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Possible HIV Encounter
I'm in Harrogate, England, I contacted an escort service and got what I was told a 20 year old girl. I wore a condom during all vaginal sex and was careful about not putting it too far in so the base of my penis bare didn't go inside of her vagina.
We had protected sex twice, after the second time I noticed there was blood at the base of the condom (There was none during the first time), I'm concerned about the possibility of catching an STD or HIV from this encounter. I had a little pimple on my scrotum which I noticed an hour before she came over, I popped it, now I'm worried that it is an open wound and her vaginal fluids with blood on it got on my penis and scrotum.
What is the likelyhood I will contract HIV from this??? I'm very nervous. Thank you.
We had protected sex twice, after the second time I noticed there was blood at the base of the condom (There was none during the first time), I'm concerned about the possibility of catching an STD or HIV from this encounter. I had a little pimple on my scrotum which I noticed an hour before she came over, I popped it, now I'm worried that it is an open wound and her vaginal fluids with blood on it got on my penis and scrotum.
What is the likelyhood I will contract HIV from this??? I'm very nervous. Thank you.
Thank you, I appreciate it.
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
Just like HIV, there was no risk for herpes or any other STD from this exposure.
I deleted the comment with the web address for the escort service you used, without following the link, which was not necessary and really not appropriate for this forum.
That's all for this thread. I won't have any further comments or advice.
I deleted the comment with the web address for the escort service you used, without following the link, which was not necessary and really not appropriate for this forum.
That's all for this thread. I won't have any further comments or advice.
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
My first comment responds simultaneously to this question and to your thread on the STD forum last May. For your own sanity, you need to do one of two things: either learn what the risks for STD and HIV really are, get comfortable with them, make safe choices thereafter, and move on; or stop having sex until and unless you forge a mutually committed relationship with an uninfected person.
As you learned last time, hand jobs carry no STD risk. Now your take-home messages are 1) most commercial sex workers don't have HIV (the UK Health Protection Agency estimates only 1 in 1,000 London prostitutes has HIV, and the rate is lower for more expensive sex workers like escorts; even with unprotected vaginal sex, the chance of HIV transmission is around 1 in 1,000 if one partner is infected (taken together, these two statistics mean that the chance you would catch HIV was less than 1 in a million even if you hadn't used a condom; 3) condoms work; 4) a little blood on the skin carries no HIV risk. The pimple on your scrotum makes no difference.
Bottom line: There was no HIV risk here and you do not need testing for it.
As far as being "very nervous", see my opening comment above. You need to learn the real risks. It isn't appropriate to continue to have exposures that make you nervous and then come to this or other online sources for reassurance.
Regards-- HHH, MD
As you learned last time, hand jobs carry no STD risk. Now your take-home messages are 1) most commercial sex workers don't have HIV (the UK Health Protection Agency estimates only 1 in 1,000 London prostitutes has HIV, and the rate is lower for more expensive sex workers like escorts; even with unprotected vaginal sex, the chance of HIV transmission is around 1 in 1,000 if one partner is infected (taken together, these two statistics mean that the chance you would catch HIV was less than 1 in a million even if you hadn't used a condom; 3) condoms work; 4) a little blood on the skin carries no HIV risk. The pimple on your scrotum makes no difference.
Bottom line: There was no HIV risk here and you do not need testing for it.
As far as being "very nervous", see my opening comment above. You need to learn the real risks. It isn't appropriate to continue to have exposures that make you nervous and then come to this or other online sources for reassurance.
Regards-- HHH, MD
Er I meant what is the possibility of Herpes?
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