How High Is The Risk Of Hiv From Precum

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Precum risk

A couple of days ago I fooled around with someone I know that has slept around with a lot of women. We didn't get very far because he didn't have a condom. What worries me is he rubbed his penis against my vagina and he had a lot of...

Response from Ryan M. Kull, C.S.W

Columbia University's Health & Related Services

Any time HIV infected fluids (like semen or pre-cum fluids) come into contact with your mucous membranes (like the lining of your vagina), there is the possibility of transmission. The most common routes of sexual HIV transmission are through... Read more »

Is HIV possible through only Precum?

I'm a female and had unprotected sex for a few seconds on jan 1st. His penis did not go ALL... Read more »

Response from Shannon Southall »

Hiv and Precum

Hello DoctorOk, here is my story. I am a male who had unprotected sex with a guy on Jan 24th.... Read more »

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Precum and HIV

Posted by Anonymous

I got HIV at the end of August. I had unprotected sex with someone who told me he was "safe". The interesting thing is that he never came in me. There was only precum. In fact, he never came at all. The sad thing is, two weeks later I had sex... Read more »

How bad is pre-cum?

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

I was in a relationship with someone for 3 months. We talked about our histories before we had sex. He assured me that he did not have HIV cause he had just had a number of blood tests done (not HIV related) shortly before we were together. I... Read more »

Unsure about the risk level & precum! :/

Posted by ColorBee12, 1 Reply

I recently was engaging in foreplay with a friend and all is good until I decided to lick up his shaft and suck on the shaft and side of his dick.. his dick felt dry and had been exposed to air for at least 10 minutes.. however I do know that he had... Read more »

Oral sex with precum

Posted by cman3312, 2 Replies

Hi

about 2 weeks ago I met a 22 yearold gay latino man from culver city, ca (LA by the airport) on craigslist. He said he was "clean and safe" and we engaged in mutal oral sex WITHOUT ejaculation. I didn't see any sores or markes or rashes on his... Read more »

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