Is Fingering Someone Considered Sex

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Fingering considered same as regular sex as per Doctor

I am hoping you can clarify this issue for me. After reading everthing I could here regarding fingering or mutual masterbation, it seems this is considered low risk.My doctor thinks otherwise. After engaging in mutual masterbation with a female lap...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hello,OK, my expert advice is quite simple: Find a more competent doctor! You are absolutely correct in your understanding that mutual masturbation carries a nearly non-existent risk of HIV transmission. Yes, I suppose extremely rare things can... Read more »

why don't sex and health advisor consider mental harm in masterbation?

Of course masterbation isn't harmful PHYSICALLY but why don't advisors ever seem to... Read more »

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unprotected oral sex, fingering risks

Hi doctor.2 weeks ago, I was in holidays in Cuba and had sex with a prostitute.We french kissed and... Read more »

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U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

California: Fremont School Board Considers Sex Education for Junior High Students

On Tuesday, the Fremont school board was scheduled to consider two sex education curricula for seventh- and eighth-grade students. Board members will study the programs, "FLASH" and "Teen Talk," amid rumors that some trustees want to remove sex... Read more »

India-Based Company to Begin Selling Female Condoms; Government Considering Subsidizing Them for Sex Workers

India-based Hindustan Latex on Friday said it will begin selling female condoms in the country next month to help curb the spread of HIV, the Associated Press reports. M. Ayyappan, managing director of Hindustan Latex, said the company initially... Read more »

Los Angeles County Health Officials Consider Regulations for Bathhouses, Sex Clubs

Los Angeles County public health officials have scheduled a meeting with the owners of area bathhouses and sex clubs to discuss options for strengthening HIV prevention efforts, the Los Angeles Times reports (Bernstein, Los Angeles Times ,... Read more »

Kenya Considers How PEPFAR Technical Guidance on MSM Squares With Laws Against Homosexuality

PEPFAR's recent release of its "Technical Guidance on Combination HIV Prevention " (.pdf) for men who have sex with men (MSM) "could force countries like Kenya who are strongly opposed to men having sex with men to backtrack," Nairobi Star... Read more »

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Is this consider safe sex

Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies

I'm positve and the other person is nagative. And the nagative person wanted to put his penus between my leg. And the positve person is laying face down on his stomach until negative person reached an orgasm. But I also pre-cum into my underwear. ... Read more »

fingering..

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

Hi everybody,

I had a sexual intercouse with a sex trader.. I used condom and there was no problem with condom. but I fingered her vagina and I bite my nails.. there was no scars on my finger but I'm just uncertain about if there could be some unseen... Read more »

Fingering & Kissing

Posted by sammehta77, 1 Reply

I had an exposure few days (5 days) back with lady whom I know but unaware of her HIV status.

1.Scenario No. 1 - I had kissed (wet) her with semi wide mouth open (not deep throat or French kiss), no visible sign of bleeding in my partners mouth nor... Read more »

Kiss, Finger, Lick - PLEASE READ!!

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

I met up with an old friend (girl) and I open mouth kissed this girl for a few (5?) minutes, and ended up "fingering" her for about the same amount of time. I have impacted wisdom teeth which do puss up at times, and my teeth aren't in the 'best'... Read more »

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