[Question #12896] Strip club private room experience

4 months ago

Hi doctors! First of all thank you for all the detailed answers to all of our questions and helping us being less anxious.

I’m married male from caucasus (Armenia) and 2 weeks ago I was in strip club and went to the private room. There was no sex not even mutual masturbaation. But what worries me that the stripper fingered her anus and vagina and then with than hand she touched my hand which had small bleeding wounds. I read many of your comments about such situations but need to ask for my case anyway:

1. should I be worried?

2. should I test for hiv and for other std you only for this event?

3. Have there been any cases where someone got infected with hiv by hand ganital to wound event?

4 months ago

I understand that in science there’re almost no zero risk events but is this the event that the risk lets say is lower than being struck by lightning or something like that so I can ignore and just move on?

H. Hunter Handsfield, MD

4 months ago

Welcome back to the forum. Thank you for your continued confidence in our services.

Although you did not ask exactly this question 5 months ago, you might have predicted the answers from that discussion. If there was no risk with actual vaginal sex, it should be pretty clear that fingering is risk free. There has never been a known case of HIV transmitted by fingering or other hand-genital contact, regardless of cuts or wounds on the fingers. And the large majority of female sex workers do not have HIV; or if infected, are on effective treatment that prevents transmission of the virus. To directly answer your three questions:

1. "should I be worried?" No, definitely not.

2. "should I test for HIV and for other STD...?" No, I would advise against any testing at all.

3. "Have there been any cases where someone got infected with hiv by hand ganital to wound event?" No, none ever known to have occurred.

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

HHH, MD

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4 months ago

Everything is clear.

The only confusion that I makes me anxious is reading some sources that hiv or std can actually be transmitted if there’s even a very small cut or wound. I understand that everyone can write anything they want but that sources appears in the first pages of search and seem professional sources.

But the only place and people I trust is where I ask my questions (askexperts)

H. Hunter Handsfield, MD

4 months ago

Even from professional or otherwise knowledgeable sources, most of them simply list all potential risks without qualifying based on how frequent or important they really are. If risks are listed without qualification, it's easy to assume having sex with a penile wound is just as risky as not using a condom -- which is nonsense. Having a cut or other wound might increase the risk slightly. But the actual increased risk almost certainly is near zero and no research suggests cuts etc actually raise the chance of infection. If the risk starts at say one chance in a million, and that risk is doubled by a minor cut, the chance of infection becomes one in 500,000 -- still zero for all practical purposes.---
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