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HIV risk massage anal grazing
I went to a massage center and was given a normal massage. No sex of any kind, not even a hand job. The masseuse did graze over my anus with her fingers - not to the actual crack but a half an inch up from the crack. I didn’t check her hands for cuts but I didn’t see any streaking so I would kind of assume there wasn’t any. My concern is my perianal skin. I don’t bleed down there, but I Read the skin around your *** crack can get abraded. I would know because I don’t generally look at. Hypothetically if she had a small amount of blood coming from her finger and it came in contact with irritated skin, would I be at risk for infection? Again, this is a big hypothetical - but I’m caught in World of what ifs and frankly I’m feeling guilty about this. About 4 weeks after I had a terrible itch on my right leg - I showed it to a dermatologist who said it looked like psoriasis - scaley and itchy. It lasted 4 weeks. No other symptoms. Am I paranoid? Was there really no risk here.
You had no risk and any HIV test would be a waste of time.
HIV 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 adult risks are the following:
1. unprotected penetrating vaginal
2. unprotected penetrating anal sex
3. sharing needles that you inject with. Tattoo is not an injection. Knowing these 3 are all you need to know to protect yourself against HIV. Your situation 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. The above HIV science is 40 years old and very well established so there is no detail that you can add that will make any of your encounter a risk for HIV. No one in 40 years of HIV history got HIV from the situation you are concerned about so it is unlikely that it will happen in the next 40 of your lifetime either.
You have psoriasis diagnosis, so work with the dermatologist.
HIV 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 adult risks are the following:
1. unprotected penetrating vaginal
2. unprotected penetrating anal sex
3. sharing needles that you inject with. Tattoo is not an injection. Knowing these 3 are all you need to know to protect yourself against HIV. Your situation 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. The above HIV science is 40 years old and very well established so there is no detail that you can add that will make any of your encounter a risk for HIV. No one in 40 years of HIV history got HIV from the situation you are concerned about so it is unlikely that it will happen in the next 40 of your lifetime either.
You have psoriasis diagnosis, so work with the dermatologist.
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