am not sure whether she had got blood on her fingers when she removed the earlier condom.

Does this pose a risk, considering she had certain traces of blood on her fingers?

What is more worrying for me is she had earlier during a conversation agreed for a penetration without a condom, which means she would have also had un-protected sex with other clients.

Am I at a risk here? Should I consider going for a PEP?

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Re: Contact with Menstrual blood
« Reply #6 on: March 22, 2013, 08:23:47 am »
Vamesh,

ONCE AGAIN, I've merged your new thread into your original thread - where you should post all your additional thoughts or questions. It helps us to help you when you keep everything in one thread. It doesn't matter how long it has been since you last posted in your thread or if the subject matter is different.

If you need help finding your thread when you come here, click on the "Show own posts" link under your name in the left-hand column of any forum page.

Please also read through the Welcome Thread so you can familiarize yourself with our Forum Posting Guidelines. Thank you for your cooperation.




Once again you have NOT had a risk for hiv transmission. You absolutely do NOT need PEP over this NO RISK encounter.

You have NOT had a risk.

You do NOT need PEP.

You do NOT even need to test over this situation.

Hiv is a fragile, difficult to transmit virus that is primarily transmitted INSIDE the human body, as in unprotected anal or vaginal intercourse where the virus never leaves the confines of the two bodies.

Once outside the body, small changes in temperature, and pH and moisture levels all quickly damage the virus and render it unable to infect. For this reason, any blood on your fingers or her fingers touching the condom did not pose a risk.

It doesn't matter that she was menstruating. What DOES matter is that you wore a condom and that means you were protected.

Condoms have been proven to prevent hiv transmission - even when the woman is menstruating. There have been three 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.

Once again you're worrying for no good reason. Re-read your thread until you understand that all you need to be doing is to use condoms for anal or vaginal intercourse.

Use condoms for anal or vaginal intercourse, correctly and consistently, and you will avoid hiv infection. It really is that simple!

Ann
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"...health will finally be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for." Kofi Annan

Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man. Mignon McLaughlin

HIV is certainly character-building. It's made me see all of the shallow things we cling to, like ego and vanity. Of course, I'd rather have a few more T-cells and a little less character. Randy Shilts

 


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