I sincerely apologize to ask this as a follow up to my Visting Strip club question that I asked yesterday. I am coming back for one last time regarding the same. In my previous question I mentioned about using my palms to press the strippers breasts thighs buttocks and butt cheeks. My palms skin  are generally a little rough and have callus. I got this because I go to gym. I didnot go this week but went last week. So my palms had this rough callus with tiny cracks and very small peeling. During the lapdance act or prior to that I didnot have any opening or cuts with blood or blood dried up. So given this situation of having small cracks or peels or having hangnails on your hands and u massage the strippers breasts buttocks/butt cheeks and thighs can remotely transmit hiv or any other STI to my palms and put me in risk. Please clarify. This will be my last question. Do I need to again and again worry on this non sexual incident. 

The point of Dr. Hook's replies is that there is never any risk of skin to skin contact with another person, even if s/he has HIV or other STD. Do not look for exceptions to that rule -- they don't exist. Skin wounds or "cracks" are among the hundreds of skin conditions that make no difference. Probably nobody in the world has ever acquired HIV or any STD from a lap dance of the sort you describe. You won't be the first. There is nothing else you will think of that would change the fact that you were not at risk, so don't bother to ask:  our replies will not change.

Don't let your guilt or shame over a decision you regret alter your objective thinking about STD/HIV risks. OK?

HHH, MD

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