gerri@watson.ibm.com (Gerri Oppedisano) (05/30/91)
Hi.. Yeah, I agree. I realize that the stomach's acidity killing AIDS virus is no reason to feel safe about oral sex but it is something I hear people throw out as some kind of feel-good fact. It's been argued that just the little bit of breakdown of foods in the mouth makes it hard for AIDS to survive. I agree, and I thought my note was clear on this, that there are plenty other ways one is susceptible through oral sex (i.e.cuts in the mouth) even if the above claims are true. What I was saying below is that there may be a smaller probability that one would have cuts/open soars in the mouth when giving oral sex as compared to lesions in the rectom from anal sex (for example). Personally, I don't bleed when I floss, but that's a great example of a common way one might gets little cuts in the mouth. gerri@ibm.com ****** The following is a COPY ***************************** Date: Wed, 29 May 91 14:43:35 pdt Reply-To: "Sci.Med.AIDS Newsgroup" <AIDS%USCVM.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU> Sender: "Sci.Med.AIDS Newsgroup" <AIDS%USCVM.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU> From: "Support Account for SCI.MED.AIDS" <aids%cs.ucla.edu@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU> Subject: (3205) Re: (3204) safty To: Multiple recipients of list AIDS <AIDS@USCVM> >From: MacPhil <IQTI400%INDYCMS.BITNET@mvs.oac.ucla.edu> Newsgroups: sci.med.aids Approved: phil@wubios.wustl.edu Subject: Re: (3204) safty Date: Wed, 29 May 91 14:39:04 EST Note: Copyright 1990 by Daniel R. Greening. Permission granted for Note: non-commercial reproduction. Archive-number: 3205 On Wed, 29 May 91 12:34:01 pdt Support Account for SCI.MED.AIDS said: >small cuts, etc..). Pretty reliably I've heard that the AIDS virus can not >survive the stomach's acidity, thereby implying that oral sex is fairly safe. >I think I'd only feel safe in saying that oral sex has a smaller possibility >for getting infected than some other form of sex which would have a higher >probability for blood-blood or semen-blood contact. > >gerri@ibm.com Whooooooaaaaaaa. I don't mean this to sound like I'm starting a fire, but acidity of the stomach does not seem to be the primary deterrent for contracting HIV. As has been mentioned by many on this list, there are plenty of opportunities for introducing fluids into the receiving body before the semen reaches the stomach; towit: open sores, mucous membranes, etc. Do you floss your teeth? Do your gums bleed then? If fluids can exit a portion of the body, they can almost always enter it too. More-or-less, extensions of the old credos: the more secure your house and harder it is for them to get in, the harder it is for you to get out. If they are within range of your guns, odds are, you are in range of theirs. ---------------------------------------------------------------- MacPhil iqti400@indycms.bitnet 1-800-972-8744 x40836 iqti400@indycms.iupui.edu <^>v Via SCI.MED.AIDS => AIDSNEWS gateway / aids@cs.ucla.edu