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How to reduce oral STD risk from sex worker

For a man receiving oral from a female sex worker when no condom is used, are there methods that demonstrably reduce the chance of getting an STD? I'm looking at this from an engineering point of view (trying to put real NUMBERS to this question).

My idea is to:
1. Have the sex worker gargle vigorously for 30 seconds with Scope or something stronger. Please suggest something better than mouthwash, if it would be helpful.
2. After receiving oral sex (up to 30 minutes), rub lots of hand sanitizer of the penis, scrotum and pubic area.
3. Urinate soon and pee hard, to remove fluids from inside the urethra.

Would this do much to reduce the chances of contracting an STD or would it already be too late to prevent infection/transfer? Reducing a 0.01% chance to 0.009% isn't worth the bother, but reducing 5% to 0.5% definitely IS.

Also, would protecting the urethra during unprotected oral sex help much (such as using by applying a small round waterproof Band-Aid over the penis tip beforehand)? I couldn't find much about HOW the urethra is involved in catching an STD (most references indicate skin-to-skin, which begs the question about the safety of handshakes if a co-worker doesn't wash after peeing).

Finally, after reading DOZENS of forum posts, all I hear, overall, is that unprotected oral sex from a sex worker is "low risk", "generally safe sex" and other vague, numberless terms. I want NUMBERS!!! I can't find any overall risk statistics in terms such as overall STD infection rate per 1,000 unprotected oral sex events from sex workers. Do any such numbers exist? BBBJ (unprotected oral) is the number one request of clients and the number one offering of sex workers. In the hundreds of reviews I've read, I've NEVER read that someone caught an STD. Are my chances higher than 1 in 1,000? 1 in 100? 1 in 10? Let's see if we can quantify this clearly!

Note: I know that the HIV risk is effectively zero, based on a lack of substantiated cases and that Herpes is ubiquitous and not too much of a worry (we probably already have it), but I'm more concerned about the other STDs.
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Hi Vance. Any statistics available on my question? I think an answer to my question of risk per 1,000 events might go a long way to help many other posters to this forum reduce their anxiety levels. We already know the answer is "low risk", but that's extremely vague. Any numerical illumination would be very greatly appreciated! Thanks, in advance.
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Vance, thanks very much for the prompt reply. However, the maddening question still looms: WHAT IS THE ACTUAL RISK?!?!?!

You say use a condom "to reduce the risk". Fine. I understand. However, in statistical terms, are we talking about every tenth BBBJ from a sex worker, on average, results in catching something? Every hundredth? Every thousandth? No one ever seems to have a practical, numerical answer, based on actual statistics seen in the real world.

If 1,000 average guys in America visit a typical sex worker for unprotected oral (BBBJ), how many typically catch something? There's GOT to be some rough range of risk percentages, considering all the years of data collection and all study.

The typical answers I see online here of "low risk" and "oral sex is safe sex" are relative. Are we closer to the odds of being killed in a car accident or closer to the risk of playing Russian Roulette?

I think SO MANY of the men online here are begging for the same statistical understanding that never seems to be offered. There's GOT to be some reasonable scientific and statistical understanding of one of the world's most popular activities.

Thanks in advance to one and all for any numerical data that can be provided.
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What you have suggested would have zero effect. Either don't go to a hooker or use a condom. Only way to reduce the risk.
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