Protected Oral Sex with incision on scrotum

[bturk]

Hi,

I had protected (condom) oral sex in a strip club, but I had a vasectomy about 10 days before and am worried that the healing incision may have been enough to allow saliva to enter my body and put me at risk for HIV/STD's.  Assuming that she inadvertantly put her mouth over th incision, is there any risk?  Thank you.

[auntiejessi]

In order to transmit HIV via saliva, you'd have to spit something like 10 gallons of spit to collect enough HIV to infect someone else.

And the HIV questions belong in the HIV forum.

[Vance2335]

You asked this same question in the HIV Prevention form. if you do not know the answer then why are you questioning the responce.

Has HIV ever been transfered from one person to another from a kiss? NO. HIV is not contained in saliva. There has not been 1 solid documentated case of getting HIV from receiving oral sex. That information comes straight from the Dr's on this site as well as people on the HIV form.

I don't mind it when people question my answers because I am not perfect and I don't know everything but the logic behind putting my answer into question is foolish.

And I believe that arg34 and bturk are the same person. Because the question asked by both are the same. If this is true then you should not have 2 different ID's on here. If I am wrong then I apologize, but I don't think I am.

[arg34]

AJ/Vance,

You guys may be giving some bad advice here.  A vasectomy incision is on the scrotum, not the penis, so even if this person had protected oral sex, if her mouth or any saliva got into the incision, there could be risk of HIV infection since that is technically saliva to blood contact.  After 10 days though, maybe the cut was healed enough.

[auntiejessi]

I might worry about genital herpes, though.  If someone has oral herpes and gives someone else oral, even with a condom, they can transmit that to the other person's genitals.

The only time saliva can transmit herpes is if it comes into contact with an active herpes lesion.

Even if the incision didn't come into contact with anything, its a small concern.  I'm sure your doctor gave you some instructions, and if it wasn't on there, you should avoid contact with any potential germ or bacteria, as that can cause infection.  Perhaps you should avoid sexual contact like this until your incision is healed.

Aj

[Vance2335]

Yes, reading will always get you scared because a lot of information that is out there is really just theory. Their has not been 1 well documentated cases of getting HIV from receiving oral sex.

If you think about it, if saliva carried STD's wouldn't people be scared of kissing? Wouldn't people have to get tested before they kissed?

So with that said saliva does not contain STD's and by some chance it did, it would be so small that it could not transmit it to another person. The mouth is a very hostile enviroment for STD that is why you don't see a lot of oral STD's. Not impossible to have an oral STD like gonorrhea but not very common.

And don't worry you were protected so you could not get gonorrhe even with your cut.

[bturk]

Thanks Vance.  I suppose the existence of HIV in saliva is also low; therefore, I should be at low risk should any saliva have entered the incision on my scrotum?  Sounds as though I may be reading too much into the potential for problems from the encounter.

[Vance2335]

Saliva does not transmit STD's.

[bturk]

Thanks.  Even with a patially healed incision?  I am mostly worried about any saliva that enter that wound.  Mostly my concern would be HIV or Herpes transmitted from her saliva through the incision.  Of course, this is all predicated upon her having something and passing it on to me, which is alos probably not the case.

[Vance2335]

Oral sex is very low risk and saliva does not transmit STD's.
I would not worry about this encounter.