{"id":3348,"date":"2010-11-20T21:31:42","date_gmt":"2010-11-20T21:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=3348"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:18:25","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:18:25","slug":"are-there-uk-guidelines-on-oral-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/3348","title":{"rendered":"Are there UK guidelines on oral sex?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guidelines are generally produced by medical organisations as a collection of current knowledge and best practice.<\/p>\n<p>In this sense they are only &#8216;guidelines&#8217; and don&#8217;t carry the official status that you are perhaps looking for.<\/p>\n<p>This document from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bashh.org\/guidelines\">British Association of Sexual Health and HIV<\/a> (BASHH) on use of PEP may be useful for you.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bashh.org\/documents\/58\/58.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">UK National Guideline for the use of post-exposure prophylaxis for HIV following sexual exposure<\/a> [published Int J STD &amp; AIDS 2006]<\/p>\n<p>These guidelines state that for the purpose of prescribing Post Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP), oral sex, even with an HIV-positive partner would not be seen as sufficiently high risk without ejaculation.<\/p>\n<p>The risk for one man to give oral sex to another man (ie if you are giving another man a blow job) is quoted at from 0 to 0.04% (reference 13).<\/p>\n<p>Although receptive oral sex perhaps accounts for 5% of HIV infections, these cases are usually explained by important co-factors:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>cuts or sores in the gums or mouth of the person giving oral sex (ie a route from infectious semen into the blood)<\/li>\n<li>very high viral load in the HIV-positive person (that makes cum or even pre-cum highly infectious compared to someone in chronic infection or who is on HIV treatment).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The risk for insertive oral sex (someone giving you a blow job) is likely to be zero because HIV is either not infectious in saliva or so unlikely to be infectious in sufficient quantities to efficiently be able to transmit. It is possible to invent potential risk situations &#8211; direct blood contact for example &#8211; but that is so remote from real life as to rarely have any practical relevance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could you please show me official UK guideline that says receiving oral sex or insertive oral sex is not risk at all?<\/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-3348","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\/3348","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=3348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24772,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348\/revisions\/24772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}