HIV from Bleeding Cut and Fingering?

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to determine my risk of getting HIV after a recent vacation.

I was in a strip club in Negril, Jamaica and, stupidly, was blacked out drunk. I otherwise would have no worries about HIV infection except that, at one point during the night, I picked a piece of glass off of my shoe and it cut me fairly deeply. I was bleeding in the club and had to go get a napkin to stop it up.

I had the same girl following me all night. I definitely did not have intercourse or oral sex with her but, at most, I MAY have fingered her (I say MAY because I was blacked out drunk and do not remember... hence this post). And, as you know, Jamaica has fairly rampant HIV/AIDS... I could only imagine the statistic for strip club workers.

Would this have possibly exposed me to HIV?

The next day, I knocked the cut and it began to bleed again so I would imagine that, if I did finger her that night, it would have split open again. Also, 2 days later, a friend looked at the cut and said it probably could have used a stitch but I don't (and didn't) think so.

[Teak]

NO...

[yikes21]

Teak,

Thank you for the response but would you care to explain more for me?

I am getting caught up on the possibility of open bleeding cut + possibly infected vaginal secretions.

[Teak]

You didn't stick a open bleeding wound into any woman nor would a woman let you stick a bleeding finger into her.

[yikes21]

Would a *deep* cut that wasn't bleeding at the time represent an risk of infection? I know blood clotting is said to defend against infection. So, is active bleeding the criterion for being open to infection?

And you say that a woman wouldn't let a man stick a bleeding finger into her but keep in mind this is a Jamaican strip club where the women are in poverty and uneducated and there is a brothel next door that they work at. For a few extra $$, I think they would let about anything go (not that they would know to do otherwise or risk getting an STD). Just saying...

[jhguy011]

Did you finger a woman with a deep wound that had just clotted?  I think that might be painful!

[yikes21]

Yeah, it probably was.

Oh well... I'm just going to hope that the stars didn't align and I didn't finger a woman with HIV with an open cut in my blacked out state.

[jhguy011]

You'd be the first human in the history of HIV (i.e. it ain't gonna happen!).

[Teak]

You'ld be better off not having sex at all if you drink till you black out.