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Dr. Handsfield,
I'm sure you're going to roll your eyes at all the ridiculous specifics that I'm going to ask, but this is what being paranoid about having a life-long STD will do to you. I, a male, received unprotected oral sex from a female escort today, and although she didn't have any visible sores I went straight to the internet worrying about what was going to happen to me from it. So it turns out my chances of contracting anything are slim, from previous posts.

Does scrubbing your genitals with soap and water IMMEDIATELY after the one-hour act (as in, walk directly to the bathroom) have any potential to minimize your risk? Same question with rinsing out your mouth with Listerine? There was no intercourse involved in the described activity, and I don't know if that would change anything but thought I should be specific.

Also, last question, if you hypothetically took an antiretroviral medication the day of/after exposure and maintained the therapy for a number of weeks, could that keep you from contracting the virus? I understand that you must be diagnosed as HAVING the virus by a medical professional in order to attain a prescription, and that you would never endorse abusing prescription drugs. Nor would I. In this case I am simply picking your brain to see what you think that would do.

Thanks for all the time you've put in to helping people in a public forum like this


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Not the Dr's site.
You have to pay $15 to ask the Dr's a question. If you don't want to do that then post this question in the herpes community for free. Alot of knowledgable people there to help you out.