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Chances of condom failure
Thanks in advance to those community supporters who would answer my question.
A few weeks ago I engaged in intercourse with a female of unknown status. When I took the condom off, it looked fine (I only looked at it briefly). However, I'm now paranoid that there may be some breakage that went unnoticed like little tears of holes (as I've read via on other sites) and that may have allowed a route for HIV transmission. I didn't provide the condom so I don't know the brand of quality of it and since most things are made in China and India these days, I cannot be certain if breakage can be easily identified.
I only had 1 condom breakage in my life where basically the condom was nothing more than a band at the base of the penis. But are small hard to notice tears/holes possible? And can they be route for HIV transmission?
A few weeks ago I engaged in intercourse with a female of unknown status. When I took the condom off, it looked fine (I only looked at it briefly). However, I'm now paranoid that there may be some breakage that went unnoticed like little tears of holes (as I've read via on other sites) and that may have allowed a route for HIV transmission. I didn't provide the condom so I don't know the brand of quality of it and since most things are made in China and India these days, I cannot be certain if breakage can be easily identified.
I only had 1 condom breakage in my life where basically the condom was nothing more than a band at the base of the penis. But are small hard to notice tears/holes possible? And can they be route for HIV transmission?
COMMUNITY LEADER
Condom failures are too obvious to ignore (as the one you have seen yourself), There is no failure caused by pinhole or crack. Your protection remained intact and did not fail, therefore your risk never existed
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