{"id":19494,"date":"2022-04-20T23:07:33","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T23:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=19494"},"modified":"2026-04-01T15:54:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T15:54:56","slug":"my-boyfriend-took-off-the-condom-and-i-am-on-prep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/19494","title":{"rendered":"My boyfriend took off the condom and I am on PrEP&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there<\/p>\n<p>Sex should always and only be with the active consent of all the people involved. If you were not aware that he took off the condom (called stealthing), then this breaks your consent and could be rape and assault. (See this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/newsbeat-57618003\">article from the BBC<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>This doesn&#8217;t show that you can trust him or that he respects you in breaking your decision to use a condom.<\/p>\n<p>Although this doesn&#8217;t make anything right, you say that you already knew your boyfriend&#8217;s HIV status.<\/p>\n<p>Is there any chance that he also knew you were on PrEP (and that you would be protected)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I am in a new relationship with my boyfriend and we had sex 3 times with a condom but then he secretly decided to remove the condom while we having sex. He knew his status that he is HIV positive and did not tell me.<\/p>\n<p>The same day 45 minutes later I suggested that we go to the clinic to check the status. <\/p>\n<p>My question is should I leave him or how many risks I am facing in staying in this relationship with him? I am currently taking PrEP for preventing infection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,23,51,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-hiv-transmission","category-prep","category-support"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19494","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=19494"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26607,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19494\/revisions\/26607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}