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Can I get HIV from sperm on fresh cut and in my eye

Hi. My boyfriend and I are both virgins.Or at least he says he is. I stupidly let him come to my apartment. I was trying to open a bottle with scissors and cut a half inch slice in my thumb which bled a little. An hour later we masturbated each other. He ejaculated on the hand that didnt have sperm. I went to the bathroom and didnt think and rubbed a small part of my eye with my hand and I got a little sperm on it. Then after i washed that hand I looked at the cut on the other one and saw a drop of liquid sitting on the cut near the bottom of it. i was So shocked that i stared at it until it dissolved. So then i thought maybe it was water. I came to this site and read many threads until i was satisfied that These things were not high risk. The constant advice given here is that only intraveneous needles and unprotected sex Will transmit the virus.
However there is one thread on this site in which someone is advised that they need to get tested because their eyes were ejaculated on. Also the CDC website says that open wounds and cuts can have the virus transmitted. Would someone please advise me about the risk i put myself in and why the advice for that person whose eyes were ejaculated on is different than other similar questions. When the CDC is talking about open wounds and cuts what do they mean. And finally i read here that there have been no instances of hiv transmission through handjobs...Would that include people with cuts that were ejaculated on. Thank you.
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This answers all of your HIV questions, and if you can think of any more just reread about the 3. You had zero risk therefore  testing is irrelevant to your situation because you had zero risk. HIV is a fragile virus, which is instantly inactivated in air and also in saliva which means it is effectively dead so it can't infect from touching, external rubbing or oral activities. It doesn't matter if you and they were actively bleeding or had cuts at the time either because the HIV is effectively dead.  
Only 3 adult risks are the following:
1. unprotected penetrating vaginal with a penis
2. unprotected penetrating anal sex with a penis
3. sharing needles that you inject with.
The only way to get HIV is if you did one of the 3. The situation you describe is a long way from any of these 3.
Even with blood, lactation, cuts, rashes, burns, etc the air or the saliva does not allow inactivated virus to infect from touching, external rubbing or oral activities. Doctors have calculated the risk from what you describe to be less than that of being hit by a meteor, therefore no one will get HIV from what you did in the next 40 years of your life either. The above HIV science is 40 years old and very well established, so no detail that you can add to your encounter will change it from zero risk.
If you didn't have one of the 3 then you are just worrying about your own hiv theory - which is unrealistic for you to think that can become reality - so you should move on back to your happy life instead.
There are 10o,000 hiv threads on this site so I have no idea what one you are referring to in your claim. The CDC sometimes uses theoretical risks that have never manifested in 40 years of real life, so how useful is that to someone wondering if they had a risk?
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