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No HIV risk with "proper use of condom"
Could some explain what proper use of condom means? This keeps coming up here.I had a few encounters with low end sex workers where I would pull the condom down as far as possible in order to try to prevent skin to skin transmitted stds from infecting the base of my penis. However, I left no room at the tip for semen. The condom was tight against my penis head. Condom did not break or fall off. I don't think this was a proper use of condoms. Did I leave myself with possible exposure risk? Thanks
Yes improper application of a condom can cause failure and in your situation eventhough you did not apply the condom correctly it did not fail
I understand it did not fail. You're saying that improper use alone such as I outlined is not enough to put me at risk as long as condom remains intact? But the danger is that improper use could cause the condom to fail(break or fall off)?
Your question was, "Could some explain what proper use of condom means? " You were given the link as to how to correctly use a male condom and that video explains it explicitly.
You said that the condom did not fail, so you never had an exposure and to make sure you don't have an exposure watch the video.
You said that the condom did not fail, so you never had an exposure and to make sure you don't have an exposure watch the video.
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