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Can someone help ease my mind? HIV exposure risk...
About a month ago I received oral sex from a girl I met through friends. She was also on top my me, naked, although there was never any penatrative vaginal sex. I had shaved prior to, but from my understanding, a superficial cut like that (assuming I even had one) wouldn't be able to transmit something like HIV. I tested negative prior to this "exposure" and have never been involved sexually with a high risk group (gay men, intravenous drug users). My anxiety is just going crazy with this. Could someone shed some light for me? Any reason to get tested?? Thank you!
So there was some genital contact, to make things clean, but it was very brief (5-10 seconds) with no penitration.
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As an adult, the only risks for HIV are:
1) having unprotected, penetrative vaginal or anal sex, or
2) sharing IV drug needles with other IV drug users.
You had NO RISK for HIV. There is no detail that you could add to this story to make it a risk for HIV. No one has ever contracted HIV by receiving oral sex or from superficial cuts and scrapes.
1) having unprotected, penetrative vaginal or anal sex, or
2) sharing IV drug needles with other IV drug users.
You had NO RISK for HIV. There is no detail that you could add to this story to make it a risk for HIV. No one has ever contracted HIV by receiving oral sex or from superficial cuts and scrapes.
Thank you so much for your response :-) I guess I'm just suffering from a combination of misinformation and anxiety/OCD
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