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Unprotected Sex Toy, HIV?
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Edward W Hook, MD - HIV Prevention, stds
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Some of the most common types of questions concern the risk of HIV or STD after a particular sexual exposure, and about symptoms that might or might not be due to HIV. If your question is along these lines, please visit the HIV Prevention and Safe Sex Forum.
Unprotected Sex Toy, HIV?
by xtrialx, Jul 17, 2008 06:48PM
Hi Doc Im a 24 year old bi male. I guess Im bi, I have sex with women and transexuals so Im not sure what that makes me. Here is my question last night I met a transexual through the internet (who I have met before about 3 months ago and showed no signs of std's) and I recieved unprotected rough oral sex. He also used an unprocted dildo on me. I was drunk at the time and wasn't thinking like so many other people. So after the act I freaked and asked him if he had ever used it before and he said no, that he had taken it out of the package before I got there and washed it. At no time while I was there did he use the dildo on himself. I am just worried that he might at some point before I got there used it on himself and didn't tell me.
1. What are the chances of HIV infection from this act and should I get tested.
2. Am I also at risk for herpes 2 because I have heard Dr. H say that a large amount of gay men have it? Does a transgendered person fall under gay man?
1. What are the chances of HIV infection from this act and should I get tested.
2. Am I also at risk for herpes 2 because I have heard Dr. H say that a large amount of gay men have it? Does a transgendered person fall under gay man?
Doctor's Answer
by Edward W Hook, MD, Jul 17, 2008 07:41PM
, Jul 17, 2008 07:41PM
Straight to your questions:
1. You are bi.
2. Risk from the sex toy -zero. HIV is not spread by inanimate objects that have not been used on others. Risk from oral sex. Less than 1 in 10,000 if he was infected - most unlikely.
3. Herpes. Again, low. If he had oral herpes and a cold sore, perhaps but unlikely. If you get cold sores yourself, you have partial immunity making it even more unlikely that you got it. Since there was no contact with his genitals you are unlikely to have gotten HSV-2.
there's a lot to learn about herpes. The disease is common with HSV-1 being present in over 60% of adults and HSV-2 (the virus which causes most genital herpes) being present in about 1 in 5 Americans. The rates I mention are for the general population. Among men who have sex with other men (you) rates are even higher. For both infections, the majority of people who have the infections are not aware that they are infected, either because they either acquired it without knowing in the past or because they misidentified their herpes as something else. I will do my best to answer your questions but in general, many of these questions and information about herpes can be obtained by accessing excellent informational web sites such as the one run by the American Social Health Association (disclosure, Dr. Handsfield and I are both on the Board of Directors of ASHA).
My advice, don't worry. EWH
1. You are bi.
2. Risk from the sex toy -zero. HIV is not spread by inanimate objects that have not been used on others. Risk from oral sex. Less than 1 in 10,000 if he was infected - most unlikely.
3. Herpes. Again, low. If he had oral herpes and a cold sore, perhaps but unlikely. If you get cold sores yourself, you have partial immunity making it even more unlikely that you got it. Since there was no contact with his genitals you are unlikely to have gotten HSV-2.
there's a lot to learn about herpes. The disease is common with HSV-1 being present in over 60% of adults and HSV-2 (the virus which causes most genital herpes) being present in about 1 in 5 Americans. The rates I mention are for the general population. Among men who have sex with other men (you) rates are even higher. For both infections, the majority of people who have the infections are not aware that they are infected, either because they either acquired it without knowing in the past or because they misidentified their herpes as something else. I will do my best to answer your questions but in general, many of these questions and information about herpes can be obtained by accessing excellent informational web sites such as the one run by the American Social Health Association (disclosure, Dr. Handsfield and I are both on the Board of Directors of ASHA).
My advice, don't worry. EWH
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