Ryan

I hope you can answer this because it is starting to bother me tremendously and is all I can think about. It has to do with symptoms after recieving oral sex. I came down with many symptoms fever,sore throat,etc... after getting a blowjob from a stripper at a party after she blew one of my friends minutes before. I did not notice any cuts or blood on me afterwards and I am circumsized( if that even makes a difference). Could I have been infected by her or by my friend? Have there been any cases documented at all that would fit into this situaution? I know a lot of people recieve oral from sex workers so are they also at risk from the person that the sex worker just got done with? I was told that this is not a risk because saliva kills hiv and that it is only transmitted in one direction as long as there is nothing crazy like biting. Please Mr. kull I know that this is long but I am to afraid to get tested and I just cant seem to get this feeling of doom out of my head.

There is no evidence that HIV transmission occurs when a person receives oral sex (has an HIV infected person's mouth on their genitals). Sexual transmission of HIV is known to occur during anal and vaginal sex, and less frequently to the person who performs oral sex (who puts their mouth on an infected person's genitals).

If the risk of transmission is theoretical only, it doesn't matter that the person performing oral sex on you was a sex worker. The odds for infection are negligible. Your penis coming into contact with HIV infected semen in another person's mouth poses a greater risk for infection than coming into contact with saliva alone (saliva does contain a component that inactivates HIV). However, since we don't see transmission occurring through receiving oral sex AT ALL, you remain at very low risk for infection.

RMK