[Question #13979] Next steps

1 months ago

Hello, while out traveling over the past month I have had 4 encounters. I’m a male and they have all evolved other males. I always treat every encounter as high risk so I only do the following

Encounter 1. Mutual masterbation: our hands back and fourth touching each other,

Encounter 2: full body rub and than he gave me a hand job using oil

Encounter 3. Hand job using lube

Encounter 4. I gave a condom protected bj, he fingered me with a latex glove on and gave me a hand job.

I tried to keep body fluids to a minimum, curious if I’m at risk and need to test as I’m going home and I’m sure my partner will want to be intimate. I won’t be able to test before

I’m mostly worried about gon/clym

Thanks for your time

Edward W. Hook M.D.

1 months ago

Welcome back to the Forum. Thanks for your questions and your continuing confidence in our service. Congratulations as well on your continued practice of safe sex- this will continue to keep you from getting STIs, including HIV. Mutual masturbation is a no risk activity- that is the case even when partners get each other's secretions on one another and even if one of the partners has sores or abrasions- still no risk. Similarly, receipt of oral sex is a low risk event with no known risk for HIV even when unprotected; when a condom is used throughout the encounter and does not break, the oral sex becomes a no risk event as well (when condoms fail, it is obvious- if your condom was worn throughout the encounter and appeared intact at completion, it did not fail.

Nothing you describe suggests any need for testing or any reason to abstain from unprotected sex with your regular partner. EWH

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