Kissed with dry lips

[Hairy Zack]

Hi guys,

A week ago, I was touching a guy's dick. That's all. No orgasms. Just rubbing his dick. And then he said he had to go. So he kissed me good bye on my lips. His lips was wet. I'm not sure if he had any semen or blood on his lips but it was wet. And my lips was dry. But not till there was blood due to dry lips. Just dry lips. Am I at risk if he had blood or semen on his lips ? The kiss was just about 1 - 2 seconds. Please help me. I'm so scared if I have HIV.

[Ptrk3]

Relax, you had no risk for HIV infection, none.  HIV is fragile and is not transmitted by kissing (HIV would not survive contact with oxygen and would not be active on his lips and would not have a viable entry into your bloodstream).  Move on with your life.

[Hairy Zack]

I stay in Malaysia. Will the virus condition be the same here ? Like it won't be able to survive contact with oxygen even in Malaysia ? And that guy was licking his lips several times before giving me the kiss which lasted for 1-2 seconds. Do I have any risk that way ? I'm just worried if any blood or semen entered me through my dry lips. Please help

[Jim Allen]

Hi

Basic biology in Malaysia is no different from the rest of the world and for a number of reasons this was simply not a risk and your fears about kissing and HIV are simply irrational.

HIV simply isn’t transmitted by hugging, shaking hands, sharing toilets, sharing dishes, kissing, through saliva, tears, or sweat. Saliva is also hostile towards HIV and corrodes it, in short sexually HIV is transmitted inside the human body as in never leaving the confides of the body, example unprotected intercourse. 

Why you may ask is it so difficult transmit and how does that relate to your kissing incident well HIV does not remain viable outside the human body, as explained it must be in the confides and never leaving the human body as once hiv finds itself exposed outside the body, small changes in temperature, pH / moisture levels all quickly damage the virus and render it unable to infect. This is because the outer protein/receptors that are needed to remain infectious corrodes in contact with the environment outside the human body.

Him licking his lips is simply not a risk.

So next too the fact that kissing, is not a risk, neither is saliva and even if there was HIV present (There simply was not) it would be not infectious anymore both from saliva that is hostile and the air exposure that corrodes HIV we move onto the final barrier, and by this stage even if you had an active gaping bleeding open wound it would not be a risk as explained above but sure we will go for the final reason why not.

Dry lips might seem open to you but more needed than just that now as explained above you had no exposure to HIV and now in short ill explain why no route, see for wounds to be even in the slightest theoretical risk, it would require deep open cuts that are actively bleeding such as from a knife wound from both parties and than they would need to directly bleed into each other.

Biologically, four conditions need to be present for transmission to occur: The virus must be present in an infectious body fluid from the HIV positive person, it must be present at sufficient levels to cause infection. There must be an effective route of transmission, and it must reach susceptible cells in another person.

You did not meet any of the 4 biological conditions needed, move on and stop this "what if" fear nonsense.

Here's what you need to know in order to avoid hiv infection:
Use condoms for anal or vaginal intercourse, correctly and consistently, every time, no exceptions.

Keep in mind that some sexual practices which may be described as ‘safe’ in terms of HIV transmission might still pose a risk for transmission of other STI's, so please do get fully tested regularly and at least yearly for all STI's including but not limited to HIV and test more frequently if unprotected intercourse occurs

Also note that it is possible to have an STI and show no signs or symptoms and the only way of knowing is by testing.

More information on HIV Basics, PEP, TaSP and Transmission can be found through the links in my signature to our POZ pages, this includes information on HIV Testing

Kind regards

Jim

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[Hairy Zack]

Thanks for the great help. But I think I should also tell that I have pearly penile papules. Is that a symptom of HIV that I should worry about ?

[Wade]

No it is not...especially since you have had no risk.

HIV is sexually transmitted though unprotected anal and vaginal intercourse, period.
If these were your only concerns it is safe to move on.

Best, Wade