can u get hiv oraly

[SheDragon]

also, you never know how things change. just the other day, i read in the newspaper that many things scientists and doctors believed back in the 80's when the epidemic started, is no longer believed today.
they did point out that people are living longer and longer and that they are able to control the disease alot easier.

 

[cwick0]

also, you never know how things change. just the other day, i read in the newspaper that many things scientists and doctors believed back in the 80's when the epidemic started, is no longer believed today.
they did point out that people are living longer and longer and that they are able to control the disease alot easier.

It is still known that gay men in San Fransisco are still the first known cases of it in the United States in 1980 or 81. There are possibilities that some of them may have contracted HIV in the late 70s. They have recently traced the virus to Monkeys in Africa through DNA research.

 

[mb2]

There is no reliable data that HIV can be transmitted orally - only speculation that an open sore, bleeding gums, etc., could permit infection.

Some years back, there was a study that turned up quite a few cases of infection through oral sex but followup interviews disclosed that the men had also engaged in anal sex. (That is part of the sampling problem -- finding men who only have oral sex.)

There seems to be less of a stigma attached to oral infection, so people like to make that claim. As I recall, the conservative pundit Andrew Sullivan claimed he was infected through oral sex. Then we later learned he was a devoted anal bareback bottom.