HIV RISK FROM FINGERING AND TOUCHING PENIS SUPERFICIAL WOUND

[chi22]

Dear Dr,
I posted this on the community before but need more clarification. Your help is highly appreciated.
I had a 4days old superficial wound on my penis that is healing due to reaction to a product . I went to a strip joint and had a lap dance with my cloths on, no penis exposed.   During the dance, I fingered the girl lightly ( only about 1/4 of the pointer finger for like a minute and also squeezed the clitoris for like 2 minutes, deep and prolonged fingering not allowed). Few minutes after the dance, (maybe 2-4minutes, not sure exactly how long)  I went to toilet to pee. After the toilet, I realised that ooh, I had touched my penis/wound with the finger used to finger the girl a while ago. Not sure if the finger was dry.

Am I at hiv risk and do I need testing for this incident.
Many thanks for your usual help.

[Edward W Hook, MD]

Glad I could help. Take care. EWH

[chi22]

Thank you so much Dr. for your detailed clarifications. I also trusted the forum answer just wanted more clarifications which you did leaving no doubt.

Imagine a world without STI where simply plays remain simple.

[Edward W Hook, MD]

As you were told on the community site, and as I am confident you will hear when you receive an answer from the International Expert site, this was a no risk event- none at all for a number of reasons these reasons include:

1.  It is statistically unlikely that the dancer you described had HIV.
2.  Masturbation does not transmit HIV, including when one person's genital secretions get onto another person.  This is true even if a person has a cut or scrape that is contaminated with the secretions.
3.  HIV dies almost immediately when in contact with the environment (air, room temperature) and is non-infectious even before it is completely dead.
4.  There are no instances in which the transfer of infectious material from one person to another on someone's hands lead to  infection.
5.  Surface wounds and scrapes are not susceptible to infection. They "close off" and begin to heal almost immediately.   This is particularly true for a wound several days old.
6. Surface contamination of wounds does not lead to infection.

Thus for all of these reasons, this was ano risk event. There is no need for concern and no need for testing.  EWH