Yesterday, I had an encounter with a female sex worker who tied me up and used multiple cat claw scratchers to play with my anus, penis, nipples, and many other parts of my body. These scratchers are similar to the one in the following link:

https://www.lovehoney.co.uk/bondage/electro-medical-fetish/pain-sensation-play/p/dominix-deluxe-cat-claw-skin-scratcher/a35648g65230.html

The sex worker wore multiple cat claw scratchers on her fingers to stimulate my penis, anus, nipples, and other body parts.

I have hemorrhoids that bleed from time to time, and I also have broken pimples on various parts of my body, including my scrotum.

My questions are:

2. If the rope was contaminated with HIV-containing fluids that were still active when the sex worker used it to tie me up, do I need to worry about HIV?

3. By reading other questions on this website, I find that you have repeatedly said that HIV is not transmitted through inanimate objects. Can I move on without HIV testing?

I can understand how your first (I assume) experience with such devices was a bit alarming. However, I see nothing to suggest that the events described were significantly risky for HIV or any other STD. To your specific questions:

1,2) These are different versions of the same question. Both assume a very unlikely scenario, that the scratchers or rope were contaminated with infectious HIV. As you have read previously on the forum, HIV does not survive drying; and it seems likely that the sex worker cleans them between uses with different clients. Even if not, there would be no significant risk. Even if they still were contaminated with fresh blood or genital fluids -- i.e. had been used with another client within a few minutes before you -- almost certainly not enough virus could be transmitted for infection to take hold. (Even when semen loaded with HIV is ejaculated into the vagina by unprotected sex, the risk the woman will become infected is around one in a thousand -- reflecting the scientific fact that it takes LOTS of virus exposure for infection to take hold.)

3) You correctly understand our previous comments.  Indeed I do not recommend you be HIV tested on account of the events described.

I hope these comments are helpful. Let me know if anything isn't clear.

HHH, MD