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Article: Small study says risk from oral sex is low. (HIV Digest).
- Article from:
- Men's Fitness
- Article date:
- April 1, 2003
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The chance of contracting HIV during oral intercourse may be lower than previously reported, according to a preliminary report published in the journal AIDS.
Current safer-sex guidelines indicate that oral sex without a condom is unsafe but low-risk. A recent study in San Francisco attributed as many as 8 percent of primary infections to fellatio, while a London study, published in the British Medical Journal, put the total at 6 percent. But early results from the new analysis documented no cases of HIV acquisition through orogenital contact, establishing an individual risk factor of zero.
That doesn't mean oral sex poses zero risk. Because of the ...