Is Sex With Sex Worker Safe

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unsafe sex practices of sex workers & legality?

Hi Dr Bob, Well done on all the great work you've done into HIV / AIDS - I am sure you have touched many lives.I live in Australia. I'm a 25 yr old male who has never had penile vaginal sex without a condom. This has been for a number...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hey Aussie-dude,No worries mate! She'll be apples, as you downunder boys like to say.1.Assuming your latex condom was used properly and did not break, you would be protected. HIV cannot permeate intact latex. Consequently, even if the semen... Read more »

Worried about protected sex with sex worker

Dr Bob,Ive recently been travelling in Central & Southern Africa. I currently live in the UK... Read more »

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D. »

Oral Sex and Sex Worker

I recetnly had a HIV test, which was negative...however, about a month and a half earlier I... Read more »

Response from Ryan M. Kull, C.S.W »

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U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Oregon: Sex Workers' Advocacy Service Closes

After eight years promoting safe sex, needle exchange and clean, well-lighted strip clubs, the Portland, Ore., nonprofit Danzine is falling to a weak economy and shrinking public health budgets. Activist and exotic dancer Teresa Dulce, 31, started... Read more »

Indian Sex Workers Hone Their Art of Love From Kamasutra to Prevent AIDS

In India's eastern state of West Bengal, sex workers are studying the Kamasutra, the ancient Hindu treatise on sex, in an attempt to stem the tide of HIV/AIDS and other STDs. The nongovernmental organization Institute of International Social... Read more »

"Frontline/World" Episode Examines HIV/AIDS Among Sex Workers in India

PBS stations nationwide on Thursday are scheduled to air a segment on "FRONTLINE/World " -- a coproduction of WGBH Boston and KQED -- examining the thousands of HIV-positive sex workers in India and efforts to prevent the disease from spreading... Read more »

Canada: Van Patrol Helps Vancouver Sex Workers Access Drug Treatment -- Study

An outreach targeting female sex workers in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside is making inroads, a new study finds. Prostitutes who interact with the mobile van's staff of former sex workers are four times more likely to enter detox programs. The... Read more »

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Oral On Sex worker

Posted by Anonymous

I had protected sex with a sex worker, but I was dumb enough to give the girl oral for a couple minutes. I am freaking out big time. I have read that the chances of catching HIV via oral on a female is low, but I did have a couple oral cuts at the... Read more »

sex with massage worker

Posted by Anonymous, 3 Replies

I am worried sick. About 1 month ago,I had protected sex with an Asian massage worker here in the US. She used baby oil on the condom. This is so stupid. I feel like crying every day.I was unfaithful to my wife. I am so upset.I know I will have hiv... Read more »

sex workers?

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

Since retiring and being single. devorced for10 years.Me and a couple of budys travel to mexico and thailand and costa rica a few times a year. While in these countrys while relaxing we sometimes play on the wild side with some of the women. We... Read more »

Prostitutes vs.safe sex

Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies

Is there such a thing as safe sex with a prostitute?
Barring condom failure, should there really be a concern?

This is not a moral issue for me, it is a serious inquiry.
Background is I am a single father raising 2 children devoting my time to my... Read more »

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