{"id":130,"date":"2007-06-25T09:29:19","date_gmt":"2007-06-25T08:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=130"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:17:24","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:17:24","slug":"i-had-sex-with-a-guy-who-came-in-my-mouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/130","title":{"rendered":"I had sex with a guy who came in my mouth&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, you can catch HIV from oral sex.<\/p>\n<p>The risk is pretty low, but some studies think perhaps up to 5% of cases of HIV may be from oral sex.<\/p>\n<p>If your partner does not have HIV, then the risk is zero.<\/p>\n<p>The low risk increases with two major factors:<\/p>\n<p>1. Whether you have any cuts, grazes, sores, bleeding gums etc. This gives any infection a route into your blood. Not brushing your teeth for at least two hours before oral sex (mouthwash is fine) is a long standing recommendation as brushing your teeth with cause your gums to bleed.<\/p>\n<p>2. The viral load of the HIV-positive person. Whether this is in cum or pre-cum, the amount of virus is a direct risk factor for transmission. This is highest during the first weeks or months of infection, and for many people this is when then do not know they are HIV-positive (and think they are still HIV-negative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had sex with a guy I hardly new. He came in my mouth and I swallowed his cum. We had unprotected sex several times for three months. Could I have been infected? I don&#8217;t know if he is HIV positive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-hiv-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24632,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions\/24632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}