An HIV positive guy’s guide to safer sex

An HIV positive guy’s guide to safer sex

Many of us worry about passing on HIV or becoming re-infected with a different strain of HIV. That worry might never go away completely. But you can have great sex without passing on HIV or becoming re-infected with HIV. Great safer sex starts with an understanding of the risks involved in sex.

Figuring out the risk of HIV transmission

When experts figure out the risk of passing on HIV during sex, they ask two questions:

1. Is there a potential that HIV can be transmitted from one person to another during a sex act?
   • An HIV positive man’s blood, cum, pre-cum and ass fluids can contain enough virus to infect another person with HIV.
   • Blood, cum, pre-cum or ass fluids that contain HIV must get directly into the other guy’s bloodstream.
   • Or the cells lining the inside of other guy’s ass, piss hole or mouth must absorb blood, cum, pre-cum or ass fluids that contain HIV.
2. Is there evidence that HIV has been transmitted from one person to another during that sex act?

Based on the answers to these two questions, experts have developed four different categories of HIV transmission risk for sex:

• High risk sex (potential for HIV transmission and evidence of HIV transmission).
• Low risk sex (potential for HIV transmission and evidence of HIV transmission under certain circumstances).
• Negligible risk sex (potential for HIV transmission but no evidence of transmission).
• No risk sex (no potential for HIV transmission and no evidence of transmission).

Condoms can prevent HIV transmission

Great safer sex starts with an understanding of the risks involved in sex.

Some gay guys, no matter what their HIV status, are tired of hearing about condoms. But condoms work. When they are used properly, condoms are the single best way to prevent HIV transmission when guys have anal sex or oral sex. Condoms can also prevent you from becoming re-infected with a different strain of HIV. And condoms can protect you against many other sexually transmitted infections (STIs).