Glad I could help. Take care. EWH
Dr Hook,
I truly appreciate your thoughtful reply to my question. Needless to say the emotionality associated with a situation can cause considerable (and often unnecessary) anxiety regardless of how familiar one is the data. It was for this reason I sort out the advice of a medical expert vs. a layperson. I will take your advice, refrain from testing, and move on to the more pressing issues in my life. Be well and thanks again!
Welcome to the Forum. As you have already noticed, unfortunately, you can get different assessments of HIV risk from different sources. The fact is however that all too many "official" sources choose to err on the side of conservatism (I suppose feeling they cannot “afford to ever be wrong) and use the sorts of estimates you mention. In reality, while I suppose that someday it might happen, there are no cases in which HIV has been documented to have been spread through receipt of oral sex. There are a few (2 or 3) cases in which HIV may have been acquired by persons performing oral sex (fellatio) on infected partners. Further, there are no instances in which HIV has been transmitted through mutual masturbation, even when saliva is used as a lubricant and even when participants get each other’s genital secretions on one another, including each other’s genitals. Thus, your experience is a NO risk event.
As for the possibility of HIV transmission were you to become infected, while I know of no such data for or against, I would suspect that genital secretions from sites other the testes or prostate could still transmit infection to another. As i said however, I am not aware of any data on this.
I hope this comment is helpful to you. Please do not worry about the exposure you describe. There is no reason for concern and no need for testing. EWH