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A member asked:
If someone who is hiv positive performs oral sex on you (rimming) and has no clear signs of gum disease or bleeding, can you catch hiv?
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Very Very Unlikely: Risk on a whole with receiving oral sex is very low.And in the scenario you described it is even less.Saliva does not have HIV Virus.Only way it can be transmitted is if there is bleeding from gums or another part of oral cavity.Even that risk is very very little.Having said that you can never be 100% sure.
Answered 1/2/2016
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Condoms help: Oral-anal sex (rimming) has not been proven to transmit HIV, although large trial data is not available, so certainty is not assured. The practice does transmit hepatitis and parasites. Here is a site that gives advice on how to reduce risk for this practice. http://www.poz.com/articles/348_2128.shtml
Answered 1/2/2016
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Is it true that If you are receiving oral sex it does not matter if the person giving blow job has oral problem or bleeding gums and is hiv+ she can not transmit hiv to you unless u have genital sores or cut?
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