These two posts from a previous "safe DATY" thread are relevant here as well:
This is some information that was given to me by the Health Department in my city... some valid information, as far as risks of getting HIV .....
No Risk- abstention, dry kissing, body to body rubbing, massage,
nipple stimuation, using unshared inserted sexual
devices, being masturbated by partner without semen or
vaginal fluids, erotic bathing and showering, contact with
feces or urine on intact skin
Theoretical Risk- wet kissing, fellatio (blowjob, oral stimuation of
penis) with or without condom, cunnilingus
(oral stimuation of vulva and vagina), with
barrier (dental dam), anilingus, digital anal and
digital vaginal intercourse, with or without glove,
using shared but disinfected inserted sexual
devices
Low Risk- sharing non disinfected personal hygiene items (razors,
toothbrushes), cunnilingus without barrier outside
mestruation, fellatio and ejaculation with or without
ingestion of semen (blowjob with or without
swallowing), penile-vaginal intercourse with condom,
penile-anal intercourse with condom
High Risk- penile-vaginal intercourse without condom, penile-anal
intercourse without condom, coitus interruptus
(intercourse with withdrawl before ejaculation)
Hopefully this should clear some things up..... Goodgirl
My reply:
Anal intercourse without a condom is actually in a league/category of its own together with sharing hypodermics when it comes to high-risk activities! Why do you think AIDS exploded first in the gay community and has remained largely there? It's just a politically correct desire not to offend the gay community (an oppressed? minority) which has prompted the Toronto Health Dept. to lump vaginal intercourse in with anal as a risk category! The gay community lobbied furiously, and it would seem successfully, to get AIDS redefined from a gay affliction to a more general one precisely because they knew funding to fight AIDS would be more readily forthcoming if AIDS lost its perception of being a gay man's disease! I wonder what percentage of heterosexual AIDS transmission is actually due to the increasing prevalence of anal sex practices?
There are two reasons why AIDS is so readily transmitted by anal sex. The first is that the anus is not designed to accomodate a penis. The anus thus incurs numerous small tears during intercourse!!! The second is that anal tissue, unlike that of a vagina, actually absorbs fluid ,thus greatly facilitating HIV transmission!
Pagan
