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Hiv transmission through kissing and cuddling with wound?

I paid for cuddling and kissing half naked with a girl

I was kissing her in lips because i am feared due to my toothbrush wound so i am not going to do frenchkiss that time. But she had a pimple in a cheek with touched my cheek when i kissed the lips.

And then i was also licking her body, armpits, and nipple. As far as i know there were not any wounds in her body.

No oral sex either.

Am i at a risk of infected by hiv due to my mouth getting wound? Or in case she also has cuts in her body? Because i cuddled her
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No, this poses no risk of HIV. HIV is transmitted by having unprotected vaginal or anal sex or sharing IV needles to inject drugs. Air and saliva inactivate the virus. Nothing you did was a risk. No need to worry or test.
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So the risk of wound contact with skin is theoritical? Because when I cuddled her, I was naked while she wore lingerie but still there was skin contact, I was worrying if there is unrealized wound to contact.
Read the response again which tells you the ONLY ways that HIV is transmitted. Did you do any of those things? NO.
Okay, thanks!

But just gotta make sure that if there are exact cases of transmission by oral / kissing with wound, or licking body with wound?

Or all of those are just theoritical?
We don't offer anxiety support.  The methods of transmission are well-documented and well-studied. They are listed in GuitarRox's post above. This is the last comment from us.
Your situation involves personal contact with an object in air  (maybe blood, maybe cuts, lips, saliva, mouth, cuts anywhere, teeth, kiss, touch, pimple, etc. ) . You will be happy to learn that you had no risk, because you can't get hiv from personal contact except unprotected penetrating vaginal or anal with a penis, neither of which you did and you didn't share hollow needles to inject with which is the only other way to acquire hiv - there are ONLY 3 ways to get hiv. Note that 2 of them require a penis and the third requires a hollow injecting shared needle - there are no OTHER ways to get hiv. Analysis of large numbers of infected people over the 40 years of hiv history has proven that people don't get hiv in the way you are worried is a risk.
Hiv is a fragile virus in air or saliva and is effectively instantly dead in either air or saliva so the WORST that could happen is dead virus rubbed you, and obviously anything which is dead cannot live again so you are good. Blood and cuts would not be relevant in your situation since the hiv has become effectively dead, so you don't have to worry about them to be sure that you are safe.
There is no reason for a person to test when they are safe. The advice took into consideration that the other person might be positive, so move on and enjoy life instead of thinking about this non-event. hiv prevention is straightforward since there are only 3 ways you can become infected, so next time you wonder if you had a risk, ask yourself this QUESTION. "Did I do any of the 3?" Then after you ANSWER "No, I didn't" you will know that it's time to move on back to your happy life.
No one got hiv from what you did during 40 years of hiv history and no one will get it in the next 40 years of your life either.  You can do what you did any time and be safe from hiv.
The other person's status is irrelevant when you have no exposure to live virus.
If you still have questions about your risk, after reading all of the above, then it is because you didn't answer the QUESTION above.

Your initial post clearly stated your activities, so the advice was able to answer all of your questions. I don't know why you are asking them again thinking there is more information. At this point your anxiety is a bit of a mental health issue, so if you can't get rid of your hiv obsession, then you might have to see a therapist.
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