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Want to learn more about oral sex and the risk of STD (including HIV)
i know from the questions answered by the people in this forum prior to this one a few months back that hiv is not acquired through oral sex. I would appreciate if anyone could share some study resources or a journal of some kind i can read as further references. Thanks before to anyone answering this question.
If you really want to dig into the science got to a medical school library, or a good university library, and look into scientific reference material. You can get access to anything doctors read if you really want to. But you're going to find out that the answer has been provided to you, that in theory the virus exists and in the early days of HIV docs did worry it could pass through oral, but in all these years nobody has ever gotten it solely by engaging in oral sex. As you have been told, if you keep obsessing over it that won't make your life any better, so you might turn your attention to that part of you and work on that. Peace.
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Much appreciated. Sadly not many reputable university (if any) from where i came from just allow strangers to walk right in the university library. Still i thank you for your advice.
Your situation involves personal contact with an object in air ( lips, mouth, fluids, maybe blood etc.). No hiv worries, because you can't get hiv from personal contact except unprotected penetrating vaginal or anal, neither of which you did and you didn't share hollow needles to inject with which is the only other way to acquire hiv. Analysis of large numbers of infected people over the 40 years of hiv history has proven that people don't get hiv in the way you are worried is a risk.
HIV is a fragile virus in air or saliva and is effectively instantly dead in either air or saliva so the worst that could happen is dead virus rubbed you, and obviously anything which is dead cannot live again so you are good. Blood and cuts would not be relevant in your situation since the hiv has become effectively dead, so you don't have to worry about them to be sure that you are safe.
There is no reason for a person to test when they are safe. The advice took into consideration that the other person might be positive, so move on and enjoy life instead of thinking about this non-event. hiv prevention is straightforward since there are only 3 ways you can become infected, so next time you wonder if you had a risk, ask yourself this question. Did I do any of the 3? Then after you say "No, I didn't" then it's time to move on back to your happy life.
You are not a researcher so it is odd that you want to spend so much time analyzing 40 years old science literature that you will likely not understand about a fragile virus , instead of moving on and doing something fun with your life. It has been calculated that the odds are greater of a meteorite hitting you at your computer than of getting hiv from oral, yet you don't study that or any of the hundreds of other possibilities of disease or fatality that you face EVERY minute, so your priorities are misplaced.
HIV is a fragile virus in air or saliva and is effectively instantly dead in either air or saliva so the worst that could happen is dead virus rubbed you, and obviously anything which is dead cannot live again so you are good. Blood and cuts would not be relevant in your situation since the hiv has become effectively dead, so you don't have to worry about them to be sure that you are safe.
There is no reason for a person to test when they are safe. The advice took into consideration that the other person might be positive, so move on and enjoy life instead of thinking about this non-event. hiv prevention is straightforward since there are only 3 ways you can become infected, so next time you wonder if you had a risk, ask yourself this question. Did I do any of the 3? Then after you say "No, I didn't" then it's time to move on back to your happy life.
You are not a researcher so it is odd that you want to spend so much time analyzing 40 years old science literature that you will likely not understand about a fragile virus , instead of moving on and doing something fun with your life. It has been calculated that the odds are greater of a meteorite hitting you at your computer than of getting hiv from oral, yet you don't study that or any of the hundreds of other possibilities of disease or fatality that you face EVERY minute, so your priorities are misplaced.
Your question was answered last time that HIV is only transmitted by unprotected vaginal or anal penetrating sex or sharing IV drug needles. Air and saliva inactivate the virus. Doctors that have worked with our site that are experts in the field of HIV as well as expert opinion in general guide this answer.
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thank you GR. i know the risk as i have been told a numerous number of time by you and the others. And i fully understand it. But i was asking for a written source (journal etc.) for personal study and references (doesn't mean i don't understand your previous explanation). Nonetheless thank you for replying. much appreciated.
Read any question on such on the MH expert forum. The doctors there are very clear. Do you suffer anxiety? This oral sex worry of yours has been going on for a long time. I'd expect that if you can't believe reliable answers, you'd have tested to prove that you don't have HIV. Otherwise, you are caught in a worry trap making anxiety the disease you need to work on.
Same answer for heavy frottage (bare vagina rubbing against bare penis)??
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