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small_model • today at 4:53 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

Easy to pick it up


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peterfirefly • today at 7:02 PM

Not that easy unless you really try: shared IV needles and receptive anal sex without condoms (preferably repeatedly to really prepare the tissue). And you gotta find a willing donor who is not on modern HIV drugs.

MyelinatedT • today at 5:17 PM

Not really, in most cases! I read up on the per-exposure chances of actually picking up HIV a while back[1] and was shocked at how low the risk is, especially for heterosexual men (4 in 10,000 per-exposure; insertive vaginal sex with an infected partner).

Even in the highest-risk scenario (receptive anal sex) the risk is ~138/10,000 per exposure.

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6195215/

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geniium • today at 5:28 PM

I thought I was on Reddit for a split second