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Lapse in judgement / Open vs. Closed wound

I was at a strip club last night and made the mistake of placing my fingers in a dancer's vagina for a few minutes.  I wanted to assess my risk for HIV/HerpesWhitlow/general STD.

Specifics are:

1. She had no visible sores/evidence of genital herpes of any kind.
2. I had no open (defined as bleeding) cuts on my fingers, but did have a small closed (non-bleeding) cut on one finger.  No evidence of blood on my finger at any point.  The cuts was recessed, so there was a cut recessed, but no bleeding.  Not sure is this counts as a open or closed wound.  Thoughts?
3. She did suck on said finger at one point.

Assumptions:

1. I think my risk of HIV is low for the reason that the very small wound appeared closed (I do not know if she is HIV+).
2. I think my risk of any other STDs is also low for same reason.
3. While she showed no noticeable signs of any herpes sores (I do not know if she is Herpes Infected) I have read that there is a small chance that you can contract herpes whitlock from genital herpes (rarely, but still) even if they are not showing symptoms.  My assumption that the herpes virus (If present) would not transfer from genital to whitlock (fingers) easily through shedding even if she had it.

With the above in mind, I will be going to the doctor to ask about this tomorrow, but:

1.  Does my wound sound open?
2.  What is the likely hood of some one catching Herpes Whitlow from a now showing person.
3.  How high should my concern level be...

Thanks in advance for anyone who takes the time to answer
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an open wound is defined as bleeding and a wound if recessed but not bleeding is defined as closed, correct?


CORRECT.


I wouldnt advise any testing.  testing should be done on a yearly basis if sexually active, if you want to get tested just for pace of mind go ahead, but for this encounter is is not needed.
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Hi Healthadvisory! Something similar happened to me, but it only happened with a man. So I had a paper cut wound that was already scabbed on my finger and another at the back of my hand on the same hand. Both have already scabbed, wounds are closed.

Here's what happened, gave a guy a handjob and he came over my fingers, it specially coated the finger with the almost healed wounds. Washed the semen off my fingers with warm water, causing the semen from the guy to get in contact with the wound at the back of my hand. Don't know if it is any help but I always moisturize my hands so there's also a thin film of hand moisturizer that coated the wound at the back of my hand.

Would really love to hear back from you. Thank you in advance.
There is no scenario you could think of that would make a handjob a risk for STDs.  Even if semen landed on your hand, or any other part of your body.  Fluids landing on you is zero risk, EVEN IF you had a wound on your hand.  Forget about this event and move on.
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Thanks!
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Thanks man.  As a point of clarification,

1 an open wound is defined as bleeding and a wound if recessed but not bleeding is defined as closed, correct?
2. would you still advise me going to see a clinic doc to be sure?

Sorry to nudge.  I greatly appreciate the help.
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You never had a risk. MOVE ON.
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