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Offline george92

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Advice please
« on: September 24, 2017, 06:41:31 pm »
Hi there

I would be grateful for some guidance.

I had a threeway last night with two guys. I don’t know their HIV status. Two of us topped, the other bottomed. We used condoms for anal sex and had unprotected oral (nobody came in anyone’s mouth although I’m confident some precum was involved).

I noticed I had a small line of cuts from an electric trimmer on the shaft of my penis which must have been from when I trimmed about 30 mins before the encounter started.

I appreciate from other posts that there is a negligible risk of contracting HIV through oral sex. However if one of the guys had precummed in the other guy’s mouth, who then proceeded to ‘suck me off’, bearing in mind the recent cuts on my shaft, could I be at risk?

If so, should I go to a GUM clinic to ask for PEP tomorrow morning? Bearing in mind the 72 hour window after potential exposure.

Thanks.

Offline Ptrk3

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Re: Advice please
« Reply #1 on: September 24, 2017, 07:15:56 pm »
As you appear to understand, protected sex is not a risk for HIV infection, so any and all activities in which you engaged in when wearing a condom constitutes "safer sex."

In regard to unprotected oral sex (giving and/or receiving), receiving unprotected oral sex is not a risk for HIV infection.  Giving unprotected oral sex is a theoretical risk only, and would require large gaping wounds in the "giver's" mouth (think "meth mouth").

However, any type of unprotected oral sex exposes you to the potential of other STD's/STI's.

Now, to your specific question, the HIV is fragile and does not survive outside the body in a viable manner, so would not survive in a viable manner to "transfer" in the manner about which you are concerned (small cuts/abrasions on the shaft of your penis are not viable pathways into your blood stream).

There really is no need for you to seek PEP for the incident(s) you describe in your post, but that is your decision.
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