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concern -pre cum in anal cut
Hello, thank you for taking the time to read and answer this. I will try to be very clear.
Recently I visited a transgender sex worker. About 1 hour before the visit I shaved around my anus hole. While shaving I caught the edge of my anus with the electric razor. It bled for a while and each time I wiped the blood away another large drop or two appeared. This continued for about 20 minutes or so and although it was by no means gushing it was consistently dripping. It had stopped before I met the sex worker and just looked like a Nick in the skin and not a very wide or deep cut. I assume the constant dripping earlier was due to the high amount of blood vessels in that area rather than the severity of the cut.
Before we had brief sex with a condom, the sex worker pressed the head of her exposed penis against my anus several times quite hard.
If the end of her penis touched my new cut and she had precum present, am I at risk of pre cum getting into the cut and HIV transferring into the cut and infecting me? Assuming of course a worst case scenario where the sex worker had HIV.
The cut did not require any medical attention and healed very quickly.
Would you recommend testing in this scenario?
Please let me know if you need any further clarity. Thank you
Recently I visited a transgender sex worker. About 1 hour before the visit I shaved around my anus hole. While shaving I caught the edge of my anus with the electric razor. It bled for a while and each time I wiped the blood away another large drop or two appeared. This continued for about 20 minutes or so and although it was by no means gushing it was consistently dripping. It had stopped before I met the sex worker and just looked like a Nick in the skin and not a very wide or deep cut. I assume the constant dripping earlier was due to the high amount of blood vessels in that area rather than the severity of the cut.
Before we had brief sex with a condom, the sex worker pressed the head of her exposed penis against my anus several times quite hard.
If the end of her penis touched my new cut and she had precum present, am I at risk of pre cum getting into the cut and HIV transferring into the cut and infecting me? Assuming of course a worst case scenario where the sex worker had HIV.
The cut did not require any medical attention and healed very quickly.
Would you recommend testing in this scenario?
Please let me know if you need any further clarity. Thank you
Your situation involves personal contact with an object in air (maybe blood, maybe cuts, maybe wound, semen touching wound, etc. ) . You will be happy to learn that you had no risk, because you can't get hiv from personal contact except unprotected penetrating vaginal or anal with a penis, neither of which you did and you didn't share hollow needles to inject with which is the only other way to acquire hiv - there are ONLY 3 ways to get hiv. Note that 2 of them require a penis and the third requires a hollow injecting shared needle - there are no OTHER ways to get 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 ANSWER "No, there wasn't a penis in an anus or vagina and I wasn't injected" you will know that it's time to move on back to your happy life.
No one got hiv from what you did during 40 years of hiv history and no one will get it in the next 40 years of your life either. You can do what you did any time and be safe from hiv.
The other person's status is irrelevant when you have no exposure to live virus.
If you still have questions about your risk, after reading all of the above, then it is because you didn't answer the QUESTION above.
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 ANSWER "No, there wasn't a penis in an anus or vagina and I wasn't injected" you will know that it's time to move on back to your happy life.
No one got hiv from what you did during 40 years of hiv history and no one will get it in the next 40 years of your life either. You can do what you did any time and be safe from hiv.
The other person's status is irrelevant when you have no exposure to live virus.
If you still have questions about your risk, after reading all of the above, then it is because you didn't answer the QUESTION above.
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Thank you for your swift and clear reply.
So i shouldn’t worry about cuts and precum in the future?
So i shouldn’t worry about cuts and precum in the future?
Reread about fragile, instead of skipping over the advice.
Sorry, I want skipping it. I just think I maybe hadn’t understood it correctly. If I have followed you now, even if the end of a penis with precum coming out touched an open cut directly then that is still considered exposed to air and therefore not infectious? Have I understood that correctly? If so, brilliant and thank you for your patience.
Reread again about the 3.
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