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Just wanted to know if this a risk I need to be tested for
Hi,
I am a woman who received unprotected oral sex twice from a person I am seeing but who’s hiv status is unknown. He says he doesn’t have it but I don’t think he’s been tested recently. I feel like an idiot. I’ve read conflicting answers so I just wanted to know if I need to have an hiv test from these encounters. Is oral sex on a woman a risk?Like I said no vaginal or anal sex just received oral. I don’t know if his mouth was bleeding or anything but I doubt it. Not sure if it matters but I had shaved the area a couple hours prior.
Thank you so much for your time..
I am a woman who received unprotected oral sex twice from a person I am seeing but who’s hiv status is unknown. He says he doesn’t have it but I don’t think he’s been tested recently. I feel like an idiot. I’ve read conflicting answers so I just wanted to know if I need to have an hiv test from these encounters. Is oral sex on a woman a risk?Like I said no vaginal or anal sex just received oral. I don’t know if his mouth was bleeding or anything but I doubt it. Not sure if it matters but I had shaved the area a couple hours prior.
Thank you so much for your time..
Hello, you've been answered in this thread and previous threads as to what is and is not a risk. As you did not have a risk, we are now closing this discussion.
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You had no risk of HIV and are so safe that you don't need to test.
HIV is instantly inactivated in air and also in saliva which means it is effectively dead so it can't infect from 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 unprotected penetrating vaginal or anal sex or sharing needles that you inject with but you didn't do that so you had 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 genital 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 oral activities in 40 years of HIV history, so likely no one will in the next 40 years of your life either.
HIV is instantly inactivated in air and also in saliva which means it is effectively dead so it can't infect from 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 unprotected penetrating vaginal or anal sex or sharing needles that you inject with but you didn't do that so you had 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 genital 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 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 for your response.. it was just concerning to me because there is so much information out there on oral sex on men and the risks but I couldn’t really find anything on the risks of woman receiving it except one article that said it was possible..so I just wanted to know I had zero risk for sure
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