HIV statistics and do people actually understand them.

[BostonBad]

Can someone give me some real advice? If I'm swallowing loads from girls from Eros what's the risk of getting HIV? I love ts women and I don't feel the sex act is complete unless I swallow the load. Please give advice people. Thank you.

[Stavros]

Can someone give me some real advice? If I'm swallowing loads from girls from Eros what's the risk of getting HIV? I love ts women and I don't feel the sex act is complete unless I swallow the load. Please give advice people. Thank you.

This is a quote from the San Francisco Aids Foundation website linked below-

"Can I get HIV from a blowjob? From giving head? From getting a BJ? Or from swallowing semen?

Oral sex is "low risk" in terms of getting HIV. There is no transmission risks for receiving oral sex. You probably will not get HIV from giving oral sex either—but having cuts or sores in your mouth, gum disease, having an STI in your throat, or recent dental work increases your risk. If any of these applies, you may consider refraining from performing oral sex to reduce your of exposure to HIV. If you're taking PrEP every day as prescribed, there's very little that you'll get HIV by giving someone a blowjob, or otherwise.
Remember, while the chance of getting infected with HIV from oral sex is very low, you can easily get other STIs such as gonorrhea and chlamydia."
http://sfaf.org/hiv-info/basics/can-...from-oral.html

[Ts RedVeX]

1) You take a group of men and ask them to have receptive anal sex with HIV-positive men and come up with probability of P1.
2) You take a group of men and ask them to have receptive anal sex with men who are not necessarily HIV-positive and you get P2=P1/3.
Does that not mean that every third man from the last group, where he did not necessarily have HIV, needs to have HIV? In other words, does that not mean there needs to be 3 times less HIV positive men in that group? (This is the bit that I don't get why you disagree with.) Again - provided that all conditions apart from the last group's people HIV status are the same. I also do not get what kind of people would agree to participate in such tests but I guess we had better skip that one. The way I see the universe is that you can only have C if you have H and you always have R and G because those two are the properties of the probabilities in question. So why use R and G at all if, being both of the tests' requirements, they are certain events?

[trish]

You have not proven your claim that :the table implies one of every three gays carries the HIV virus. I can only imagine your confusion lies in the fact that you've restricted the universe of discussion to only those gays who have anal-receptive sex and then you accidentally or deliberately ignore that restriction to make a claim about all gays.

[filghy2]

I can only imagine your confusion lies in the fact that you've restricted the universe of discussion to only those gays who have anal-receptive sex and then you accidentally or deliberately ignore that restriction to make a claim about all gays.

Actually, it's gays who have unprotected anal-receptive sex, so it's an even smaller subset. But this has been explained umpteen times already. And if RV was genuinely trying to understand the issue she would have looked at the source studies for the probability estimates, which are listed in the aidmap website.