LifeLube: You got some in my eye!
Q: I had oral and jerk off sex with a guy. When he was coming and reached the climax, some semen got into my eyes… I used tissues and then tried to rinse it with water. Can this cause a possible HIV infection?
A: Thank you so much for your question. I’m happy to hear that you are educating yourself about different risks involved with sexual activity. To give a short answer to your question, yes, this is a possible risk for HIV transmission. Since the eye has a mucous membrane and since semen is one of the four bodily fluids that transmit HIV (the other three being blood, vaginal secretions, and breast milk), infection is theoretically possible. However, there are some important pieces of information that you can consider. There are relatively few HIV transmissions through fluid contact with the eye (most of those being medical providers that had blood spray into their eyes). It’s difficult to know, with semen in the eye, however, if a transmission occurred because of contact with the eye or because of other sexual contact (which often occurs before or along with the money shot to the eye).
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I had the same thing happen to me. Thanks for the advise! I was worried, too.