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Oral sex + semen in the eye
Hello,
i have performed oral sex on a a stranger male 14 days ago. He did ejaculate partly in my mouth and face, but a big drop of semen hit my open eye. The eye immediately started feeling like inflamed, and turned completely red. After few hours it turned back to normal, white colour and stopped feeling itchy.
My questions are:
1. Does this scenario suggest a risk for contracting HIV? And if yes is it a low or high risk?
2. Is it possible at all to get infected by getting semen in your eye? I know oral sex is kinda low risk activity, but what about the inflamed eye?
3. It has been 14 days for now without any symptoms, can i see this as encouraging factor or not?
4. Would you recommend to get tested, or just to move on and forget about this accident?
Thank you in advance
i have performed oral sex on a a stranger male 14 days ago. He did ejaculate partly in my mouth and face, but a big drop of semen hit my open eye. The eye immediately started feeling like inflamed, and turned completely red. After few hours it turned back to normal, white colour and stopped feeling itchy.
My questions are:
1. Does this scenario suggest a risk for contracting HIV? And if yes is it a low or high risk?
2. Is it possible at all to get infected by getting semen in your eye? I know oral sex is kinda low risk activity, but what about the inflamed eye?
3. It has been 14 days for now without any symptoms, can i see this as encouraging factor or not?
4. Would you recommend to get tested, or just to move on and forget about this accident?
Thank you in advance
You had no risk of HIV and are so safe that you don't need to test.
2. Oral is zero risk not what you characterized as "kinda low risk", and the world of difference between the two is why you are safe.
HIV is instantly inactivated in air (and also in saliva) which means it is effectively dead so it can't infect from oral or contact activities outside the vagina or anus. 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 unprotected penetrating vaginal or anal sex or sharing needles that you inject with but you didn't do that so you had no risk. Eye contact or oral is not penetrating anal or vaginal activity and has no risk. This sentence is all you need to know to protect yourself against HIV.
Even with blood, lactation, cuts, rashes, burns, etc the air or the saliva does not allow inactivated virus to infect from oral or air contact activities. The above HIV science is 40 years old and very well established so nothing you can add will make your situation a risk.
No one got HIV from air contact or oral activities in 40 years of HIV history, so likely no one will in the next 40 years of your life either.
2. Oral is zero risk not what you characterized as "kinda low risk", and the world of difference between the two is why you are safe.
HIV is instantly inactivated in air (and also in saliva) which means it is effectively dead so it can't infect from oral or contact activities outside the vagina or anus. 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 unprotected penetrating vaginal or anal sex or sharing needles that you inject with but you didn't do that so you had no risk. Eye contact or oral is not penetrating anal or vaginal activity and has no risk. This sentence is all you need to know to protect yourself against HIV.
Even with blood, lactation, cuts, rashes, burns, etc the air or the saliva does not allow inactivated virus to infect from oral or air contact activities. The above HIV science is 40 years old and very well established so nothing you can add will make your situation a risk.
No one got HIV from air contact or oral activities in 40 years of HIV history, so likely no one will in the next 40 years of your life either.
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Thank you very much for the detailed answer. It is highly appreciated and i will just move on.
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