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Full contact nude lap dance with cut on finger, how risky was this exposure?

Hello, thanks for your help in advance.  My question is regarding an exposure I had about 7 weeks back.  I was at my bachelor's party and my friends took me to a strip club.  As expected they bought me some lap dances.  Unfortunately, this was a fully nude (stripper only, I still had my clothes on) full contact lap dance. I was totally wasted so I didn't really think much of it at the time.  The only problem is I had a cut on my index finger on my left hand about 4 days ago by scraping it against some metal siding in my trunk while cleaning my car.  The cut bled for a few hours but I put a band aid on it for a couple of days and took it off but forgot to replace it.  I am assuming the cut was somewhat scabbed over during these lap dances however it may still have been fresh but definitely no bleeding.  My concern is there is a possibility of fluids or blood being spread over the cut during the lap dances.  There was no fingering involved what so ever from me to them but they were rubbing against my hand during the dances while they were possibly fingering themselves (can't remember if they did as I was fairly drunk).  Also, it was dark so I couldn't see if the dancers had any cuts or scrapes themselves but it is a possibility.  Is this a high risk exposure.  I have been worried sick about this and haven't been able to sleep at all.  I did get a fourth gen test done at 3 weeks after exposure and 5 weeks after exposure.  Both were negative.  Also did a poc (third gen) test at 6 weeks after exposure which was negative.  Will do a final test at 3 months but the anxiety is killing me.  Also I have some weird symptoms such as rashes and a white tongue which is freaking me out.  Any advice and thoughts on this incident would be greatly appreciated.
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This answers all of your HIV questions, and if you can think of any more just reread about the 3. You had zero risk therefore  testing is irrelevant to your situation because you had zero risk. HIV is a fragile virus, which is instantly inactivated in air and also in saliva which means it is effectively dead so it can't infect from touching, external rubbing or 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 3 adult risks are the following:
1. unprotected penetrating vaginal with a penis
2. unprotected penetrating anal sex with a penis
3. sharing needles that you inject with.
The only way to get HIV is if you did one of the 3. The situation you describe is a long way from any of these 3.
Even with blood, lactation, cuts, rashes, burns, etc the air or the saliva does not allow inactivated virus to infect from touching, external rubbing or oral activities. Doctors have calculated the risk from what you describe to be less than that of being hit by a meteor, therefore no one will get HIV from what you did in the next 40 years of your life either. The above HIV science is 40 years old and very well established, so no detail that you can add to your encounter will change it from zero risk.
Your tests were a waste of time and it seems most people's tongues (including mine) are white because many negative people like you have written here about it.
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