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protected sex with a menstruating woman
Hi Doc, 4 months ago i had a protected sex with an African prostitute in Thailand. I wore a durex condom during the whole sex. When i finished i took out my penis and noticed a menstural blood on the external part of the condom and on my penis part that is closed to my testicals. I removed the condom and haven't noticed any blood remains on the sensitive parts of the penis. But what scares me is that during the removal of the condom there was a millisecond of an interaction of blood remains on the condoms ring. Ive checked the condom afterwards and filled it with water to make sure there wasnt a cut or something and it was ok. Before the sex the woman made an oral blowjob (with no condom for about 15 seconds).Im terrified that i might got hiv because of this. Is there any chance i got hiv? Should i go and be tested? Please answer me asap. Thank you.
How long it takes the virus to "die" effectively? Ive seen in few forums various times, some say fee minutes, some say immediately. When i pulled the condom from its head i wasnt sure if there was an interaction between the condom's ring which had small amount of blood and my pinhole (this action took less than a second as i remember), but im not sure how long the blood was there and if it had enough time to "die" effectively.
Thanks again for your answer
Thanks again for your answer
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You had no risk of HIV and are so safe that you don't need to test.
HIV is instantly inactivated in air and also in saliva which means it is effectively dead so it can't infect from oral or contact activities outside the vagina or anus. It doesn't matter if you and they were actively bleeding or had cuts at the time either because the HIV is effectively dead.
Only adult risks are unprotected penetrating vaginal or anal sex or sharing needles that you inject with but you didn't do that so you had no risk. This sentence is all you need to know to protect yourself against HIV.
Even with blood, lactation, cuts, rashes, burns, etc the air or the saliva does not allow inactivated virus to infect from oral or air contact activities. The above HIV science is 40 years old and very well established so nothing you can add will make your situation a risk.
No one got HIV from oral or air contact activities in 40 years of HIV history, so likely no one will in the next 40 years of your life either.
If a condom fails it is a large rip down the seam and it hangs in tatters so both of you would have noticed. filling with water is a waste of time.
HIV is instantly inactivated in air and also in saliva which means it is effectively dead so it can't infect from oral or contact activities outside the vagina or anus. It doesn't matter if you and they were actively bleeding or had cuts at the time either because the HIV is effectively dead.
Only adult risks are unprotected penetrating vaginal or anal sex or sharing needles that you inject with but you didn't do that so you had no risk. This sentence is all you need to know to protect yourself against HIV.
Even with blood, lactation, cuts, rashes, burns, etc the air or the saliva does not allow inactivated virus to infect from oral or air contact activities. The above HIV science is 40 years old and very well established so nothing you can add will make your situation a risk.
No one got HIV from oral or air contact activities in 40 years of HIV history, so likely no one will in the next 40 years of your life either.
If a condom fails it is a large rip down the seam and it hangs in tatters so both of you would have noticed. filling with water is a waste of time.
Thanks for your answer
A little correction to make things clear: what scares me is that im not quite sure if during the removal of the condom (pulled it from the head) there was an interaction of blood remains on the condoms ring and my penis head. Ive checked my penis right after and it looked oily of the sperm but didnt see any blood marks or anything like that on it. Thanks
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Dead virus can't infect, so it is time to move on from HIV fears.
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