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pre-seminal fluid/pre-***
what is the likelihood of the transmission of the hiv virus if pre-seminal fluid (pre-***) enters a) a cut b) anus/genitals and c) a healing body piercing with scar tissue?
Because it's related to the posters question...or should I start a new thread? No problem, I'll just copy paste it.
What I was wondering is why people hijack other people's threads to ask a question.
that's something I've always wondered...let's say one has a cold sore on his/her lips, and someone ejaculates while some of the sperm gets on the cold sore. It's outside the body, but could it still cause infection?
HIV does not transmit outside its host.
Wait... the piercing parlor decribed a piercing as an open wound and it's healing so it has scar tissue...
The healing belly button would not be a factor as it’s not an open wound, besides there are other factors which prevent HIV from transmitting outside of the host, they are oxygen, temperature and Ph change. HIV needs to be inside the body to transmit so it needed to be present inside the anus rather than on the outside where it is exposed to oxygen etc... no risk
i'm asking because i think pre-seminal fluid may have entered (i'm not certain) my healing bellybutton ring. he says he's hiv- but that's just what he says. also the tip of his penis, wet with the pre-seminal fluid (which had been there for at least a few minutes, and i know hiv can't live for long outside the body), may have touched broken skin around my anus and genital area.
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