Unfortunately I had a lapse of not being very careful and had a possible risk encounter again. I was having a sexual encounter where I realized that for a moment, the condom slipped out. I wasn't really sure whether it slipped out when inside (I was vaguely losing my erection) or whether it was a case of slipping out during removal or when inside during the intercourse, but the condom was readjusted and used briefly again.
I'm not going to waste everyone's time and reiterate my old talking points, so just some very specific questions I hope someone would answer:
1) Obviously, this is a riskier encounter than my last one and I am exposed to some risk. However, this risk would have been lower than having the condom staying on throughout so I should still be more protected than if I hadn't been using one in the first place? Obviously, I still have to and will do the whole periodical testing, including for other STIs as I should be doing.
2) I'm planning to go to my local clinic in the morning and get myself the requisite doses of 28-day PEP, by which time it would have still been around less than 18 hour from the encounter, which fits the window of 72 hours or as soon as possible, whichever is earlier. My question is whether given the sort of encounter, it would be something that's worth going through the entire regiment for, or whether I am completely overreacting?
Thanks again. I do hope I haven't been repeating old talking points.
Jim Allen:
--- Quote ---Unfortunately I had a lapse of not being very careful and had a possible risk encounter again. I was having a sexual encounter where I realized that for a moment, the condom slipped out. I wasn't really sure whether it slipped out when inside (I was vaguely losing my erection) or whether it was a case of slipping out during removal or when inside during the intercourse, but the condom was readjusted and used briefly again. --- End quote ---
So this is unclear but if I am reading this correctly the condom didn't fully come off during intercourse, you would have noticed a missing condom and remembered having to fish it out of your partner.
It rode up a bit on your shaft during intercourse, you pulled out and readjusted it before carrying on. That you state you readjusted the condom before carrying on gave away that it never left your penis, it's not an HIV risk, move on with your life.
id101550:
--- Quote ---you would have noticed a missing condom and remembered having to fish it out of your partner. --- End quote ---
Apologies Jim, my language wasn't very clear. That's exactly what might have happened, the problem was that during removal the condom wasn't on my penis, but I wasn't sure whether that's by virtue of it having slipped off during the intercourse, or whether the grip during the removal might have accidentally also lifted the condom from my penis.
There wasn't "fishing" in the sense that my partner had to look around for it, but there was a brief one second where we had to look for it, if that makes sense. There's some uncertainty but I'd imagine this would be a risk.
Jim Allen:
Okay, so you pulled your penis out and the condom was fully missing, so your penis was fully exposed, correct?
You then found the condom, was it hanging out of their vagina or anus? Or was the condom found somewhere else? and then you decided to put the condom back on?
id101550:
--- Quote ---Okay, so you pulled your penis out and the condom was fully missing, so your penis was fully exposed, correct? --- End quote ---
Yes
--- Quote ---You then found the condom, where? and decided to put the condom back on?
--- End quote ---
Hanging on to my partner's vagina, and yes I did, I was an idiot.