That report is misleading.
In UNcircumcized men, 2.5X more likely to contract HIV from infected F.
(way it's worded at present implies circumcision in females ...)
Cover it and it would be 100 percent!
Sheesh
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That report is misleading.
In UNcircumcized men, 2.5X more likely to contract HIV from infected F.
(way it's worded at present implies circumcision in females ...)
Cover it and it would be 100 percent!
Sheesh
Washing After Sex May Raise H.I.V. Risk
(from FoxNews)
By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN
Published: August 21, 2007
A study in Uganda has come up with a surprising finding about sex and H.I.V. Washing the penis minutes after sex increased the risk of acquiring H.I.V. in uncircumcised men.
The sooner the washing, the greater the risk of becoming infected, the study found. Delaying washing for at least 10 minutes after sex significantly lowered the risk of H.I.V. infection, Dr. Fredrick E. Makumbi reported on July 25 at an International AIDS Society Conference in Sydney, Australia.
The researchers do not have a precise explanation for the findings, which challenge common wisdom and the teaching of many infectious disease experts who urge penile cleansing as part of good genital hygiene. Health experts have suggested that washing the penis after sex could prevent potentially infectious vaginal secretions from entering the body through the uncircumcised penis.
Washing the penis after sex is common in Africa. To determine whether washing could be recommended as an alternative to male circumcision, Dr. Makumbi’s team from the Makerere University Institute of Public Health studied 2,552 uncircumcised men in the Rakai district of Uganda.
The men, ages 15 to 49, were uncircumcised and not H.I.V. infected when they enrolled. Eighty-three percent said they washed with all sex partners.
The researchers asked about when and how the men washed after intercourse at enrollment and 6, 12 and 24 months later, including whether they washed with or without cloths.
Because of a slip-up, the researchers did not ask details of how the cleansing was done or directly about using soap, said Dr. Ronald H. Gray, a co-author from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Some soaps used in Africa are more irritating than those used elsewhere.
Men who washed within three minutes had a 2.3 percent risk of H.I.V. infection compared with 0.4 percent among those who delayed washing for 10 or more minutes. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases paid for the study.
The washing analysis was a secondary part of a study undertaken to determine the effectiveness of male circumcision against H.I.V. infection. Earlier reports had shown that circumcision was protective.
One message from the study, Dr. Gray said, “is that there ought to be a little time left for postcoital cuddling before you go and wash.”
“Don’t just finish and jump out of bed,” he said.
Dr. Makumbi and other AIDS experts said they did not know why the washing practice increased vulnerability to H.I.V. infection, but offered various explanations. One is that the acidity of vaginal secretions may impair the ability of the AIDS virus to survive on the penis. Delayed cleansing — and longer exposure to the vaginal secretions — may then reduce viral infectivity.
Another is that use of water, which has a neutral pH, may encourage viral survival and possible infectivity.
H.I.V. apparently needs to be in a fluid to cross the mucosa to infect cells, Dr. Gray said. If the H.I.V.-contaminated fluid dries, its infectivity may decrease. Adding water could resuspend H.I.V. to make it more infectious.
The study findings are counterintuitive, said Dr. Merle A. Sande, an infectious diseases expert at the University of Washington in Seattle, and “show why you have to do the studies, because until you do them, you just don’t know.”
Dr. Sande, who was not involved in the study, said, “There is still so much we don’t understand about the complex factors that influence H.I.V. transmission in the genital tract, but this important study will help.”
He also is president of the Academic Alliance Foundation, a group that trains health workers to treat AIDS and other infectious diseases in Uganda.
Just wanted clarification that protected oral sex is pretty safe?
[QUOTE=Hank Reardon]Just wanted clarification that protected oral sex is pretty safe?[/QUOTE]
I have been getting BBBJ from an escort who swears she is clean. I can't tell just by looking and I've been under the assumption that unless the provider has visible sores, the chances of contracting anything are very slim. Everything else we do is covered. Am I playing russian roulette here or does anyone have any concrete information to shed some light on this. Guys are always posting on here about getting BBBJ from SW's and never any mention of getting an STD. My biggest concern would be to contract Herpes, since there is no cure. Anyone have any feedback on this, or on where I would find authentic information on this subject? Thanks guys.
BBBJ is not safe. When I went to Asia last year, I got BBBJ from several working girls. They all looked clean and I wore protection for the main course.
But I got LGV and had to be on antibiotics for 21 days. So I am very sure it was from BBBJ.
I was scared as hell thinking it was herpes. Luckily it wasn't. Hope this helps.
[QUOTE=SteveLee333]BBBJ is not safe. When I went to Asia last year, I got BBBJ from several working girls. They all looked clean and I wore protection for the main course.
But I got LGV and had to be on antibiotics for 21 days. So I am very sure it was from BBBJ.
I was scared as hell thinking it was herpes. Luckily it wasn't. Hope this helps.[/QUOTE]Can you please tell me what bbbj is?
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[QUOTE=Todd 1234]Can you please tell me what bbbj is?[/QUOTE]BBBJ = Bare Back Blow Job.
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[QUOTE=Hank Reardon]Just wanted clarification that protected oral sex is pretty safe?[/QUOTE]
I go covered all the time, but something I've always wondered about was the spit from providers. Some of them "slobber" so much that it runs down your balls and into your ass-crack. What are the chances of catching something from their drool?
From what I have read; infections can not be transmitted from saliva that is the HIV virus. It has to be contact with infected blood or bodily fluids. I take that to mean secretions that oozing stuff. Not saliva.
Here is some info pertaining to some of the risks of performing unprotected oral sex.
The risks go up the more sex partners you have, or the more sex partners your partners have had. Risks are higher if there are any sores, cuts, or abrasions in the mouth.
[url]http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/resources/qa/qa19.htm[/url]
[url]http://www.brown.edu/Student_Services/Health_Services/Health_Education/sexual_health/sti/oralsex.htm[/url]
[url]http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/70495.php[/url]
[url]http://www.stanford.edu*******SHPRC/ch4_ora.html[/url]
Play safe and stay healthy.
Use your best judement on the BBBJ.
Does she have bad teeth, sores, etc.?
[QUOTE=Glenn61]Once again, the Left wing is in action manipulating what the true facts are for it's own political gains....this is a significant point,,even if it does make some folks feel uncomfortable.......check out the article......G61
[url]http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,336749,00.html[/url][/QUOTE]Glenn,
I love your post this forum. Your exploits here are legendary and you are one of the true mongering icons in our hobby. However, you should get your facts straight about the so called, "liberal media."
I got same story you did from MSNBC, CNN, CBS, Yahoo News and even the ultra liberal Air America Radio. They included the black teen girl stats and everything. If you are relying on "fauxnews" for legitimate information, you need to look a little further. The news isn't as library slanted as Rupert Murdoch's news empire would have you believe.
Not trying to flame here. I have a lot of respect for you. It's just that people who are "fauxnew's" target audience are the ones who keep our "hobby" illegal and dangerous. If it weren't for that puritanical mindset, we'd be free to practice our mongering without the fear of having our cars impounded and faces on the local news.
Elliot Spitzer not included in my liberal fraternity. Take care my brother in "Mongerhood."
Anyone here had this infection, which begins like a spider bite and then turns into a boil with pus?
Can this be an STD?
ER Doctor told me is not STD, but I got my doubts, I always play safe and use cover all the time but can't protect the surrounding skin area if you know what I mean?
I never had any open cuts or any openings to catch a bug on my pelvic area, it's weird to me.
I had 2 boils infected and I'm taking some strong Antibiotics, right now I'm full of anxiety because I can't understand how I got this thing, also my ball pouch has very dry skin scaling or something!
BTW, ER doctor didn't take a culture he just looked at my boil and he told me is MRSA?
If someone here had these boils and suspected to be STD I will like to know your
experience.
[QUOTE=Glenn61]Boils have been around forever,,,they are even mentioned in the Old Testament.
I had a boil on the left side of my left knee when I was about 9 or 10,,I remember squeezing out massive amounts of puss daily. But in time it healed and that was that.
If you like to pick up street meat or let strippers grind against you in a club then you may contract the bacteria that causes a boil....simple as that.
It's a naturally occurring variety of bacterium in the soil and has adapted to humans over thousands of years starting with goat herders and today anyone can have it with no symptoms,,in fact there are usually no symptoms.
After the antibiotics,,,eat a healthy diet, exercise often and take nutritional supplements, avoid skin irritation like shaving too closely on your body and treat heat rashes with anti-fungal powder,get plenty of rest...and like Psoriasis,,it will not return.
[url]http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/mrsa/DS00735[/url]
[url]http://www.cdc.gov/Features/MRSAinSchools/#q1[/url][/QUOTE]
Thank you!:)
You gave me some peace of mind, I'm sure I'll be very careful from now on!
I wasn't aware of this bacteria going around in the U.S.
I guess most of us only worry about hiv, clamydia, herpes etc, but there are some nasty bugs you can catch by skin to skin contact,
This MRSA is supposed to be a hospital bug, so I got no clue how it got on me,
I didn't travel outside the country, and I'm very clean, and I never play Russian roulette with my health, you can't be 100% safe I guess.
Here's one for a good discussion. There is a relative 'newbie', 20 posts as I write this, on the Ohio boards bragging about being able to tell if a girl is clean or not just by looking at her. By clean he means not infected with a sexually transmitted disease.
He's [post=631252]siting[/post] some 'interesting' statistics and reading to justify his unprotected sex with street walkers.
I know there are mongers out there who for whatever reason don't use protection when having sex with a working girl. My two cents for you (plural) folks is this.
1. You're already infected and want to share the 'joy'.
2. You don't care about your health or that of anyone else.
Besides HIV/AIDS, there are numerous other STDs out there. Just looking at a girl provides no positive evidence on her health status. Yes, there are some signs to help avoid a potentially infected lady, but if she doesn't have any of those signs, does it mean she's "clean" and safe?
Perhaps the numbers appear to justify unprotected sex, but consider it this way. If the chance is 1 in 1000 of becoming infected, and the girl has just had sex with number 999, what are your odds now?
Hoho, if you want to quote statistics, what are the chances of becoming infected if you have unproteced sex with an infected person? Is it still 1 in 1000? Also, when was the last time you were checked and what were the results?
I support safe sex.