Love Bite And Hiv Infection

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Love Bites and HIV

Hi. Can you tell me the risks of transmission of HIV via love bites? Without biting through the skin, could love bites created by sucking the skin with the lips cause any transmission?thanks...

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

Columbia University's Health & Related Services

The person who is doing the biting is clearly at more risk for infection than the person being bitten. The person doing the biting may come into contact with infected blood, which is highly infectious, as a result of the activity. The person who is... Read more »

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SirI and my girlfriend have sex regularly(no penetration).Shehas little sadistic tendencies and... Read more »

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Love Bites and HIV

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

Can sucking on skin to produce Love Bites transmit HIV? Can the skin break by merely sucking hard on them?

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HIV from biting

Posted by Anonymous

Hi, I have a question. Am I at risk from biting someone? It was just a playful bite, not hard or vicious, but I accidentally bit a little too hard and a drop or two of blood oozed out. Could a few remnants of blood remained on my teeth and infected... Read more »

HIV Symptoms does not indicate HIV Infection

Posted by Anonymous, 3 Replies

I wanted to share briefly with everyone that just because you may have symptoms of HIV does not necessarily mean that you are HIV positive.

I would come onto this website everyday for hours and surf the web for the risks, symptoms, exposure rates,... Read more »

He/she is HIV+.......to love or not to love.

Posted by mandaree23, 10 Replies

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