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Should I be concerned?

Should I be concerned?

Hi, thanks for taking a minute to give me some advice.  I am a gay male and had a gernally safe encounter with another HIV+ gay male a few days ago.  By safe, I mean we kissed and had mutual masturbation, which I know are both safe/low risk.  

My concern is that at one point during our play, my buddy put his fingers inside my rectum.  Given our position and the circumstances, I could not see if he had any of his semen on his fingers.  I have read that "pre-***" isn't a big risk.  However, I can't find much about semen on fingers.  Again, it was fingers only, and not his penis.  I checked afterward and I wasn't bleeding and I didn't find anything that looked like it could have been semen around my rectum, but I don't want to rely on that solely.  

As you've noted, one can obcess over these things and I would really rather put this behind me.  I plan to get a 3 month checkup anyway but any words of wisdom you have as to the risk of this situation would be helpful.

Thanks
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no risk.  you can't get hiv that way.  hiv can't live outside the body.
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no one has ever been infected from fingering...semen or not.   you were not at risk from what you have described.
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Thanks for your help!
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